Cloud Sourcing

Cloud sourcing is an arrangement wherein an organization pays a cloud hosting service provider for carrying out services that could be provided in-house. Even if, Cloud sourcing is very much similar to outsourcing, costing of cloud services is usually based on a per-use utility model, rather than charging on monthly or annual basis.

Cloud sourcing facilitates businesses to procure their entire IT infrastructure from a cloud, smooth integration with any platform, and it doesn’t require any management overhead. If industry experts is to be believed – Cloud sourcing is the future of cloud computing and businesses. Irrespective of their size, organizations in large number are looking to the cloud to meet all their IT requirements.

With the emergence of cloud computing and the growing flexibility of various products and services provided under this technology, it has become easier to offer a cloud-as-service-solution that breaks many of the previous barriers in terms of platform interoperability, scalability and cost.

Virtually every IT requirement can be sourced on a utility computing billing model with solutions such as – raw computing power, network, storage, software or a comprehensive enterprise IT solution. Typically, Cloud sourcing services are vertical, cloud-in-a-box solutions that are well-designed to meet a particular business segment’s IT requirement.

Cloud sourcing pros and cons

Cloud sourcing helps organizations to reduce upfront cost, thereby increasing operational efficiency of the organization.

Not only does cloud sourcing help the IT team in minimizing delivery time, but also assist in making tasks automatic and easy to implement. With repetitive tasks been taken care of by the cloud sourcing model, teams can start focusing on more strategic things thereby bringing true value to the business.

The pros of cloud sourcing generally outweighs its cos, but there are cons nonetheless. First, companies using cloud sourcing can face a few challenges. Organizations that have sourced cloud technologies from outside fear losing control over their data – one of the first things that enterprises contemplate over, while switching to cloud model.

Enterprises having strict security and privacy compliances are the first to back off from full term commitment.