Whose Idea on the back of Cloud Computing

The major benefit of the concept behind cloud computing is that the average user does not require a computer that is extremely powerful to handle complex database indexing tasks that server farms can. Instead, with the use of broadband, users can easily connect to the cloud, which would commonly be referred to as the point of contact with the larger network. 

History of Cloud Computing 

With this point of contact, cloud computing users from all across the world can reap the benefits of enormous processing power without major capital or technical know-how. While this concept was explored in the mainframe days of the 1960s, it was not until huge infrastructure investments in broadband were made in the late 1990s that cloud computing as it is utilized today could become possible. The heavy consumption of bandwidth that encompasses the internet of today is what makes the technology work, as previously networks were much less dynamic due to slow upload and download speeds that were available at the time.

Progress of Cloud Computing

 The global economy has made a large shift and as opposed to being manufacturing based, an era of information is now prevalent. Information will someday itself become a commodity just like manufactured goods are today, and a server farm could be thought of as the modern equivalent of a factory. This new “factory” is the engine behind information growth driving data processing and capacity to become less of a factor in terms of cost.

Future of Cloud Computing 

 It’s an idea that is being explored, and these new data centers that are being constructed are just like factories, with information becoming the commodity of the future. Another major factor that changed the landscape was the idea that multitudes of cheap computer hardware could be harnessed to create a vastly networked data center just as good as a smaller amount of more expensive, higher quality server hardware. 

While it was once the conventional wisdom that expensive servers stood less risk of failure, when you have thousands of low cost servers employed in a data center the chance of an outage of service to users is just as diminished as the latter option. Having this much power in terms of data capability creates a flexibility in information that has never before been seen until today. 
The largest technology companies currently are capturing this concept and making available information that can help make our lives easier and more convenient. For companies, it helps them to become more efficient and profitable.