6 Fast Facts About Cloud Computing!
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In 1961, Stanford professor John McCarthy was one of the first to suggest a time-share, service bureau computing model.
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J.C.R. Licklider, a key man at ARPANET, predicted an intergalactic computer network from which users could access data or programs anytime, anywhere.
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Advances in hardware, software and networking, brought the rise of appilcation service providers in the 1990's.
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In 1997, the firm NetCentric tried to trademark the term cloud computing, but gave up the effort two years later.
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Dell tried the same stunt a decade later, failed.
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Research and Markets analysts expect cloud computing to be a $160.2 billion market by 2015.
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6 Fast Facts About Cloud Computing! at 6/14/2011 12:50 PM
6 Fast Facts About Cloud Computing! at 6/14/2011 3:19 PM
The cloud is an extension of Internet, a network of computers that know how to communicate with each other and store & retrieve data. It enables computers that were once incompatible and isolated to be linked through a giant network, or "cloud."
Thanks to the thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable laid during the late 1990s, the speed of computer networks has finally caught up to the speed of the computer processor.
Everyone from individuals to multinational corporations can now simply tap into the "cloud" to get all the things they used to have to supply and maintain themselves, saving time and money.