Definition of Computer Center

Example of customer service, with access to a computer center.

A computer center or data center (in English). It is usually a fairly large room where data of any kind is stored. Data that is then processed to produce statistics and to meet the needs of a particular clientele. As an example, you could put a hospital. When the patient is admitted, the doctor applies a treatment. However, he has to know if the person admitted has any type of allergy to any medication. To find out, go to your terminal computer and write the name of the patient that appears in the computer center or data center. There the doctor can see the clinical history of the patient to be treated, therefore he already knows the drugs that he does not tolerate and acts accordingly.

Today computer centers are very common. There is, for example, what is called, database. This term is used when the data pertains to a small and medium-sized company. The data is processed by the employees of the company itself to serve its customers. An employee can know, when an order comes in, how much money this person has spent in a period of time.

A computer center handles a lot of data and this cannot be to stock on ordinary computers. It takes something called servers. Servers are cpus or computers that are always on. This makes it easy to access the data at any time.

A service provider Internet it is also a computing center. Has to manage, all the people who connect and who have permission to connect. Computer centers tend to have staff at all hours, especially technicians in computing in charge of maintenance of the servers to be able to fix any breakdown that may arise.

Typical example of a computer center. This is accessed from the company or from outside with user permission.

The location of these computer centers is sometimes a secret and the personnel who work in these centers are obliged by oath not to reveal their location. Unauthorized access to a computer center can lead to danger to the users who contracted the service with the company or entity that owns the computer center. This is due to the fact that among the data stored by these centers there are numbers of bank accounts and credit cards of users. that can be used without the permission of their owners, thus causing an embezzlement in user accounts registered. Embezzlement for which the company or entity that owns the computer center would be responsible. The normal thing in cases of attacks (or data leaks) to this type of center, is that someone from within facilitates the access or that it is the same employee who removes the data, without the company managers or entity.

We have a particular case of a computer center attacked in the case of Edward Snowden who took thousands of data from the NSA or the National Agency for Safety In U.S.A.