
John McCarthy introduced Mainframe Timesharing, contributing to the development of the Internet and a precursor of Cloud Computing.
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was founded by J.C.R. Licklider. His vision was for everyone on the globe to be interconnected and being able to access programs and data from everywhere.
Virtualization Software launched.
The availability ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), a network technology based on transferring data in cells or packets of a fixed size.
WWW launched.
General Magic Company launched Cloud Computing product with more alliances such as AT&T.
Cloud Computing was defined by Prof. Ramnath Chellappa.
Salesforce.com was founded by Marc Benioff and Parker Harris. They applied many Cloud technologies to be developed by companies such as Google and Yahoo.
Microsoft expanded concept of SaaS (Software as a Service) via Web service.
IBM added more ideas about Autonomic Computing Manifesto that explained high automatic technical such as self-monitoring, self-healing, self-configuring, and self-optimizing.
The birth of Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), a software system that allowed the execution of multiple virtual guest operating systems simultaneously on a single machine.
Amazon developed Cloud Computing and launched Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amazon launched Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Storage Service (S3).
Google and IBM started to do research on Cloud Computing.
Gartner Research founded that most organizations switched from hardware and software services to Cloud Computing.
The Worldwide Public Cloud Services Market totalled £78bn, up 18.5 percent on 2012.
Global business's spending for infrastructure and services: approximately £103.8bn, up 20%.