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it's 3:00 in the morning and you can't sleep so the natural response is of

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course to bust out your phone and waste some time on Reddit get to swiping on

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tinder or blow a few more dollars on that freemium game that's quickly

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becoming a real problem and luckily for

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you all of these services work without a hitch because they're all being provided

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to you from huge data centers that are expected to be reliable no matter how

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many people are connected or what time of day it is but how do they stay

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running with almost no downtime well our

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friends at IBM sponsored this video to tell you guys all about it and it starts

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of course with having facilities and computers that are purpose-built to

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handle lots of incoming connections now

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although some services have their own data centers many others who either

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don't need or can't afford a dedicated facility or need additional capacity

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actually rent server space and processing time from a larger companies

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a strategy called colocation data centers are typically made up of lots of

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servers sitting in racks to maximize how many machines can fit into one bit of

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floor space but of course setting up a data center is a lot more complicated

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than just throwing a bunch of servers into a warehouse and calling it a day

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larger data centers hold so much equipment that they are actually built

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to be sturdier than your average building to accommodate all the extra

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weight from these large racks of servers some of them are so large that the

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workers inside are even given small vehicles like scooters or bicycles so

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they can get around and troubleshoot issues more quickly also those servers

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generate a ton of heat so elaborate

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cooling systems including water chilling are often employed additionally data

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centers are often laid out to be more efficient for example servers will

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usually either face toward each other or

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directly away from each other to create what are called corridors of hot air

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that can be pushed out more easily but

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when there's an environmental hazard that isn't can huge problems can result

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for example a few years ago Facebook actually had weather in the form of

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clouds inside one of its data centers which caused some of the equipment to

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short out so humidity control can also

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be very important for larger operations some servers are even designed to

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withstand even more serious hazards like earthquakes using braces and extra floor

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mounting so of course data centers are protected with advanced physical and

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human security but what about the more technical challenges well aside from

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encrypting it data is often kept safe by spreading the processing and storage

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across multiple locations rather than

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having them just on one single machine in one place to make this simpler

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servers are very often virtualized meaning that one physical server can be

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seen as several different systems this is incredibly useful because it allows a

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much greater number of tasks to be performed by one server and that's

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really important for colocation so as long as each virtual machine is

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separated well enough from the others this can even bolster security load

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balancing is another technique that ensures that servers are being used

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efficiently I mean you don't want a situation where some of the servers are

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getting slammed with requests and extra

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processing while others are sitting idle like that kid who contributed nothing to

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your group projects back in school so instead servers are often configured to

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have their workload and their data balanced more evenly between them this

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prevents overloading of certain machines and bottlenecks this is also often done

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automatically in cases where one server might need to be taken down for

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maintenance so that whatever it was working on can just be picked up by

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other servers in a similar vein redundancy is a critical feature of any

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modern data center copies of data are usually kept on multiple servers or even

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across multiple data centers and these facilities often have multiple pipelines

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leading out to the public Internet in case one Internet service provider has a

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problem so all this means that enterprise-grade data centers are

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designed for at least 99.999 percent uptime which works out to

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about five minutes of time offline per

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year some of them are actually even more reliable than that and while websites

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and online services do obviously go down sometimes it really is amazing how much

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has gone into making sure that we can access nearly anything nearly any time

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like if only everything in your life was that dependable right again this video

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is brought to you by IBM did you know that resiliency is the most important

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facet of your data center I mean you can have all the speed performance and

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features in the world but if your servers are down who cares IBM Z has the industry-leading

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resiliency needed to ensure that your bottom line doesn't suffer from planned

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maintenance or unplanned downtime your whole data center could go up in flames

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and your recovery could happen without a hitch when it comes to continuous

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availability IBM Z customers achieve five and six nines so that's ninety nine

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point nine nine nine and ninety nine point nine nine nine nine percent or

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greater uptime and they say the smaller IBM Z footprint can essentially replace

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as many as 100 servers so reduced downtime scaled to support large

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workloads and get peace of mind with IBM Z the leader in data center technology

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