Can I use icloud as a storage for photos from my PC without pushing all of them to my iphone?

I thought the cloud could be a backup to my PC (files, pics, itunes...) that I could access from my iphone.  If my pics are pushed to my phone, my memory will be more than maxed out.  Same with itunes.  I would like to switch the tunes on my phone sometimes. 
Am I expecting too much from my cloud!?

No.
iCloud isn't like our old iDisk. It's more about connecting muliple devices to the same shared data.

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