Cloudsourcing is an arrangement in which a company pays a cloud provider to
carry out services that could be provided in-house. Although cloudsourcing is similar to
outsourcing, the cost for cloud services is usually based on a per-use utility model instead of an
annual or monthly contract.
See also: outsourcing, rightsourcing, business process
outsourcing (BPO)
This was last updated in June 2012
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