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Data centers are networked collections of computers that provide the computational resources for web-hosting, e-commerce, grid and cloud computing and social networking in a centralized location. Generic service platforms for this purpose include Sun’s Grid Engine, Google’s App engine, Amazon’s EC2 platform and Microsoft’s Azure platform. In the following we largely follow the excellent treatment
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Robertazzi, T. (2012). Data Centers. In: Basics of Computer Networking. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2104-7_9
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