Data center classification and IDC service provider classification

As the core IT infrastructure for data collection, storage and processing, data center has entered the fast lane of development.

As an important means of production, in the classification of data centers, there are several key data centers that are crucial to social and economic development, and they are the following categories:

Government data Center GDC

Enterprise Data Center EDC

Internet Data Center IDC

Financial data Center FDC

These data centers are related to the lifeblood of the national economy, and have to be protected and managed, especially the digital management and control of U-level assets such as servers, and should form a unified industry standard to implement it, so that asset security management and control can be placed in the first place of operation and maintenance.

In addition to protecting the assets of the data center, its service providers are also crucial to IDC, which is related to all aspects of society. At present, the classification of IDC service providers is more systematic, and the industry development is also more mature. The following is the content of IDC service provider classification.

Basic telecom operators: China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom.

These three operators have a large number of infrastructure resources, and have a monopoly advantage in backbone network bandwidth resources and Internet international export bandwidth. Basic telecom operators provide Internet bandwidth resources and computer room resources to professional IDC service providers, cloud service providers and industry customers.

Third party IDC service providers: 21Vianet, Halo New Network, Netsuku Technology, GDS, Pengbos, etc.

These service providers mainly provide customers with cabinet rental, bandwidth rental, server agent operation and maintenance services.

Cloud service providers: Ali Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Baidu Cloud, Jinshan Cloud, Qingyun, UClould, etc.

Cloud service providers can provide services such as cloud hosting, cloud storage, bandwidth, CDN and industry-specific solutions to various customers.