Data Center Terminology

Important Definitions.

What is a Data Center?

TIA 942:

-         Data center is a building or portion of a building whose primary function is to house a computer room and its support areas.

EU CoC for data centers:

-         The term ‘Data Center’ includes all buildings, facilities and rooms which contain enterprise servers, server communications, cooling and power equipment and provide some from data service.

Efficiency:

-         The ratio of the output to the input of any system.

-         Skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort.

Effective:

-         Producing the intended or expected result.

Resilience:

-         It is the ability to provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of faults and challenges to normal operations.

Redundancy:

-         The duplication of critical components of a system with the intention of increasing reliability of the system, usually in the case of a backup or fail-safe.

Availability:

-         The degree to which a system, subsystem, or equipment is operable and in a committable state of a mission, when the mission is called for an unknown, i.e., a random time.

Reliability:

-         The ability of a system or component to perform its required function under stated conditions for a specified period of time. It is often reported as a probability.