a big room where many servers are kept and watched
a building, or part of a building, which offers a professional environment for running computer servers
a highly secure building that houses thousands of computer servers and requires specialized climate controls, fire suppression, redundant power supplies and massive Internet connections
a physical building where servers are located at and modified to occupy servers
a place where servers are provided as a service of web, email, db, or game hosting to the outside world
a specially designed building with a large Internet connection
Also called a NOC (Network Operations Center), a datacenter is a physical center from where networks are managed. Typically, a datacenter has hundreds or even thousands of Web servers with multiple connections to the backbone, and power backup systems.
(also referred to as NOC (Network Operations Center)) A physical center from where networks are managed. Typically, a datacenter has hundreds or even thousands of Web servers with multiple connections to the backbone, and power backup systems.
This is the term for a secure, managed network environment which may house tens or thousands of Web servers with power backup and high-speed connections to the Internet Backbone. Datacenters usually have a mixture of OC-3 and DS-3 connections, or higher (i.e., OC12, OC48, OC 192), and may also have a hard-line connection to a high-speed overseas data trunk (like Global Crossing).
