Today's technology enabled business with its competitive environment poses a number of challenges for enterprise in the form of managing digital data, deploying complex applications across wide corporate networks, 24/7 monitoring of data to ensure its security and safety from cyber threats.

1. Data Centers and Their Dedicated Hosting Services
Today's technology enabled business with its competitive environment poses a number of challenges for
enterprise in the form of managing digital data, deploying complex applications across wide corporate networks,
24/7 monitoring of data to ensure its security and safety from cyber threats. The rapidly changing economy also
challenges enterprises to manage retention of loyal customers, increase the market presence as well as manage
their human resource. To meet all these challenges and to gain maximum advantage of the latest technology
enhancements the enterprises outsource the services of data centers from developing countries.
Most of the small and medium enterprises make use of internet data centers offered by various service providers
while large enterprises either shift their IT infrastructure to their own data centers or make use of data centers
from the service providers. These third party internet data centers offer their clients hosting services which
includes both shared hosting as well as dedicated hosting services. Studies on the IDC market showcases India is
the first country that provided cost-effective services to meet requirements of both large and small industries.
Gartner also estimates 31% growth in the total data center capacity in India and touch nearly 5.1 million sq ft.
However, though the captive market across the major cities will show growth of CAGR 16%, the third party data
centers because of its cost-effectiveness in terms of availability power, skills, real estate and maintenance will
find a greater market growth.
Wikipedia defines dedicated hosting service, dedicated server or managed hosting service as a “ type of internet
hosting in which the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone else.” Unlike the shared hosting
services, dedicate hosting service is more flexible and offers the clients control of the servers, operating systems
and the hardware. Further, dedicated servers being housed in data centers, provide redundant power sources
offers clients benefits such as high performance, security and email stability. Nevertheless, by delivering both
dedicated hosting services as well as shared hosting helps enterprises to address the restraints and ensures
business continuity requirements.
The leading data center service providers promises the clients unlimited computing power through their dedicated
hosting services besides offering them a highly secure and cost effective environment for the dedicated servers.
Further, with the team of experts manning the data centers 24/7, the clients are assured of complete support to
troubleshoot the server performance issues irrespective of the time and platform. The other advantages include
automated backups, data restoration as part of business continuity solutions besides customized alerts and root
cause analysis.
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