Cloudsourcing

Leveraging services in the network cloud to provide external computing capabilities, often to replace more expensive local IT capabilities. Cloudsourcing can theoretically provide significant economic benefits along with some attendant trade-offs. These trade-offs can include security and performance. The term "cloud" represents a set of external services on a 3rd party network, usually the Internet. The services can represent raw computing, storage, messaging, or more structured capabilities such as vertical and horizontal business applications, even community. These services are delivered over the network, but generally behave as if they are local.

outsourcing storage or taking advantage of some other type of cloud service.