But instead of trying to own all the computing equipment for hosting online computation and storing data, however, Ooyala relies massively on Amazon's Web Services products.
A business can either buy the equipment or share "hosted" equipment that resides in the service provider's offices.
The North Face, the outdoor apparel and equipment company, hosted dealers and business partners at a Squaw Valley resort near Lake Tahoe in California late last year.
Colocation - is leased space within a secure off-site data center where customer owned servers and network equipment are hosted.
It said more than 100 churches had expressed an interest in hosting wireless equipment.
But you don't necessarily need advanced equipment, you could host it (for a small donation) in a back garden on a clear evening and lay on some hot chocolate.
The equipment used to host the algorithms and do the tests was a microcomputer having an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 (2.33 Ghz) processor, a DDR 2.4 gigabyte principal memory on a 250 gigabyte hard disc, SATA standard, transfer rate of 3.0 Gbit/s and 7,200 rpm (rotations per minute).
But in his new job as chief executive of Loudcloud, he is quite comfortable with it.Mr Andreessen is in the business of integration, meaning that his firm assembles all the pieces needed to build a web application the hosting facility, the equipment, the software, the network connections and makes sure that everything is secure and runs well.
The site provides cast amounts of data on different car models and equipment, with the aim of hosting the "most up-to-date dataset in the industry, containing over 5,000 car models and trims and about five million equipment configurations".
This cost analysis does not include the initial outlay on equipment, with our department now hosting two CE-MRA capable units and three multi-slice CT scanners in line with the general demand for these modalities, which represents a significant investment.
