4.2. ISPCompany and its new business application
ISPCompany offers two types of services:
Mail serving and Web serving: infrastructure server consolidation of clients' low-utilized servers. (See Figure 4-3.) ISPCompany can put up to several hundred of these servers on one mainframe and can save substantially on overall cost. There is no need for stand-alone machines and their respective cables.
Figure 4-3. ISPCompany infrastructure server consolidation
Outsourcing: complete or partial hosting of other companies' computer systems on the mainframe. ISPCompany offers a spectrum of services that ranges from supplying the bare iron through providing ...
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