If you are in it, you may remember the first time you entered into a real data center-not just a servant wardrobe, but the actual high floor Data centerWhere the door opens in an explosion of cold air and noise and faces rows and rows of shelves, homogeneous and gray, stuffed with servers with cooling fans that scream and weaken them like madness. The data center is the place Wonderful things It is – pizza boxes, blade servers, numbers and two floors. Some of its residents are more strange – Large iron With all its huge forms, from the Z series to SuperDome and all the points between them.
For decades, the databases were the skilled hearts of many companies – the secretly fortified rooms where huge amounts of capital are located, and electricity turns preoccupation into revenues. Sometimes they are a place to hide, too – it is a kind of permanent joke, whenever you do not want to see it in the pursuit of information technology, the best bet to avoid communication is just a badge in the data center and waiting for it to come out. (But, ah, I never did so. I promise.)
But the past few years have witnessed a tremendous transformation in the relationship between companies and their data – and the places where these data live. Certainly, it is always comfortable having your own servers and storing them, but why do you link all the capital when you do not have to do so? Why not only go to the cloud buffet and pay the price of what you want to eat and nothing more?
There will always be a reason for some companies to have data centers – the cloud, despite their attractiveness, cannot do everything. (Not yet, at least.) But the list of objections to getting out of your computing needs is shrinking quickly-and we will talk a little about what comes after that.
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