History of Cloud Computing

The concept of Cloud Computing came into existence in the year 1950 with implementation of mainframe computers, accessible via thin/static clients. Since then, cloud computing has been evolved from static clients to dynamic ones and from software to services. The following diagram explains the evolution of cloud computing:

Benefits

Cloud Computing has numerous advantages. Some of them are listed below -

• One can access applications as utilities, over the Internet.
• One can manipulate and configure the applications online at any time.
• It does not require to install a software to access or manipulate cloud application.
• Cloud Computing offers online development and deployment tools, programming runtime environment through PaaS model.
• Cloud resources are available over the network in a manner that provide platform independent access to any type of clients.
• Cloud Computing offers on-demand self-service. The resources can be used without interaction with cloud service provider.
• Cloud Computing is highly cost effective because it operates at high efficiency with optimum utilization. It just requires an Internet connection
• Cloud Computing offers load balancing that makes it more reliable.