Glossary

The term redundancy has several meanings. In a data center, redundancy means that there are two or more infrastructures or systems for high reliability areas,…

A supercomputer is a computer that is able to perform extremely complex operations – up to several thousand trillion operations per second. In comparison, a…

Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) is one of the indicators used to measure a data center’s sustainability. WUE is calculated by taking last year’s total water…

Hardware is the physical components you find in a server, computer, mobile phone or other IT-equipment. Examples of different hardware Examples of different hardware include:…

EN 50600 is a European standard that deals with important elements within the building and structure of data centers. The standard includes: The EN 50600…

Web Hosting is an older concept that describes something being stored or hosted on a server connected to the internet. Traditionally, this has been a…

Data center uptime refers to the time a data center is operational and available to users. This means that the system works as it should,…

A Server Hotel is an older term for a data center or server room, which is a building or room specifically designed to store large…

Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is a measurement used to assess the energy efficiency of a data center. PUE is defined as the ratio between the…

A server rack (also known as a server stand or server cabinet) is a computer cabinet, specifically designed to organize servers and network equipment. Server…