As computer networks began to grow and the possibilities of offloading both storage and computing from local machines became a reality, the cloud as we know it today was born. It lives as an emergent phenomena in webmail, offsite backups, even Skype, Twitter, and other communication platforms. They all take place in the “out there” of the Internet, which could be distributed in any manner and we can connect to it from anywhere that connects to the Internet.

The Next Web right now has an amazing sharable video up produced by JESS3, and it’s certainly worth taking a look at (see it below),

We all know about the Cloud right? Or Cloud Computing as some might say. Well it seems that it is the future, some companies already knew this but lately I’ve found that most consumers don’t. Now I know almost all readers of TNW must have heard about it before or might already call themselves Cloud Guru’s but I wanted to share this especially with the folks that could use some in depth info about what’s next. Social Media might need to give way.

Is the Cloud the next big thing? It’s already the next big thing. And the statistics already show it with 443 million Skype subscribers worldwide using 23.6 billion minutes in 2009; Dropbox (which I recommend) has over 4 million users storing over 1 petabyte of data; 35 hours of video are uploaded to YouTUBE very minute; Wikipedia contains over 10 million articles in 273 languages; and 90 million tweets are being sent every day.

Our world is already in the Cloud and it’s only going to expand, billowing out in all directions.

Isn’t it about time that we all embrace the next big thing and enter the Cloud?