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<seo title="History of Cloud Hosting" metakeywords="cloud hosting,cloud computing,cloud storage" metadescription="History of Cloud Computing – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" /><div align=justify>'''The Idea of Cloud Computing'''


Cloud computing can be traced as far as the 1960s when the American computer scientist named John McCarthy stated that computing will become a publicly available service in the future. This is what has happened today and cloud computing has made it all possible. The advantages it offers such as ease of access, versatile service, and cost-effective means of obtaining computing services has made it highly prevalent in the contemporary times especially with the outpouring of developments in computer technology.

* '''The Past'''

In the past, massive computing was done through utility of supercomputers and mainframes. Supercomputers and mainframes are not bought solely as one package rather they are created by connecting several hundreds to thousands of central processing units (CPU) so that they can divide computing tasks among themselves to get the result faster. Industries specializing in Information Technology (IT) were the ones who are in high need of supercomputers to run and manage all of their computing needs.

The problem with this set-up arises from the cost needed to create a supercomputer or mainframe to the cost of maintaining it in optimal condition. To make a supercomputer or mainframe work, it is not enough to have CPUs lying around but they must be interconnected using a specific technologies, such as a network, so that they can communicate with each other and work as one bigger unit. Buying the devices and creating the tools already contribute to the large chunk of the cost of a supercomputer.

For prolonged usage of the supercomputer, it is needed to define a way to perform maintenance on it. This is to ensure that the supercomputer is performing at its best even if it has been created long time ago. This is also to guarantee the integrity of the data it outputs after massive computation.

The cost of past computing methods was very high and this has paved way into the discovery of more economical means that is used today.

* '''The Present'''

Today, massive computing can be done with utility of the service offered by a provider that specializes on this industry. It is the provider who has the infrastructure to perform in-depth computations and the provider manages the resources so that various users can efficiently share them. This makes the cost of computing lower compared with the utility of supercomputers in the past and this is the concept of cloud computing.

The term cloud pertains to the boundary of service given by the provider. It usually involves the infrastructure where computing is performed, the platform required to execute it, and the storage media such as a database infrastructure to keep information. Intelligent cloud computing is able to manage all of these resources efficiently and it is able to properly queue and de-queue users who share the cloud.

Proper management of resources and resource sharing is the one responsible for more affordable means of performing large computations. This is one of the main objectives of cloud computing and it has been successful so far.

* '''Tomorrow'''

As computer technology continue to progress so does the capability of cloud computing. As faster computers and larger virtual storage areas become available, cloud computing will also continuously improve with it. The noticeable effect will probably show on the improvement of the time it takes to perform computing processes. It can be possible in the future that data processed in an hour today can be done in just a minute. Faster processors and connections will be the main proponents of this improvement.

In addition to that, more intelligent software that manages the cloud can get developed in the future. ServerMotion has developed an advanced control panel interface to allow customers direct access to manipulate cloud resources. Not only does this allow the customer to directly control their costs at anytime, but also it allows cloud resources to scale instantly with the click of a button. With this, resources will be more efficiently shared and more users can get their own piece of service without affecting their operations. Efficiency, stability, and integrity will continuously be upheld in the future of cloud computing.</div>

''Taken from http://www.servermotion.com''
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