What components are included in a data center architecture?
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2024-04-16
Data centers store vast amounts of sensitive data to meet both their own operational objectives and customer requirements. Declining storage media costs have expanded the available storage capacity for data backups, whether on-premises, off-site, or in a hybrid model.
A data center is a facility that employs sophisticated networking, computing, and storage systems to provide shared access to applications and data. The existence of industry standards for data center power distribution systems helps in the design, construction, and maintenance of data center facilities and infrastructure, thereby ensuring data security and availability.
Data Center Architecture Components
Computing, storage, and networking are the three primary component types used in data centers. However, in modern data centers, these components represent only the tip of the iceberg. On the surface, the infrastructure supporting the data center’s power distribution system is critical to an enterprise data center’s ability to meet its service-level agreements.
Data center computing
The building block of a data center is the server. In edge computing architectures, the processing and memory resources used to run applications on these servers may be virtualized, physical, distributed across containers, or distributed across remote nodes. General-purpose CPUs may not be the optimal choice for addressing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads; therefore, data centers must deploy processors that are best suited to these tasks.
Data center storage
Data centers house vast amounts of sensitive data to meet both their own operational objectives and customer requirements. Declining storage-media costs have expanded the available storage capacity for data backups, whether on-premises, off-site, or in a hybrid model. Advances in nonvolatile storage media have further reduced data-access latency. Moreover, like other software-defined solutions, software-defined storage technologies enhance workforce productivity by streamlining the management of data-center storage systems.
Data Center Network
Cabling, switches, routers, and firewalls are all examples of data center network equipment that connect servers to one another and link servers to the external world. When properly designed and orchestrated, these components can handle high volumes of traffic without compromising performance. A typical three-tier network topology comprises a core switch at the data center edge—responsible for connecting the data center to the Internet—and an intermediate aggregation layer that bridges the core layer with the access layer, which hosts the servers. Thanks to innovations such as hyperscale network security and software-defined networking, modern data center networks deliver cloud-scale mobility and scalability.
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