The History of Cloud Computing

Here we go again. Another new buzz phrase that is going to set the world on fire. It seems like overnight Cloud Computing has caught the attention of everyone in the technology industry. The tenants of Cloud Computing (Hosted Applications, Self Provisioning, Self Maintained, Ubiquitous Access, Scalable and Distributed Architecture, Muli-Tenancy, Service Oriented Architecture) have been around for some time. It is the merging of all of these concepts that makes Cloud Computing such an undeniable reality.

Here is a brief history of some of the technologies that have evolved to create Cloud Computing.