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You’ve heard that people are storing their photos and files in the cloud. At work, they might say that the software you use is in the cloud. Almost everything seems to be moving to the cloud.

But what is the cloud? And how do you get the most out of it?

How do you define something that is meant to be ambiguous? Since at least 1977, when a computer network was first drawn, a cloud icon has been used to represent unknown sources outside the immediate network. You know it’s there, you just can’t see into it, like a real cloud in the sky. Often it simply represented a connection to the Internet.