A Brief History of Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing Cloud computing or simply cloud refers to the delivery of software or storage in the form of service to a group of users or enterprise based on the requirements. A pre-assigned network is used for the overall distribution and management of the provided software or services. Most often, Internet is used as a medium for distribution of the services from the provider to the end user. The term cloud has been famously derived from the diagram of cloud, which was represented as complex infrastructure and meshed networks in system diagrams. The first visible mention of cloud dates back to 1960s, when John McCarthy expressed these lines: "computation may someday be organised as a public utility." John McCarthy was an eminent cloud scientist and later produced several white papers and case studies demonstrating the importance and benefits of this new technology. Often, cloud server computing is compared with electricity distribution system; as the underly...