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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
Microsoft Azure, or just Azure (/ˈæʒər, ˈeɪʒər/ AZH-ər, AY-zhər, UK also /ˈæzjʊər, ˈeɪzjʊər/ AZ-ure, AY-zure), [5] [6] [7] is the cloud computing platform developed by Microsoft. It has management, access and development of applications and services to individuals, companies, and governments through its global infrastructure.
Microsoft today announced its plans to launch a new data center region in Austria, its first in the country. With nearby Azure regions in Switzerland, Germany, France and a planned new region in ...
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 ...
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.
Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service offered by Microsoft.It is designed to provide high availability, scalability, and low-latency access to data for modern applications.
The lights-out [45] data center, also known as a darkened or a dark data center, is a data center that, ideally, has all but eliminated the need for direct access by personnel, except under extraordinary circumstances. Because of the lack of need for staff to enter the data center, it can be operated without lighting.