Sign up for a new account or log in here: Cloud computing is a
concept that many Americans have likely heard about and even use
on a daily basis but according to a recent survey from Wakefield
Research for Citrix, the majority of respondents have virtually
no idea what it is. About 29 percent of the 1,006 people polled
thought cloud computing had to do with an actual cloud, the sky
or something related to weather. Furthermore, 51 percent of
those surveyed believe bad weather would interfere with cloud
computing while only 16 percent correctly understood the phrase
as a computer network to store, access and share data from
Internet-connected devices. A full 54 percent of Americans say
they never use the cloud but after further probing, it turns out
that 95 percent of respondents actually do. Almost one in three
people say it’s a thing of the future and 15 percent believe
that only those in the tech industry use it. Both assumptions,
of course, are incorrect. One in five Americas say they have
pretended to know