The Cloud

Prior knowledge
I know that the cloud is a information storing place where you can send information on one device and retrieve it on another that is enabled on to your cloud.
Q's
What devices can connect to the cloud? Who created the cloud? What server started cloud technology, as in Google, apple, or Microsoft?
INFORMATION 

• Microsoft, Apple, Google, and even Amazon has a cloud service.
• Google and Microsoft's cloud servers are mostly for blogging and emails, but include word processors and online file storing.
• Before the cloud it is just a giant pool of data, but then once divided into different servers it becomes a cloud.
• A cloud can be attached to a network of computers sharing information and software to all of them.
• Apples icloud let's you buy or download something to all devices at the same time automatically.
• Microsoft sells a cloud server for $0.08 an hour or $58.40 a month for 1 GB.
• On the icloud by Apple you can still attach a device with windows 7, a Microsoft invention.
• Apple sells icloud servers for 55 GB for $100 a year or just 5 GB for free.
• Cloud computing is defined as  Internet-based computing in which large groups of remote servers are networked so as to allow sharing of data-processing tasks, centralized data storage, and online access to computer services or resources. 
• Cloud computing dates back to 1996 when a group was trying to make computer history.
• The network-based computing dates to the 1960's
• The first time cloud computing became a real term was in 2006

LINKS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cloud-computing/what-is-cloud-computing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cloud-computing/what-is-cloud-computing
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/cloud-computing/cloud-computing.htm
http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/itunes-in-the-cloud/
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/425970/who-coined-cloud-computing/
RELATION
I use the icloud myself. My parents set up an icloud account and we all share our music, pictures, and movies there. When I download an app or a new song it directly goes to all devices which is the best part of the icloud.
LAST Q
Who really started and invented the cloud computing system?