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. www.campusglues.com