{"id":9260,"date":"2018-07-12T10:24:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T10:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/blog\/?p=9260"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:15:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:15:02","slug":"past-present-future-cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esds.co.in\/blog\/past-present-future-cloud-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Past, Present, and Future of Cloud Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Did you know the concept of sharing computing resources has been around since the era of mainframe computing which began in the 1950s and the term \u201ccloud computing<\/strong>\u201d, which 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? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was realized by enterprises that since purchasing and maintaining computing capacity was so expensive, it made sense to share the resources for economical reasons. This is when the idea of sharing computing resources aka cloud computing came into the picture. The concept of virtualization leads the way in the 1970s where several virtual computers ran on a single hardware, but this idea did not catch up early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The very first milestone in cloud computing history took place in 1999 after the arrival of salesforce.com, which lead the way of delivering business applications through a website. This initiative by salesforce paved a way for the specialist as well as mainstream software corporations to deliver apps on the internet. Soon after salesforce, Amazon came into the picture and started working with cloud computing<\/strong> technology starting with AWS and launching their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later on Google and Apple too adopted cloud technology<\/strong> which marked another major milestone and since then the cloud has been growing and evolving at a rapid rate. Then around 2005, businesses realized that it made more economic sense to buy shared computing<\/strong> resources from the cloud since it required lesser man hours and efforts and in turn had more capabilities and was inexpensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloud computing<\/strong> as a technology has existed for quite a long time now and the way enterprises have used it has been rapidly changing. It began as a simple hosting service and has evolved to IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Looking at the present-day scenario, large-scale cloud computing<\/a><\/strong> is now accessible to everyone. It\u2019s not just limited to big players in the market and now is open to anybody, anywhere. Cloud has now grown into a well-known approach for the management & deployment of applications for a growing number of businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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