datacenter
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datacenter
A facility that holds servers and related network equipment. The many thousands of servers employed by search engines and cloud computing providers are all housed in datacenters. Datacenters for...
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Definition: datacenter
A facility that holds servers and related network equipment. The many thousands of servers employed by search engines and cloud computing providers are all housed in datacenters. Datacenters for a company's internal systems often include a data library for offline storage, as well as a control section that accepts work from and releases output to user departments. The systems programming function may also come under datacenter jurisdiction. See server farm, darkened datacenter, datacenter container and NOC.
The Datacenter
Even if servers are distributed within the departments of a large organization, datacenters are generally used to centralize enterprise-wide services.
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