Objectives of knowledge management

Selecting hosting providers
While it is possible for companies to manage their own services by setting up web servers 
within their own company offices, or to use their ISP, it is common practice to use a specialist
 
 Service- oriented 
architecture
A service- oriented 
architecture is a 
collection of services 
that communicate with 
each other as part of 
a distributed systems 
architecture comprising 
different services.
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Managing digital business infrastructure
hosting provider
to manage this service. For example, Rackspace (www.rackspace.com), is 
one of the largest providers of managed servers and cloud services for corporate businesses. 
According to their site, they have delivered enterprise-level hosting services to businesses of 
all sizes and kinds around the world since 1998 and had grown to serve more than 205,000 
customers by 2014. They were rated a leader in hosting by analysts Gartner (2013) who 
reviewed the capabilities of different hosting providers.