Did you aware of this, that the concept of
sharing computing devices has been around since the era of mainframe computing
which began in the 1950s and the term “cloud computing”, that is comparatively a modern
term, was coined only in the last 10 years and back users were concurrently
able to access and share a central system through various computers. It was
realized by corporate companies that since buying and maintaining computer’s
computing capacity were so expensive, now this technology made sense to share
the resources for economic reasons and available resources at very cheap rate.
This is when the idea of sharing computing resources cloud computing came
into the existence. The concept of virtualization leads the way in the 1970s
where several virtual computers ran on a single hardware machine, but this idea
did not catch up so early.
The very first milestone in cloud computing
history took place in 1999-2000 after the salesforce.com came into
existence and provide some services on cloud, which lead the way of delivering some
computing applications through a website name salesforce. This initiative by
salesforce paved a way for computer professionals as well as mainstream software
corporations to deliver applications software on the internet for use remotely.
Soon after salesforce, Amazon Company came into existence with some services as
a cloud and started working with cloud computing technology and introduced AWS
(Amazon Web services) services and launching their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Beanstalk (EBS).
After some
time, knowing that cloud service going so popular then Google (Google Cloud Platform), Apple and
Microsoft (Microsoft Azure)
too adopted cloud
computing technology which marked another major milestone
and since then the cloud has been growing and evolving at a rapid rate. Then
around 2005-06, corporates realized that cloud computing made more economic
sense to buy shared computing resources from the cloud since
it required lesser man hours and efforts and in turn had more capabilities and
was very cheap then own resources.
Cloud computing as a technology
based on virtualization and has existed for quite a long time now and the way
enterprises have used it has been rapidly growing day by day. It began as a
simple web hosting service and has evolved to IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service,
PaaS (Platform as a Service, SaaS(Software as a Service) and many more. Looking
at the present day scenario, large scale cloud computing is now accessible to
everyone. It’s not just limited to big firm in the field of information
technology market and now it is open to anybody, anywhere. Cloud Computing has now grown into
a well-known approach for the management & deployment of applications for
growing businesses rapidly.
Looking into
the future technology world, according to computer, Over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data
are created every single day. This data was generated by various industry (Like,
Facebook, YouTube’s) and consumers. For example, approximately 125 hours of
videos data are uploaded to YouTube every minute and about 205 million e-mails
are exchanged every minute. A report, called ‘State of the Cloud Computing by Byron Deeter’,
showed that the cloud computing market is growing at a 22.8% and the compound
annual growth rate will reach $127.5 billion in 2018.
Now we stay
in a world where people are surrounded by a lot of gadgets and also, the number
of IoT devices is growing as well. We now not only access information but we
consume it to make decisions in real-time. This enormous size of data generated
will also need to be collected together and processed in the Cloud world. So,
very soon cloud computing technology will allow us to work faster with more
efficiency than it is today. In addition, together with their spread of cloud
computing, our life will accelerate.
