The following graphics, courtesy of the Onyx Group, illustrate an excerpt of the history of cloud computing from the 1950s to 2014 alongside the estimate of cloud computing industry’s contemporary worth of $150B. The complete infographic reminds us of IBM’s development of a Virtual Machine (VM) operating system in the 1970s and the emergence of virtualized private networks in the telecommunications industry in the 1990s. The full infographic can be found here.
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