07 Jan 2016

The History of Cloud

1960s

John McCarthy introduced Mainframe Timesharing, contributing to the development of the Internet and a precursor of Cloud Computing.

1969

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.

1970

Virtualization Software launched.

1990s

The availability ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), a network technology based on transferring data in cells or packets of a fixed size.

1991

WWW launched.

1995

General Magic Company launched Cloud Computing product with more alliances such as AT&T.

1997

Cloud Computing was defined by Prof. Ramnath Chellappa.

1999

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.

2000s

Microsoft expanded concept of SaaS (Software as a Service) via Web service.

2001

IBM added more ideas about Autonomic Computing Manifesto that explained high automatic technical such as self-monitoring, self-healing, self-configuring, and self-optimizing.

2003

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.

2005

Amazon developed Cloud Computing and launched Amazon Web Services (AWS).

2006

Amazon launched Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Storage Service (S3).

2007

Google and IBM started to do research on Cloud Computing.

2008

Gartner Research founded that most organizations switched from hardware and software services to Cloud Computing.

2013

The Worldwide Public Cloud Services Market totalled £78bn, up 18.5 percent on 2012.

2014

Global business's spending for infrastructure and services: approximately £103.8bn, up 20%.

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