The Cloud

Every time you send an email, upload a picture, or upload a file to any website you are using The Cloud. Using The Cloud means having information or a file readily available as long as you have an Internet connection. One of the most common ways of use is when people email themselves files for retrieval at a later date. If you think about it though whenever you send an email a copy is saved in your sent folder so even sending an email to your parents is utilizing The Cloud. Most file sharing websites will give you a few GBs of space for free when you open an account making your files secure and readily accessible at all times as well. Most sites allow you to purchase space for a very reasonable price maybe $15 per month for 200 GBs of space. This is basically the equivalent to having an external hard drive with you at all times. Personally I use the cloud almost daily, I actually just finished a group project for my speech class about 10 minutes ago and emailed it to everyone including myself so that I could edit it later on, it eliminated the need for a USB drive(which I have just FYI). But I will be editing the presentation later on and probably emailing it back to myself again to show everyone when we meet up tomorrow. The Cloud is a pretty awesome concept, I never knew the name or term for what I was doing until this class, I had even seen the Windows 7 commercials but never read into it, I just thought it was something that was exclusive to Windows(I have a Mac so that stuff doesn’t really concern me). I was wrong and I’m glad that I know what it is now, I have been utilizing The Cloud since I was 14(7years) and I just now found out what it was.