Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources and applications via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. The presentation discusses the history of cloud computing starting in 1999 with Salesforce.com pioneering software-as-a-service, followed by expansions from Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Google and others. It also covers the key characteristics like scalability, elasticity, and pay-per-use model, as well as the layers of cloud computing infrastructure, platform and software as a service and the advantages of lower costs and flexibility along with disadvantages of security and privacy concerns.

1. University of Technology
computer Engineering and information technology dept.
Presented by:
AFRAH SALMAN
Supervisor:
Dr. MUNA AL-NAYER

4. What is Cloud computing
“Cloud computing is a style of computing
where massively scalable IT-related capabilities
are provided as a service across the Internet to
multiple external customers”

5. “Computation may someday be organized as a public
utility."
1999 : Salesforce.com
“Pioneered the concept of delivering enterprise
applications via a simple website”
2000 : Microsoft
2001 : IBM
“Expanded Sass Concept through web service”
2005 : Amazon
2007 : Google and IBM “Start researching Cloud Computing”
2008 : Gartner Research
“Start using Cloud Computing in many
organization”
History of Cloud Computing

6. Characteristics

8. Layers of Cloud Computing

15. Advantages and disadvantages