The Evolution Of The Cloud From 1950 - 2012

BEHIND THE SEAMLESS The History (and Destiny) of Cloud Technology 2012 NTT Communications offers the world's first software-defined-network powered cloud From aspirational beginnings to transformative realizations, NTT Communications embraces and embodies the past and future of cloud technology. NTT Communications powers Seamless Cloud for the World with 145 data centers in 17 countries and 170,000 m? of server ro om area Eucalyptus becomes the first open-source, AWS API-compatible platform for deploying private clouds Companies begin moving from hardware to cloud services, citing efficiency as the #1 benefit Dot-com retail giants play key roles in the growth of cloud computing by modernizing their data centers and starting to offer cloud computing to customers 20000 Utility computing uses a pay-by-use model, bundling resources such as storage and service and forming the foundation for cloud computing as we know it SETI@Home is launched Grid or distributed computing uses multiple computers networked together to complete à single task HTML developed by Tim Berners-Lee at ČERN 19900 Development of TCP/IP 1st International connections to ARPAÑET 1970 O 1950 Expensive mainframe computers are used by large organizations in which multiple users participate in time-sharing Herb Grosch envisioned that the entire world would operate on terminals powered by about 15 large data centers 1960 SOURCES: sourcedigit.com/497-timeline-history-of-cloud-computing/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet Global ICT Partner NTTCommunications Innovative. Reliable. Seamless.