Cloud storage – History and information about it

Cloud computing has come a long way since it was first flagged as a forward-looking prospect by some researchers. The early history of cloud computing takes us back to the late twentieth century, when the provision of computing services began. The word “cloud” is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on the drawing of clouds used in the past to represent the telephone network, and later to represent the Internet in computer network diagrams as an abstraction of infrastructure underlying it represents.

Although we now see this software in a new way, in reality the concept of the cloud has been around for years. Sometime around 1955, John McCarthy, the computer scientist who created the term “artificial intelligence,” came up with the time-sharing theory, much like today’s cloud. The concept of time sharing refers to the concurrent sharing of a computational resource CPU runtime, Memory usage, etc, among many users.

After some time, around 1970, the concept of virtual machines (VMs) was created. The use of virtualization software such as VMware made it possible to run one or more operating systems at the same time in an isolated environment.

Not long after, the Department of Defense DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) gave birth to the networking system that later became the Internet.

Today talking about uploading data to Google Drive, iCloud, One Drive or Dropbox is something more than common. Our mobile backups or the photographs we take are automatically saved in one of these famous “clouds”, also web hosting companies use the term CloudSSD, or CloudVPS in their services. However, not many people know what the cloud is (also called Cloud Computing) exactly and that is the reason why we bring this article, to understand where this practice originated and how it evolved little by little over the years.

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