6. Evolution

Enterprise Cloud Computing is now a mature, stable, and cost effective option that was not necessarily available to to businesses in decades past.

In fact in the past 15 years or so, we I've seen companies demonstrate incredible vision, as they have brought new services to market. These new services have had a profound impact on the cloud as we know it today.

Companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and VMware,  have been some of the most significant pioneers in the world of cloud computing.

Key Milestones:

• 1998 - VMware, a Pioneer in Virtualization; a key building block in enabling cloud computing for almost 2 decades.
• 2002 - Amazon Web Services (AWS,) is launched which provided a vast array of cloud based Infrastructure Services.
• 2006 - Amazon (EC2) Elastic Computing Cloud is launched as a commercial services that enables companies and individuals to rent resources on which to run their applications.
• 2009 - Google, Microsoft, and others begin to offer browser based applications such as Office 365, and Google Apps.