A data center is a physical place where a large number of computer servers, power, applications, and such other equipment and resources are kept to centralize the IT operation of organizations. It plays the pivotal role in the continuity of daily operations of organizations.
Whereas, a data center architecture is the physical and logical layout of the equipment within a data center facility. It’s considered as a blueprint for designing and deploying a data center facility. A data center architecture a layered process that offers guidelines in the development of a datacenter.
A data center architecture determines the overall physical arrangements of the server, storage, racks, networking and other resources. Besides, it spell out how these resources/equipment will be interconnected and how the physical and logical security workflows are placed.
Generally, a Data Center Architecture Incorporates:-
- Datacenter Network Architecture
- Datacenter Security Architecture
- Datacenter Computing Architecture
- Datacenter Physical Architecture
- Datacenter Information Architecture