VNET Group, Inc.

An investment holding company headquartered in Beijing, VNET Group operates as a data center and cloud infrastructure provider serving customers across mainland China. The company delivers managed hosting services primarily through colocation offerings, where customers dedicate or lease data center space for their servers and networking equipment. VNET also provides interconnectivity services enabling customers to connect their infrastructure, alongside a range of value-added services including hybrid IT solutions, bare metal services, firewall management, server load balancing, data backup and recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities.

The company's service portfolio extends to cloud services that allow customers to run applications and workloads over internet-based infrastructure, as well as VPN services for extending private networks across public internet connections. Server administration services form an additional revenue stream, encompassing operating system support, server monitoring, backup and restoration, security evaluation, and firewall services. VNET serves diverse customer segments including information technology and cloud service providers, communications and social networking companies, gaming and entertainment firms, e-commerce businesses, financial services companies, and government agencies, alongside telecommunications carriers and small-to-mid-sized enterprises.

Operating with approximately 2,581 full-time employees, VNET maintains a primarily domestic geographic footprint concentrated in China. The company was founded in 1996 and rebranded from 21Vianet Group, Inc. to VNET Group, Inc. in October 2021.