Brief
History of Cloud Computing
The evolution of Cloud Computing took a number of years, in different
phases. The concept of a global network emerged in the 1960’s. The idea was
that everyone be interconnected and would be able to use data and programs from
any site located anywhere on the globe. Though the concept was already
available, the Internet, in a good bandwidth was available only by the 1990’s.
Another key factor which contributed to the quick evolution of Cloud Computing
was the emergence of the Virtualization technology. Some important milestones
in the evolution of cloud computing were as follows:
1. Salesforce.com,
which offered there services on the SaaS platform.
2. The Amazon suite of
cloud-based services and Elastic Compute Cloud.
3. Arrival of Web 2.0.
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