ICT News: What Is The Cloud?

The cloud, simply, refers to software and services that run on the Internet instead of your computer. Apple iCloud, Dropbox, Netflix,
Amazon Cloud Drive, Flickr, Google Drive, Microsoft Office 365, Yahoo Mail -- those are all cloud services.

There are many advantages to using the cloud. Since the videos, photos, documents, games and other software that lives in the cloud are available on any device with an Internet connection, you can access your stuff from anywhere.
The cloud lets you watch half an episode of Breaking Bad on your TV at home and finish it on your smartphone while riding the train. You can play Candy Crush on your iPad and continue to the next level on your PC at work (not that you'd ever play Candy Crush at work). You can buy a song on iTunes and have it automatically sent to all your iGizmos.
In fact, you might be surprised how much of your stuff is in the cloud.
That's because mobile apps and PC software are becoming inseparable from the cloud. For example, many services, including iCloud and Google+ Photos, automatically back up photos you take with your smartphone. (That can get you in trouble if, say, you take naked photos and delete them from your phone -- there' still a copy in the cloud.)