Steven Wong Week 5 Discussion Board 2 CS875

 Hello professor and class. While the idea of networked information technology is being used for generations, the estimation or prediction that companies will widely foster cloud-based information technology services for essential Information Technology operations is a classic instance of a forecast that could become a reality one day. This is not a lone prediction by one person or group, the basic trajectory was estimated by a lot of professionals in the technology profession beginning in the late 1990's and early 2000s. Businesses like Sales Force were the first to use the technology, but the bigger integration by companies like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure created the foundation for how real cloud computing can be as a technological solution.

Summary:

The forecast of estimation was that companies can move away from platforms and keep up their own data centers and Information Technology architecture instead of using a third party company to provide resources for computers, software applications, and the storage of information on the Internet "the cloud". This process implemented everything from essential architecture like servers, and networks to platforms for software creation and software as service applications like emails.

Forces influencing success:

1. Cost efficiency and scalability: one of the greatest motivators was the possibility for cost savings, Cloud computing provides a live pay as needed architecture, getting rid of large capital solutions necessary for developing and keeping up an in house model. In continuation, it permits companies to facilitate the scale of their resources to increase or decrease as supply and demand needs modifications, giving elasticity and omitting over supervisions. This issue went through communication with companies of any quantity of workers, but specifically new companies and smaller organizations that did not have the resources for big computing investments.
2. Using more bandwidth and making the cloud more reliable: The great and broadened availability of optimized Internet accessibility is important. Cloud computing is dependent on a strong and reliable network connection. As broadband architectures improved intermittently the ease of use and simplicity of relying on cloud-based platforms increased significantly. If this cloud architecture does not exist, there would be no cloud based technology revolution. Slow paced and inconsistent internet connection would have made cloud based software unable to be used by many companies and organizations.

While identifying a single "forecast" or "prediction" is not easy, as a large quantity of articles and documentation mentions the vast change of the cloud technology and the prediction science around the innovation. For subject matter and perspective, using the search engine with terms like "background of cloud computing" or "beginning forecasts of cloud technology" will reap a lot of resources for this subject at the Colorado Technical University library website. For instance, articles and documents from Garther and Forester frequently mentioned the increasing modifications in the beginning of cloud computing. As a drawback, a large quantity of articles are hidden beneath pay walls in today's online research environment. Despite that fact, a basic search engine inquiry "cloud computing history" will give a nice start to research goals. Your response to my post is very appreciated. Please do not feel obligated to respond to my post. I would like everyone's feedback so that I can have a well-rounded perspective of the topic being discussed this week.

References:

Armburst, M., Fox, A., Griffith, R., Joseph, A.D., Katz, R., Konowinski, A., & Zaihoria, M., (2010). A view of Cloud Computing. Communications of the ACM, 53(4), 50-58.

Buyya, R., Yeo, C.S., Venugopal, S., Broberg, J., & Bandicoot, I., (2009). Cloud Computing and Emerging IT Platforms: Vision, hype, and reality of delivering computing OS the 5th Uility. Future Generation Computer Systems 25(6), 599-616.

Gather(2024). Hyper Cycle of Emerging Technologies

Miller, M.(2008). Cloud Computing: Web-based applications that change the way you want and collaborate online. Que Publishing.

-Steven Christopher Wong

Doctoral of Computer Science Student

Colorado Techinical University