What is the Cloud?

The cloud has nothing to do with the ones that we see in the sky. The Cloud is "a vast array of computers that are hooked together and are meant to operate as a single ecosystem". The cloud can be used as a way to store data, or applications and be able to access this remotely from anywhere you have access to a device that can connect to the internet. There are different types of clouds; private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud and community cloud. However, be careful what you put up to the cloud because you don't know if the cloud provider is keeping all of that data safe. Sure there are benefits to Cloud storage but securing that info so that no one can touch it is another problem in itself.