Hosted service provider

A hosted service provider (xSP) is a business that delivers a combination of traditional IT functions such as infrastructure, applications (software as a service), security, monitoring, storage, web development, website hosting and email, over the Internet or other wide area networks (WAN).[1] An xSP combines the abilities of an application service provider (ASP) and an Internet service provider (ISP).

This approach enables customers to consolidate and outsource much of their IT needs for a predictable recurring fee. xSPs that integrate web publishing give customers a central repository to rapidly and efficiently distribute information and resources among employees, customers, partners and the general public.

Hosted Service Providers benefit from economies of scale and operate on a one-to-many business model, delivering the same software and services to many customers at once. Customers are charged on a subscription basis.

## Contents

* 1 Services offered
* 2 History
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Services offered

As defined by analyst Ovum.

* Repeatable business process-led services shared among several clients
* Remotely delivered application services using shared resources
* Infrastructure services (both remotely managed and/or hosted services spanning data centre services, managed servers and databases, performance monitoring, security services, storage services and business continuity)
* Web hosting- the provision of infrastructure and application services to support the hosting of Web sites.

## History

Hard Corps, Inc., formed in December 1999 claimed the moniker 'xSP' and began using it in commerce prior to others.[2]

## See also

* Web servers
* Managed services

## References

1. ↑ "The 3-step plan to make your website harder to hack". Pcworld.com. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2945835/the-3-step-plan-to-make-your-website-harder-to-hack.html. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
2. ↑ "Hard Corps, Inc. on the Wayback Machine". archive.org. http://hardcorpsinc.com:80/. Retrieved 20 Nov 2002.

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