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Natalie Bissonnette

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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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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