Why should we integrate services, servers, and networking in a data center?

Computer Communication Review

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 111-117

  Costa, Paolo ^a   Zahn, Thomas ^a   Rowstron, Antony ^a   O'Shea, Greg ^a   Schubert, Simon ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data centers; Direct connection networks; Internet services

Indexed keywords

BASIC PRINCIPLES; BLACK BOXES; DATA CENTERS; END POINTS; INTERNET DATA CENTERS; INTERNET SERVICES; LOWER COST; MICROSOFT; NETWORK TOPOLOGY;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SERVERS;

INTERNET;

EID: 77954329981     PISSN: 01464833     EISSN: 01464833     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1592681.1592699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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