Infrastructure and Cloud Services

Infrastructure as a Service and Cloud Technologies

Cloud Computing’s low cost, exibility, and agility are well understood in today’s corporate environment. However, to fully exploit cloud technologies, you need to understand their best practices, main players, and limitations.

The concept of cloud computing has existed for 50 years, since the beginning of the Internet.  John McCarthy devised the idea of time-sharing in computers as a utility in 1957. Since then, the concept’s name has undergone several changes: from service bureau, to application service provider, to the Internet as a service, to cloud computing, and to software-defined datacenters, with each name having different nuances. However, the core concept is the same: providing IT services based on the Internet (the cloud).

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