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What is Cloud Computing?


     Cloud Computing is a concept of a service provider that provides different methods of computing. It is also known by Clod Services. It all began in the sixties when it was introduced by JCR Licklider who was responsible for allowing the development of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The vision of the future of the world that it could be connected entirely trough a web system that could provide in information,  data, programs, etc. from anywhere in the world. Other experts attribute the scientific concept of cloud computing to John McCarthy, who proposed the idea of computing as a utility, similar to utilities dating back to the sixties. John McCarthy, 1960: "Someday the computer will be organized as a public service.". Since the company began, it has developed along a number of lines. Web 2.0 is the latest evolution. However, as the Internet began offering no significant bandwidth until the nineties, the cloud computing has undergone something of a late developer. One of the first pioneers of cloud computing is the arrival of Salesforce.com in 1999, which maked better the concept of delivering enterprise applications via a simple web page. Services firm paved the way for both specialists and traditional software companies could publish their applications on the Internet. The next development was Amazon Web Services in 2002, which provides a set of cloud-based services, including storage, computation and even human intelligence factor. Another milestone occurred in 2009 when Google and others, began to offer browser-based applications. Services like Google Apps. Another of the key factors that have enabled it to evolve to cloud computing as the British and pioneer in cloud computing Jamie Turner, have been the virtualization technologies, the development of universal high-speed bandwidth and universal norms software interoperability.