3 Types of Cloud Computing…

1. Infrastructure as a Service.

2. Platform as a Service.

3 Types of Cloud Computing…

3. Software as a Service.

How people use it…

Business purposes

Social/personal purposes

Examples of Cloud Computing.

Facebook.

O2 Bluebook.

Email.

The History of Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing was a vague term for a very vague and distant future.

Users would not need to know or care about how the computers, their software, or the network functioned.

John McCarthy said that "computation may someday be organized as a public utility".

5 Key Events in the history of Cloud

Computing

1.) Launch Of Amazon Web Services in July 2002

2.) S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Launches in March 2006

3.) EC2 Launches in August 2006

4.) Launch of Google App Engine in April 2008

5.) Windows Azure launches Beta in November 2009

5 Key Events in the history of Cloud

Computing

Issues

LegalSecurity

Environmental

Legal

Security

“recession-hit companies are increasingly realising that simply by tapping into the cloud they can gain fast access to best-of-breed business applications or drastically boost their infrastructure resources, all at negligible cost”

David Binnings (2009) “The Top Five Cloud Computing Security Issues” computerweekly.com

Environmental

“Big data centers = big environmental footprints”

John Sheesley (2007)

Explained...

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/04/cloud.computing.hunt/