Share live data with the people who need it and everyone’s on the same page.Īlmost every tech company has their own cloud, and it seems to be getting cloudier every day. Save your data to the cloud and you’ll have access whenever and wherever you need it. You’re constantly chasing down the right version of each file… and hoping it doesn’t get lost. And working with other people who also have multiple devices, you see how impractical the old model is. So an email, document, calendar, book, photo or song that lives only on one device doesn’t do you much good when you’re on another device. But now, it’s common for a single user to have a desktop at work, laptop at home, a smartphone and a tablet. That was fine when we had just one computer. In the past, we stored files mainly on our computers – on hard drives, flash drives, CDs, and decades ago, floppies. These days, it seems everything is in the “cloud.” But what exactly is a cloud? Put simply, it’s a secure place on the internet to store and access your data.