
Data center networking What is data center networking?
Data centers are facilities that house critical applications and data such as servers, networking routers and switches, storage systems, firewalls and more. A data center’s design is based on a network of computing and storage resources that enable the delivery of shared applications and data.

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Data centers explained
Data centers are facilities that house critical applications and data. A data center's design is based on a network of computing and storage resources that enable the delivery of shared applications and data. Servers are, of course, a major form of data center infrastructure, but this category also includes things like networking routers and switches, storage systems, and firewalls, as well as server racks, redundant power sources, and cooling devices.
With the rise of virtualization, containerization and cloud services, data centers are increasingly becoming more software defined where infrastructure is virtualized through abstraction, resource pooling, and automation to deliver Infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS).
Software-defined infrastructure lets IT administrators easily provision and manage physical infrastructure using software-defined templates and APIs to define and automate infrastructure configuration and lifecycle operations.