All businesses, small or large, depend on data centers. Answer the following questions related to data centers: Define data centers in terms of hardware, software, networks, and client-server architecture/networks What is the relationship between a business firm\'s MIS infrastructure and a business firm\'s data center. What are the implications of cloud computing for data centers? How are SAAS, PAAS, and IAAS related to a firm\'s MIS infrastructure? Solution Data Centers : Its a place of hosting number of system and their related components. Datacenters in terms of hardware, software, networks, client server architecture- could be defined as physical components present collectively like caes, connectors, power supply units, keyboard, mouse, audio speaker. Basically all the physical component that group up and come up a large server to support applications running on it and handle the load.These server as the clients to host the incoming and outgoing traffic to an application like consider a bank system which has complete running website which constitue of the software part will be having numerous amount of incoming request where simultaneously muliple user will be hitting the system at once so the server(present in data center) should be able to handle so many request which will require proper network system, CPUs etc to server it..