Interesting Facts about Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has become the buzz word in the last decade. It has loads of advantages but a few limitations too.

Cloud technology has huge benefits and potential. In the near future we can expect all companies to shift to it in order to cut costs and secure their data.

We have collected some interesting facts about cloud computing and they should be an eye opener for some –

1. Cloud computing and software as a service are two different things, although they can be used interchangeably.
2. The first company to embrace the cloud network was Amazon Elastic Compute
3. The infrastructure in the form of a service is actually the provision of hardware that is virtually hosting and telecommunicating.
4. The service as a platform is the provision for development of a specific tool kit in the virtual sense. On the basis of this service other applications can be built.
5. The software when termed as a service has provision to host hardware for telecommunications. And it does not necessarily need to be virtualized.
6. Tim Berners Lee is credited with the development of World Wide Web in early 90’s.
7. The idea and concept of cloud computing was conceived in the 60’s, but was more accepted when internet became popular.
8. Almost 70% businesses are either using an older version of cloud computing or looking for an updated one.
9. 90% of Microsoft’s budget is spent on making new computing strategies and products related to it.
10. Almost 80% companies have shown tremendous growth in just six months of switching to cloud.
11. In the US alone 2% of the total electricity consumption is by data centers.
12. On inspecting the speed by which companies are shifting to cloud computing, almost 45 new plans of coal will be required to power data centers, by 2015.
13. For every 600 smart phones or 120 tablets a new server is added for cloud computing.