A data center is a data processing center, a facility used to house an information system of associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems where they generally include redundant or backup power supplies of a typical data center project that offers Space for hardware in a controlled environment, such as conditioning the space with air conditioning, extinguishing the ignitions of different safety devices to allow the equipment to have the best level of performance with the maximum availability of the system.
A data center offers you several levels of resistance, in the form of Backup power sources and additional communication connections, which may not be used until there is a problem in the primary system where the main objective of a data center project is run the core business applications and store operational data, where it offers the most traditional applications that is the corporate software system such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
The most common components are firewalls, VPN gateways, routers and computers, database servers, file applications, web and middleware, all in physical hardware or in consolidated and virtual platforms.
Data center is used internationally to measure the efficiency of the terms of energy that is offered for all facilities compared to the energy used by ICT equipment, and offers a rate of efficiency, the ICT equipment can consume 800Kw, and the systems of cooling consume another 800Kw.
