History of Cloud Computing
We re-publish this interesting infographic found on the net, it would seem created by Visiwa lab.
It’s an infographic that manages to group some salient points of the history of Cloud Computing, maybe I would have mentioned them and fixed some mistakes, but the idea is very good.
As we always say, the Cloud starts with Uncle John McCarthy, the father of artificial intelligence. In 1961, at the centennial of MIT, he said that time-sharing would lead to a future where the power of computers and applications would be sold according to the economic utility model, as for water and electricity.
The birth of the Internet, 1982-83 is the fundamental piece for distributed architectures, the birth of vmware is certainly another fundamental piece, but it is a mistake not to mention XenSource, as the birth of virtualization has always seen these two antagonists, vmware and xen, the first now widespread among all large and medium-sized companies in the world, while the second (open source) is extremely popular with all hosting providers and most cloud providers.
It is a serious mistake to put Amazon AWS, a pioneer and world leader in the IaaS and PaaS public cloud, only as PaaS, also because in 2006 it started as IaaS.
It is worth mentioning the open source software Eucalyptus born in 2008, as a promoter of the birth of the concept of private cloud, although I think there will be many objections to this statement.
The date of the first draft definition of Cloud Computing, by NIST, which if I am not mistaken was born in 2008, is missing.
