Exodus runs the business parks of the digital age.
Now Exodus is moving to manage the world's e-business, too. Joe McGarvey profiles the physical hub of the virtual universe. One such service is Web hosting, which works as a kind of high-tech caretaker to the electronic assets of thousands of wired businesses. Instead of purchasing and maintaining the scores of servers and connections necessary to run a busy Web presence, content providers and corporations contract out the heavy lifting to third-party service providers. Recognizing the eventual need for specialist online management, its founders set up shop in 1994.