Cloud Computing Movement
1959- John McCarthy introduced mainframe time-sharing theory
1969 – ARPANET developed by J. C. R. Licklider
1970 – IBM released an operating system called VM that permitted to have multiple virtual systems on a single physical node.
1991 – WWW (the World Wide Web) became publicly available by its creator, Tim Berners-Lee.
1997 – Cloud Computing term coined by Prof Ramnath Chellappa
1999 – Salesforce pioneered a new technology platform(SaaS), offering business apps over the internet and pay-per-use
2002 – Amazon Web Services(AWS) platform was launched by Amazon
2003 – Google’s distributed file system paper, called GFS (Google File System), was published by Google, for storing the large data sets
2006 – Amazon re-launched AWS and introduced Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2), Simple Storage Service(S3)
2008 – Yahoo released Hadoop as an open source project to ASF(Apache Software Foundation)
2008 – Google released Google Cloud Platform & Google App Engine
2010 – Microsoft introduced Windows Azure and Azure Service Platform
2011 – Hybrid cloud emerged, combining public and private cloud environments
2011 – Apple launched iCloud, allowing people to automatically and wirelessly store their content
2012 – SAP announced a platform as a service offering called the SAP HANA Cloud Platform
2012 – Oracle announced the Oracle Cloud
2013 – Docker, container services released
2014 – IBM introduced Bluemix (later rebranded as IBM Cloud) for public
2015 – Kubernetes, a container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management released
2017 – Announced per-second billing by AWS and GCP
2019 – Cloud based Content Distribution Network (CDN) – video streaming market boom
