The cloud. That network of remote servers on the Internet used to handle your information processing so no one will know what a total incompetent you are being so unable to handle your technological affairs.
Outsourced. That term used to describe the utilization of hosted solutions on the cloud so that no one has to know that you know nothing.
Each day the cloud grows larger and more enticing with IPv6 and it's virtually unlimited number of individual addresses. There are an ever increasing set of options to hand over your processes and your documents and let somebody else be the keeper of your enterprise.
Companies vie for your business and compete with each other in an effort to gain that upper hand in their world ... the world of technodolts, like you.
There are a variety of reasons for outsourcing to the cloud stated by those who inulge. Phrases like "freeing resources" and "eliminating a need for infrastructure and it's incessant requirement for ROI" ALL to keep from admitting that you're just too stupid to handle your own affairs.
In the final rinse of "what is" and "what isn't" two things are certain:
1. incompetence is.
2. ability isn't.
It's you through and through.
Maybe that next big server breach will be the farm upon which your trade secrets, objects, and methods reside. Good luck there, dumbass.