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History of Cloud Computing (1)

The concept of Cloud Computing came into existence in the year 1950.At around in 1961, John MacCharty suggested in a speech at MIT that computing can be sold like a utility, just like a water or electricity.The technology caught that idea and since then, cloud computing has been evolved from static clients to dynamic ones and from software to services.In 1999, Salesforce.com started delivering of applications to users using a simple website.This proves that today, cloud computing has become mainstream.

History of Cloud Computing (1)

The concept of Cloud Computing came into existence in the year
1950.

At around in 1961, John MacCharty suggested in a speech at MIT
that computing can be sold like a utility, just like a water or
electricity.

It was a brilliant idea, but like all brilliant ideas, it was ahead of
its time, as for the next few decades, despite interest in the
model, the technology simply was not ready for it.

Before emerging the cloud computing, there was Client/Server
computing.

Then, distributed computing appeared, where all the computers are
networked together and share their resources when needed.

On the basis of above computing, there was emerged of cloud
computing concepts that later implemented.

The technology caught that idea and since then, cloud computing
has been evolved from static clients to dynamic ones and from
software to services.

In 1999, Salesforce.com started delivering of applications to users
using a simple website. The applications were delivered to
enterprises over the Internet, and this way the dream of computing
sold as utility were true.

In 2002, Amazon started Amazon Web Services (AWS), providing
services like storage, computation and even human intelligence.

In 2009, Google Apps Engine also started to provide cloud
computing enterprise applications.

In 2009, Microsoft launched Windows Azure, and companies like
Oracle and HP have all joined the game. This proves that today,
cloud computing has become mainstream.