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A Hosted Service provider owns data-centre space (with power and cooling) and infrastructure (servers, storage, networking) and effectively rents their use out for its customers. An alternative is for the hoster to provide data-centre space, power and cooling - and for the customer to simply locate their own infrastructure there. This is called co-location. With both options, the hoster may also provide services to manage and operate the infrastructure.

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Cloud

Clouds

Cloud Computing is a term which has come into fashion over the past few years. It means different things to different people and is used so broadly that it can be hard to make sense of exactly what it is. There is debate as to whether "Cloud" is even a new phenomenon or just a new name for a trend in IT which has been happening for many years - namely to think of IT as providing services - rather than consisting of a system of hardware and software solutions.

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