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learn-pr/philanthropies/understand-purpose-evolution-datacenters/includes/4-datacenters-components.md

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|Physical infrastructure|- **Racks and Enclosures**: Physical frameworks to house servers and storage devices.</br>- **Raised Floors**: Allow cabling and cooling systems to run beneath equipment.</br>- **Buildings and Facilities**: Purpose-built structures designed for security, scalability, and environmental control|
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|Security systems|- **Physical Security**: Includes surveillance cameras, biometric access controls, and security personnel.</br>- **Cybersecurity Tools**: Firewalls, intrusion detection systems, encryption, and endpoint security.|
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|Management and monitoring tools|- **Datacenter Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Software**: Provides visibility into physical and IT resources.</br>- **Monitoring Systems**: Track performance, power usage, and environmental conditions.</br>- **Automation Tools**: Enable efficient resource management and predictive maintenance.|
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|Software|- Software is a critical component of a datacenter, but its role differs from that of physical infrastructure. Software provides the intelligence and control needed to manage and optimize datacenter operations.</br>- Unlike physical hardware (servers, racks, power systems), software is intangible and often modular, meaning it can be updated, replaced, or reconfigured without affecting the datacenter’s physical layout.</br>- While hardware provides the foundation, software is what makes the datacenter functional, flexible, and efficient. Software orchestrates and manages the hardware components (servers, storage, and networking). Without software, the hardware in a datacenter would be static and non-functional.</br></br>**Types of software critical to datacenters**</br> - **Operating Systems (OS)**: Enable servers and devices to run applications and manage resources.</br>- **Virtualization Software**: Allows multiple virtual machines (VMs) to run on a single physical server, optimizing resource usage.</br>- **Datacenter Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Software**: Monitors and manages physical and virtual resources, including power, cooling, and server workloads.</br>- **Networking Software**: Manages traffic routing, load balancing, and network security.</br>- **Storage Management Software**: Oversees how data is stored, accessed, and backed up.</br>- **Automation and Orchestration Tools**: Facilitate routine tasks, resource provisioning, and scaling.
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|Software|- Software is a critical component of a datacenter, but its role differs from the physical infrastructure. Software provides the intelligence and control needed to manage and optimize datacenter operations.</br>- Unlike physical hardware (servers, racks, power systems), software is intangible and often modular, meaning it can be updated, replaced, or reconfigured without affecting the datacenter’s physical layout.</br>- While hardware provides the foundation, software is what makes the datacenter functional, flexible, and efficient. Software orchestrates and manages the hardware components (servers, storage, and networking). Without software, the hardware in a datacenter would be static and nonfunctional.</br></br>**Types of software critical to datacenters**</br> - **Operating Systems (OS)**: Enable servers and devices to run applications and manage resources.</br>- **Virtualization Software**: Allows multiple virtual machines (VMs) to run on a single physical server, optimizing resource usage.</br>- **Datacenter Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Software**: Monitors and manages physical and virtual resources, including power, cooling, and server workloads.</br>- **Networking Software**: Manages traffic routing, load balancing, and network security.</br>- **Storage Management Software**: Oversees how data is stored, accessed, and backed up.</br>- **Automation and Orchestration Tools**: Facilitate routine tasks, resource provisioning, and scaling.
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## Early computing (1940s - 1950s)
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**Mainframes and Early Computing:** The first "datacenters" didn't exist in the modern sense, but large mainframe computers were housed in controlled environments to handle data processing. These mainframes were typically stored in research facilities or corporate locations.
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- In the 1940s, the concept of data center was developed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. Eckert and Mauchly were the primary inventors of the ENIAC computer, which was the world's first data center, built in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania in the US. However, the ENIAC was very different from the data centers we have today.
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- In the 1940s, the concept of data center was developed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. Eckert and Mauchly were the primary inventors of the ENIAC computer, which was the world's first data center, built in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania in the US. However, the ENIAC was different from the data centers we have today.
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- Example: IBM 701, one of the earliest commercial computers, was installed in university and corporate facilities in the 1950s.
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**Challenges:**
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|Equinix (Founded in 1998)|- Equinix is often regarded as one of the first companies to establish large-scale, commercial datacenters designed for interconnecting different organizations' networks. It was founded during the dotcom boom and became a leader in datacenter interconnection and colocation services.</br>- Equinix opened its first datacenter in Silicon Valley in 1999, and it quickly expanded with other locations across the U.S. and globally. They provided secure, reliable hosting for the rapidly growing internet infrastructure and began offering colocation services, where businesses could rent space to house their own servers.|
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|Equinix (Founded in 1998)|- Equinix is often regarded as one of the first companies to establish large-scale, commercial datacenters designed for interconnecting different organizations' networks. It was founded during the dot-com boom and became a leader in datacenter interconnection and colocation services.</br>- Equinix opened its first datacenter in Silicon Valley in 1999, and it quickly expanded with other locations across the U.S. and globally. They provided secure, reliable hosting for the rapidly growing internet infrastructure and began offering colocation services, where businesses could rent space to house their own servers.|
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|Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Compaq|- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), founded in the 1950s, was a key player in the development of early data storage and computing infrastructure. In the 1990s, DEC's systems were used in some of the earliest commercial datacenters.</br>- Compaq, after acquiring DEC, also played a significant role in providing server and storage solutions used in commercial datacenters that powered the growing internet.|
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|Yahoo! and AOL (Early Web Hosting Centers)|- During the dot-com boom, companies like Yahoo!, AOL, and others began building their own datacenters to support their rapidly growing user bases and web traffic. These early datacenters were crucial in providing email services, web hosting, and search engine operations.</br>- Yahoo! established one of the first large-scale, high-performance datacenters to handle the increasing traffic demands from its growing web portal.
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