{"id":9760,"date":"2012-12-11T11:54:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/server-room\/"},"modified":"2012-12-11T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:54:53","slug":"server-room","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/22017\/server-room","title":{"rendered":"Server Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_server_room_mean\">What Does Server Room Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A server room is a room used to store, power and operate computer servers and their associated components. This room is part of a data center, which typical houses several physical servers lined up together in different form factors, such as rack mounted, or in tower or blade enclosures. A data center might consist of several server rooms, each of which is used for separate applications and services.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_server_room\">Techopedia Explains Server Room<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A server room provides the operational and environmental components and services to operate enterprise class servers. Generally, a server room might include 10 to several hundred servers. The servers housed in a server room usually include basic CPU components and lack any display or input device. They can all be centrally accessed and managed through a server administrator system, which is typically found outside the server room. <\/p>\n<p>Server rooms are primarily used for executing enterprise applications that require massive computing resources at run-time, such as banking software, search engines or social networking applications. 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