- A company that provides space on private or shared servers that hold and provide information and services for access through the internet for its users small and large.
- These companies can have facilities (Data Centers) that fit under a desk or cover the entire inside of a mountain.
- Hosting companies and their Data Centers they can hold their resources in one location or spread it over many geographical location (Co-location) for safe keeping and continuance of operations for high availability entities such as hospitals, banks, stock exchanges and governments.