Clouding Computing

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History of cloud computing
The word "cloud" is used to represent the internet and other communications systems. Cloud computing is the result of an evolution of the widespread adoption of virtualization, service-oriented architecture, autonomic, and utility computing in the past, telecommunications companies mainly gave simply dedicated, point-to-point data circuits to their users. Starting from the 1990's, virtual private network services was included in their contributions. It made the telecommunication companies offer equally improved services whereby cutting down on cost as well as using resources effectively.
The term "cloud" represented the computing space between the provider and the end user. In 1997, Professor Ramnath Chellapa of Emory University and the University of South California defined cloud computing as the new “computing paradigm where the boundaries of computing will be determined by economic rationale rather than technical limits alone.” (Eze Castle Integration Inc., 2013)
In the late 1990s, the internal efficiencies of cloud computing and its importance was better understood by companies. In 1999, the thought of conveying enterprise-level applications to end users via the Internet was done by Salesforce.com who was the first major movers in the cloud arena. Customers with internet access were able to buy this service affordably.
In the early 2000s, Amazon.com introduced the web-based retail services .The first major organization to update its data centers was Amazon It only used 10% of their capacity due to the fact that other companies were nervous about unexpected spike in the capacity needs. The new cloud computing infrastructure model permitted Amazon to exploit their existing capacity with much grea...

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...issue while in the cloud is that of security issues .You have to be careful which third party cloud service provider you dealing because all your company's sensitive information will be available to them.
Prone to Attack
Data and information stored on the cloud may become vulnerable to external hackers and threats. The internet is not completely secured lurking the likelihood of furtiveness of sensitive data.

Technical Issues
Sometimes the data and information on the cloud is not accessible anywhere due to system and technical difficulties. A very good internet connection is needed to be able to be logged on to the severs at all times. At other times there are network and connectivity issues.
Be aware of the fact that this technology is always prone to outages and other technical issues.

Works Cited

http://www.eci.com/cloudforum/cloud-computing-history.html

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