Cloud technology's coming of age
Cloud technology has been around in various forms for a loooong time. Google answers the question "when was the cloud invented" with the answer "1960s", although scrolling down a bit the term "cloud computing" seems to have been first used in a paper in 1996.
There's no doubt that cloud didn't enter the mainstream until closer to 2006, when Amazon expanded into another revenue stream by allowing access to the tech that unedrpinned their monster of a shopping site. Amazon Web Services became the "go to" cloud platform and businesses started seriously considering whether to move from their own tightly controlled servers.
The concept of the cloud was at the start, appropriately, slightly nebulous. Skeptics wondered whether it was just a renaming of "the internet" and remote connectivity. What was really new?
Such is the risk of always being bleeding edge. Cloud deployments have moved on a ton since 2006, and the main change is the ecosystem surrounding the underlying technology. Computers have been programmed ever since they were invented, and coding gets more and more powerful and complex as layer and layer of instructure is created on top of what has gone before. The same is true for cloud tech.
In the month of September I'm hosting several podcasts exploring how the cloud can be used in 2020. Join me then as I learn exactly what new and powerful ways there are to exploit this now well-established infrastructure.
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4 年I remember one of our strategists whiteboarding "the future" and drawing a cloud, writing "the cloud" in it and drawing lines from all our products to the cloud. This was 1990. We thought he was slightly bonkers and Paul's cloud became a bit of a running joke, but we also recognised his vision and value so we started working out ways to move to the cloud. The company had an early commercial product on the internet and lived long enough to see the web era start in 1995, but didn't live long enough to see AWS.