What does "IDC" mean?

The meaning of IDC 1: Internet data center is abbreviated as IDC. It means that the company that owns the server puts the server in the data center, which is what we usually call server leasing and hosting and other related businesses! The second meaning of IDC: Internet data center (IDC for short) refers to the establishment of a standardized telecom professional computer room environment by telecom departments using the existing Internet communication lines and bandwidth resources, providing enterprises and governments with all-round services such as server hosting, leasing and related value-added. By using IDC server hosting service of telecom, enterprises or government units can solve many professional needs of using the Internet without setting up their own special computer rooms, laying expensive communication lines or hiring high-paid network engineers. The main application scope of IDC host is website publishing, virtual host and e-commerce. For example, a company can publish its own www website and widely publicize its products or services through the Internet after assigning a static IP address to the Internet through a hosting host. Virtual host is a unit that rents out the massive hard disk space of its own host through hosting host, provides virtual host service for other customers, and makes itself an ICP service provider; E-commerce means that an organization establishes its own e-commerce system by hosting a host computer, and provides perfect services to suppliers, wholesalers, distributors and end users through this commercial platform. IDC: As the company name, it refers to International Data Corporation. A world-renowned professional provider of consulting, consultancy and event services for information technology, telecommunications industry and consumer technology market. Market tracking data in IT field has become an industry standard. IDC officially set up a branch in China on 1982. Is the first world-renowned market research company to enter the China market. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG (International Data Group). IDG is also the first American venture capital company to enter China. The Xiong Xiaoge you often see comes from IDG in China. Internet data center. It develops rapidly with the continuous development of the Internet. It has become an indispensable part of China Internet industry in the new century. Provide large-scale, high-quality, safe and reliable professional server hosting, space leasing, network wholesale bandwidth, ASP, EC and other services for Internet content providers (ICP), enterprises, media and various websites. At present, IDC does not have an authoritative definition, but it has a deeper connotation than the traditional data center. With the continuous development of the Internet, it has developed to provide large-scale, high-quality, safe and reliable professional server hosting, space leasing, network wholesale bandwidth, ASP, EC and other services for ICP, enterprises, media and various websites. Data center appeared in the mainframe era, which was to provide management and maintenance of mainframe for enterprises by hosting, outsourcing or centralized way, so as to achieve the purpose of professional management and reduce operating costs. IDC is used for hosting. It is the infrastructure for the safe operation of various e-commerce modes, and it is also a platform to support enterprises and their business alliances, their distributors, suppliers and customers to implement value chain management. IDC has two very important and distinctive features: its position in the network and the total network bandwidth capacity. Like backbone networks and access networks, IDC constitutes a part of basic network resources, and it provides a high-end data delivery service. Provide high-speed access service. IDC originated from the demand of ICP for high-speed network interconnection, and the United States is still in the leading position in the world. In the United States, in order to protect their own interests, operators set the bandwidth of network interconnection very low, and users should put a server at each service provider. In order to solve this problem, IDC came into being to ensure that the servers hosted by customers have no bottlenecks when accessing from various networks. IDC is not only the center of data storage, but also the center of data circulation, and should appear in the place where data exchange is most concentrated in the Internet. Along with it, people put forward higher requirements for host and virtual host services. In a sense, it evolved from the server hosting room of ISP. Specifically, with the rapid development of the Internet, the demand for the bandwidth, management and maintenance of the website system is increasing, which brings severe challenges to many enterprises. Therefore, enterprises began to hand over everything related to website hosting services to IDC, which specializes in providing network services, and concentrated on the business of enhancing core competitiveness. It can be seen that IDC is the product of a more detailed division of labor among Internet companies.