(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’ve seen the hilarious movie ‘Sex Tape,’ starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel, you may be even more confused about the cloud than you were when it first became a buzzword. Many people still wonder what the cloud is and how it works.
The term seems so simple, but it encompasses a lot, and because it isn’t something you can simply hold in your hand it gives it some mystery. If you store something in the cloud will it get lost? Maybe learning a little about what it actually is will help ease some of the fears some of you still have.
Protecting Your Cloud Storage
The stuff you have saved in the cloud is just as prone to hackers as your website it, and just as open to malware and viruses as your computer is. That’s no reason to skip on using cloud computing though, since you’re at risk every time you get online.
Instead, set up some solutions to virtual cloud security, created to protect and store your data. Having special security set up to protect you from hackers and viruses just makes sense, since you do the same thing for your computer, and even your smartphone.
You also want to make sure that you have secure passwords, just 
like with anything else you do online. Take some time each month to look back at apps and devices that you have connected to your cloud and remove any that you no longer use. It also helps to look into what kind of security the provider is offering you as well.
So, now you know, the cloud is just a fun term for the internet. It’s nothing scary, it’s just a convenient way to save your stuff without over stuffing your computer!
What Exactly Is The Cloud?
Basically, cloud computing is using the internet to store your data or access data, rather than having it saved on your own hard drive. The cloud is the internet. The internet is the cloud. That means that your saved documents that you put into the cloud are just in the internet.
The cloud frees up the space on your computer. Instead of storing everything on your hard drive and running a slow computer because you’ve saved so much data, you can easily save online and check back when you need it. Plus, your documents, videos, or whatever you’ve put in the cloud, can be easily accessed from any computer.
What’s more? With cloud optimization services, you can ensure that your cloud-based operations are streamlined and efficient, maximizing performance and minimizing costs. This approach can, undoubtedly, improve storage flexibility. Put simply, the cloud not only simplifies data management but also supports seamless accessibility and operational efficiency
How People Use The Cloud
Everyone uses cloud computing, from people at home to businesses. It’s popular to use because of many reasons. It has opened up new avenues for employment, and opened up space on work and home computers.
At Home– If you save a lot of documents you are likely to benefit from cloud computing, where you can easily save your stuff online for easy access. Programs like Evernote, Google Drive, and Dropbox make it easy to use cloud storage. If you have a Gmail email address you have instant access to Google Drive.
Self-published authors, college students, and even home crafters and DIYers have found that cloud storage is the way to go. With these options you aren’t just able to store your work and get to it yourself, but you can also share links with other people that you want to have access to it.
At Work– The instant access to anyone that has a link to someone’s items in the cloud is one of the reasons why it is popular for businesses. Businesses no longer need to email documents to their employees, they can all be stored in a cloud and shared with each person that needs access to them.
This is also why it has become easier for people to telecommute and work efficiently in virtual jobs. A spreadsheet with assignments in Google Drive can share jobs with virtual employees who can also edit the sheet. Then through documents the employees can turn in their work right in the same cloud program.
What was once confusing is less confusing once you start using it on a regular basis. You realize that your items are still saved and accessible, they just aren’t using your RAM space. However, you may still wonder how safe the cloud is.
Staff Writer; Todd Howard
