"Users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."
- Tim Berners-Lee
A data center (DC) is a facility where an organization hosts all of its data and applications. This facility provides a means of centralizing the applications, thus providing better control over the management of the applications and the server infrastructure. Centralizing the important data and applications also simplifies the security of data and applications as the network administrators can focus on a single facility rather than discrete servers spread across the organization. The DC has evolved from the early days of computing to become highly flexible and scalable. The emergence of the cloud has also influenced the DC design and scale. In this chapter, we will discuss...