A data center is a facility composed of networked computers and storage that businesses and other

organizations use to organize, process, store and disseminate large amounts of data. A business
typically relies heavily upon the applications, services and data contained within a data center,
making it a focal point and critical asset for everyday operations.

Extended Operation and Autonomy During a Crisis

Definition of Data Center

Availability and Cost of Power and Water

Water and Water Quality

Data Protection

DataCenter Objectives Site Selection and Risk Factors – Knowing Where to Build
Enterprise data centers Different areas to be covered
when setting up a datacenter
These are built, owned, and operated by companies and are
Geopolitical Ownership Considerations
optimized for their end users. Most often they are housed on the
High availability
corporate campus.
Global Risk Issues

Managed services data centers Local Laws, Codes, Taxes and Tariffs
DataCenter Types
These data centers are managed by a third party (or a managed
services provider) on behalf of a company. The company leases the Data Center Qualified Personnel
equipment and infrastructure instead of buying it.
Support Issues for Equipment

Colocation data centers

In colocation ("colo") data centers, a company rents space Expected and Unexpected Conditions

within a data center owned by others and located off

company premises. The colocation data center hosts the
infrastructure: building, cooling, bandwidth, security, etc., Plan
A basic data center brings together servers, storage subsystems, network switches, routers,
while the company provides and manages the components, firewalls, and of course cables and physical racks to organize and interconnect all this IT equipment.
including servers, storage, and firewalls. Data Center Composition

Data portection laws Location

Cloud data centers Email and file

In this off-premises form of data center, data and applications are sharing
hosted by a cloud services provider such as Amazon Web Low Natural desaster Location
Services (AWS), Microsoft (Azure), or IBM Cloud or other public Location of DataCenters

cloud provider.
Productivity
High connectivity covered Location applications
Why are data centers important to
business
Customer
relationship
management
(CRM)

Enterprise resource planning

(ERP) and databases

Big data, artificial intelligence,

and machine learning

Virtual desktops, communications

and collaboration services