The Development of Cloud Hosting
Apr 03, 2011
Computers can now be held in a hand and can perform advanced calculations in the slightest of fractions of a second. Yet in the 1960’s and 1970’s computers were large enough to fill a room and advanced calculations would take a long time, sometimes days for just one computation.
It was during these decades of early computer advancement that technology theorists hypothesized about computer and technology communities in the future when there could be a co-existent computer network. A notable voice of technology predictions from this time was Douglas Parkhill who released “The Challenge of the Computer Utility” in 1966.
The first recorded description of cloud computing was during Ramnath Chellappa in a 1997 lecture. It was not long until cloud hosting appeared online as a client-available medium from Amazon. Amazon was soon followed by IBM and Google in providing cloud web hosting solutions to clients.
Now it is widely available through these companies, or at least using their software as a running program for independently owned cloud computer and server networks, whether they are global or local.