data center as a service (DCaaS)

“Data center as a service (DCaaS) is the provision of offsite physical data center facilities and infrastructure to clients. Clients rent or lease access to the provider’s data center, using the servers, networking, storage and other computing resources owned by the DCaaS provider”

Source: http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/definition/data-center-as-a-service-DCaaS