The Beginner’s Guide to the Cloud

In this beginner’s guide, we break down the who, what, where and why of one of tech’s most abstract terms.

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• The cloud is a network of servers, and each server has a different function. Some servers use computing power to run applications or « deliver a service. »
• Other servers in the network are responsible for storing data.
• « The Cloud » is a network of servers. Some servers provide an online service, like Adobe Creative Cloud, and others allow you to store and access data, like Instagram or Dropbox.
• The business decision to « move to the cloud » is often financially motivated
• The history of the cloud dates back as far as the 1950s.
• they developed « time sharing » methods, which let multiple users share access to data and CPU time.  

   

     

  Today, this idea of « time sharing » is the premise of cloud computing. 

  Today, this idea of « time sharing » is the premise of cloud computing.

• The next major event in cloud computing history occurred in 1969, when J.C.R. Licklider developed ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)
• the Internet didn’t feature enough bandwidth to make the cloud available to the masses until the ’90s.
• Professor Ramnath Chellappa was the first to use the term « cloud computing » in 1997
• Amazon officially launched its own cloud computing platform called Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006.
• An Exabyte of memory can hold the same amount of data as 4.2 million Macbook Pro hard drives
• The cloud is great for storing non-sensitive information

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