What is “Cloud” in Computing Environment?
Cloud Computing acronym is commonly known as, to name a few such as Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for enterprise software services.
Every technology company in the developed world seems to be selling cloud computing. So we decided to expose where it all began.
Cloud computing (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) is one of the hottest topics in technology besides Artificial Intelligence (AI). It appears tens of million times on the Internet. However, amidst all the discussion, most end-users want to know one question about cloud computing: Who said it first?
Late 1996, outside Houston Inside the offices of Compaq Computer, a small group of executives from the technology department was plotting the future of the Internet business and called it “cloud computing.”
They envisioned that all business software would move to the Web. So those technology executives coined “cloud computing-enabled applications” to become standard for end-users and consumer file storage.
According to Compaq marketing executive George Favaloro, it started a $2-billion-a-year business selling computer hardware such as servers to Internet service providers.
Later, Entrepreneur Sean O’Sullivan filed a trademark on “cloud computing” in 1997.
Cloud Computing is turning into a utility, like electricity. It is an old idea tracing back to the 1960s. Finally, however, it started to make financial sense to the business.
“cloud computing” was born as a marketing term, and it is nothing more than just a storage of consumer data (in binary format) on the servers (hardware). Such servers are connected globally through the Internet using landline, wireless networks, or satellite links, giving such computing an illusion of data in the cloud, consequently Cloud Computing.
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