Blog #2: What Is The Cloud? And How Is It Important?
The cloud is a network of servers acting like a service on the internet which can let you store and access data on the internet instead of the usual hard drive. Some examples of a cloud is like Google Drive or the Apple Icloud and even more. This can contain many good uses. For example, I have an Iphone and I could use the Icloud to store data like maybe a backup just in case something happened to my data on my phone or I’m getting a new one, but I want to keep all my photos and applications. I could use it easily and transfer my backup data on my new phone. Another good example is on Google Drive, I could be working on an essay, but I didn’t finish it. With internet access, I can go into my google drive on a computer at school or I can go on my phone to finish or edit my essay. The cloud service is important to me because there is a lot of things today that use the cloud. One example is like for Walmart, They know where everything is because they look it up through a device and that uses the cloud. Without it, we have to look for it ourselves, or maybe the workers have to remember where most things are to direct customers. With this example, there is many other ways we could use the cloud. The cloud can be used in many different ways in our world today making it very flexible. The cloud is also very accessible(If when connected to the internet). You can access the cloud from any computer or device. This makes accessing documents or data from almost anywhere. Another good benefit is that it’s easy shareable, making it more easy to collaborate with people. You can share a document with peers for extra help or for peer editing. You could also have a group presentation like on Google Slides or working on a group essay, you could share a document or slide with your group mates and all of you could be working on that same document at the same time, making collaborating way easier.Or when you need to send a letter to someone, before you could hand write that letter and mail it to them. But now, you can easily type it out on google drive and email it or share that letter to them and that person will get an email showing that document. With the cloud, there is more security like I said earlier, but it doesn’t just apply to our phone data. It could apply to any device using the cloud. Everything on Google Drive is saved and if something gets corrupted, nothing will happen to it because it is saved on the cloud, nothing to worry about! You could be downloading something from the cloud, but it doesn’t really work out or something bad happens to that file you downloaded, it still will be located on the cloud. Another reason why the cloud is important to me because the cloud’s availability is very good. You could use the cloud almost any time of the day. Plus the cloud is basically everywhere now.