Storage Service Provider

What Does Storage Service Provider Mean?

A storage service provider (SSP) is a type of service provider that builds, operates, manages and delivers a comprehensive storage infrastructure to store third party data. A SSP may be further classified as an online storage service provider, virtual storage service provider or cloud storage service provider.

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Techopedia Explains Storage Service Provider

SSPs host specialized storage resources available for total access over the Internet through a website, network application and/or application programming interface (API)-based access. Generally, a SSP has a facility that consists of a very large storage infrastructure or storage area network (SAN) that is logically assigned and distributed across one or more end users or enterprise. Each user is assigned a specific or desired storage capacity that may be scaled, depending on requirements. A SSP provided storage capacity may be used for various consumer or business needs, such as data backup, data recovery, sharing and collaboration, as well as with other applications.

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