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In cloud computing, an availability zone is a subset of an IT infrastructure system that shares no service-critical components (including power, cooling and access) with any other availability zone. Availability zones are typically geographically separated from one another, to prevent local disasters from acting on more than one availability zone.
They are widely used in the data center, ISP and cloud computing industries as part of the engineering design for high availability systems. The standard data center tiers are: [1] Tier I: no redundancy; Tier II: partial N+1 redundancy; Tier III: full N+1 redundancy of all systems, including power supply and cooling distribution paths
A landing zone is an environment that is made available by cloud computing companies. It is the environment in which the actual workloads run in. [1] Landing zones are available for Microsoft Azure, [2] Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. Amazon has also provided educational landing zones to universities, so students could practice with the ...
A 40-foot Portable Modular Data Center. A modular data center connected to the power grid at a utility substation HP Performance Optimized Datacenter, model 240a. A modular data center system is a portable method of deploying data center capacity. A modular data center can be placed anywhere data capacity is needed.
Data center asset management (also referred to as inventory management) [22] is the set of business practices that join financial, contractual and inventory functions to support life cycle management and strategic decision making for the IT environment.
A data center is a pool of resources (computational, storage, network) interconnected using a communication network. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A data center network (DCN) holds a pivotal role in a data center , as it interconnects all of the data center resources together.
Columbia Data Center is Microsoft's data center in Quincy, Washington. Property at Quincy was purchased in 2006; the building opened in April, 2007; [3] and the data center reached operational status in May, 2007. [4] It was said to be the largest data center in the world as of 2015. [5]
In a software-defined data center, "all elements of the infrastructure — networking, storage, CPU and security – are virtualized and delivered as a service." [2] SDDC support can be claimed by a wide variety of approaches. Critics see the software-defined data center as a marketing tool and "software-defined hype," noting this variability. [3]