Data Center (DC) is a building that provides an operating environment for centrally placed electronic information devices, including host rooms, auxiliary areas, support areas, and administrative management areas.
A data center is a room, building, or group of buildings used to accommodate back-end computer systems, without user interface and cooling capabilities, physical security, network equipment, and other supporting systems. Remote data centers provide power for all cloud infrastructure.
Data centers can expand their operations or storage beyond physical facilities by using private or public clouds. When you need to run larger workloads, virtualized data centers can use servers located at remote locations.
Due to the dense concentration of servers, data centers are sometimes referred to as server farms. They provide basic services such as information storage, recovery, and backup information management, as well as networking.
Almost every enterprise and government agency needs their own data center or access to third-party facilities. Some companies build and operate servers internally, while others rent servers from hosting facilities. In contrast, others still utilize public cloud based services provided by hosts such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Network Services.