Cloud computing has fundamentally changed how we work, live, and play. The global network of remote computers has grown into a staggering $214 billion industry by making data and applications more accessible to more people wherever they are connected to the Internet. It’s access to information and computing power that today many of us take for granted.

Before the cloud

This fundamental shift in how we interact with computers began in 1999 when Salesforce.com started the software as a service movement. By moving computing power into the cloud and turning computing hardware into software, companies were now able to pay as they went, scale up and scale down at will, and manage their infrastructures without the need for deep networking and IT expertise. On technology’s timeline, it was as evolutionary as the internet was revolutionary.

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