Introduction:
In online world, we get information with just one click. But where this all information is stored? How we can store so much data from anywhere and can access from everywhere. No time bound, no distance regulation, everything is so easy. How is it possible? How it works? What is it? It has only one name and one answer "CLOUD COMPUTING".
It's an environment which enables user to access, store all data over the internet. Till now store information on various hardware such as HDD(Hard Drive), PD (Pen Drive), CD, DVD. These all traditional ways has its own advantages and disadvantages. Virus, Data corruption, Data loss are common major problems we faced with it. Storing large amount of information on it always increases the cost. After lots of research storing information online is the by far best solution we found it in industry. Careers in same field is booming.
Time Line:
- 1996: The phrase "cloud computing" was first introduced as "Compaq".
- 2000: Cloud computing has come into existence.
- 2006: Amazon.com releasing its Elastic Compute Cloud.
- 2008: Google released Google App Engine.
- 2010: Microsoft released Microsoft Azure (February 2010).
- 2010: Rackspace Hosting and NASA jointly launched an open-source cloud-software
initiative known as OpenStack (July 2010). - 2011: IBM announced the IBM SmartCloud framework.
- 2012: Google Compute Engine was released in preview.
Services in Cloud Computing:
- Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
- Platform as a service (PaaS)
- Software as a service (SaaS)
- Mobile "backend" as a service (MBaaS)
- Serverless computing