Data Centers

Question 1

What is a data center?

Answer 1

A physical facility where enterprise organizations deploy their IT Infrastructure

Question 2

What are the key components of a data center?

Answer 2

Data centers comprise of compute servers, networking equipment and storage systems.

Question 3

What is an enterprise data center

Answer 3

A DC that is operated and owned by individual companies to meet their needs for internal applications, data storage and processing

Question 4

What is a colocation data center?

Answer 4

These facilities provide space and power for companies to rent and house their own infrastructure

Question 5

What is a Cloud data center?

Answer 5

Operated by hyperscalers like Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP on a pay as you go basis.

Question 6

Why are data centers important?

Answer 6

DCs are important because they store & run mission critical and business critical data / applications

Question 7

What are mission critical applications?

Answer 7

A collection of application resources that must always be available, resilient to failures and underperformance.

Question 8

What are some examples of mission critical applications?

Answer 8

Point of sale systems, CRM and ERP apps and payment software