“The Cloud”
So what is this cloud thing that everyone is talking about, where did it come from and what do I need to know about it?
The Cloud will often be described in different ways by different people. Sometimes their definition might contradict, sometimes they will be talking about different situations or services. The confusion is because ‘The Cloud’ is not a thing, it’s a collection of things that work mostly seamlessly in the background allowing you to share information across different devices without having to worry too much about how you’re going to get your information from point A to point B.
The cloud was used to represent the internet in computer network diagrams, though originally nothing was kept in the cloud, it was just a means of transferring data from servers to users. Read more