iCloud and iOS 5 free cloud computing storage from apple

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iCloud is a cloud service from Apple Inc. announced on June 6, 2011 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The service allows users to store data such as music files and automatically sync between multiple devices such as iPhones, iPods and personal computers. It also replaces MobileMe, acting as a server for email, contacts, calendars and other data.

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At Apple's WWDC, Steve Jobs introduces the concept of iCloud and how this service relates to the Contacts, Calendar, and Mail apps.
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Press releases of iCloud
The first official mention of iCloud from Apple came on May 31, 2011, when a press release announced that it would launch the software at the WWDC on June 6, 2011
5 Days before the 2011 WWDC, Apple released the logo of iCloud, along with iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion logos. Inside the Moscone center, a banner shows the logos of OS X, iOS 5, iCloud: a lion for OS X, "5" for iOS 5, and a cloud for iCloud.

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In the WWDC 2011 keynote speech, Apple announced iCloud will replace MobileMe, and will move all its services over to iCloud. It was also announced that iCloud is free of charge. The cloud based system allows users to store Music, Photos, Apps, iBooks and Contacts, as well as serving as a platform for Apple's email servers and calendars. Each account has 5GB of free storage.
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Apple chief executive Steve Jobs yesterday interrupted his medical leave to unveil a free service called iCloud.
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Apple chief executive Steve Jobs yesterday interrupted his medical leave to unveil a free service called iCloud that stores music, photos and other content on the web and shares it across multiple devices.
'We're going to move the digital hub to the cloud,' the 56-year-old Jobs told software developers at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
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Cloud computing
Cloud computing refers to the on-demand provision of computational resources (data, software) via a computer network, rather than from a local computer. Users or clients can submit a task, such as word processing, to the service provider, without actually possessing the software or hardware. The consumer's computer may contain very little software or data (perhaps a minimal operating system and web browser only), serving as a basic display terminal connected to the Internet. Since the cloud is the underlying delivery mechanism, cloud-based applications and services may support any type of software application or service in use today.

In the past, both data and software had to be stored and processed on or near the computer. The development of Local Area Networks allowed for a system in which multiple CPUs and storage devices could be organized to increase the performance of the entire system. In an extension to that concept, cloud computing fundamentally allows for a functional separation between the resources used and the user's computer, usually residing outside the local network, for example, in a remote datacenter. Consumers now routinely use data-intensive applications driven by cloud technology that were previously unavailable due to cost and deployment complexity.[citation needed] In many companies, employees and company departments are bringing a flood of consumer technology into the workplace, which raises legal compliance and security concerns for the corporation.

Jobs and other top Apple executives also gave developers a preview of the next generation of Lion, the software that powers Macintosh computers, and iOS 5, the latest mobile operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

But the highlight of the event was Apple's long-awaited iCloud service, which eliminates the need to hook up a cable to transfer files between Apple devices.

'Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy,' Jobs said to cheers from the audience of more than 5,000 software developers. 'We think the solution is our next big insight. ICloud stores your content in the cloud and automatically pushes it to all your devices,' he said.

Apple said iCloud wirelessly synchronises mail, contacts, calendars, photos, applications, e-books, music and other files across devices. Apple's 'iTunes in the Cloud' shares music bought through iTunes across Apple devices while a Photo Stream service does the same with pictures.

For music not bought through iTunes, Apple is offering a service called 'iTunes Match' for $24.99 a year that matches music ripped from CDs in a subscriber's personal music collection and makes it available online.

Jobs, who underwent a liver transplant two years ago and has fought pancreatic cancer, was making just his second public appearance since going on medical leave in January with an unspecified illness.

Besides iCloud, Apple also unveiled a new iMessage service that lets users send text messages, photos and videos between Apple devices and Newsstand, a bookshelf for newspaper and magazine subscriptions that updates automatically with the latest issue.
Apple said iCloud will be available this autumn with the release of iOS 5 and will provide five gigabytes of free cloud storage for mail, document storage and backup.

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Richard Doherty, co-founder and director of Envisioneering Group Inc., Bob Lefsetz, author of The Lefsetz Letter, and Bloomberg Businessweek's Barrett Sheridan talk about Apple Inc.'s new iCloud service that stores music and other files online.

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