Webopedia Term of the Day: What is Cloud Services?

“Services made available to users on demand via the Internet
from a cloud computing provider’s servers as opposed to being
provided from a company’s own on-premises servers. Cloud services
are designed to provide easy, scalable access to applications,
resources and services, and are fully managed by a cloud services
provider.

“A cloud service can dynamically scale to meet the needs of its
users, and because the service provider supplies the hardware and
software necessary for the service, there’s no need for a company
to provision or deploy its own resources or allocate IT staff to
manage the service. Examples of cloud services include online data
storage and backup solutions, Web-based e-mail services, hosted
office suites and document collaboration services, database
processing, managed technical support services and more.

“See also Webopedia’s Cloud Computing Dictionary Resource and
Cloud Computing Security Challenges.”

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