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The history of technology and technology throughout history; human innovation from the first stone tool to the iPhone and beyond.
History of Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has developed its own cloud computing platform that allows people to use computing resources over the internet and pay for them the same way people pay for utilities. The history of this particular platform begins all the way back to the year 2005. In that year, Microsoft took over Grove Networks. For those who were not around back in the mid-2000s or those who were around but just did not care about tech giants back then, Groove Networks was a software company based in Beverly, Massachusetts that mostly focused on creating productivity software to allow multiple users to work on computer files at the same time. It was bought by Microsoft for $120 million US Dollars and Bill Gates, the CEO of Microsoft at the time, made the founder of Grooves one of the 3 chief technology officers of Microsoft to help with the company's attempts at innovation. This CTO, Ray Ozzie, began to spend approximately three years working on a project for a cloud operating system with other developers at Microsoft before announcing their new platform on October 2008 . This platform was called the Windows Azure Platform and it was announced to a massive crowed at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, California.
By Tyler McFadden4 years ago in 01
Intro To Cloud Computing History
Cloud computing is pretty much all over the news and being mentioned by practically every business that has to work with networking & computing. However, most people have no clue what cloud computing is or why it is treated as so important to various industries. Well, there is a very short definition that is provided by technical writer Wesley Chai: "Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the internet". Over the internet, you can get data storage, computing power, networking, and analytics from a company that can host all of the computing infrastructure for you. The cloud symbol being used to represent computing has been a thing since the year 1977 when a cloud symbol was used to represent networking of computers for ARPANET (the first wide-area packet-switched network and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite of communication protocols). In this case, the cloud was used as a metaphor for the Internet and the cloud-symbol was used to show a network of electronic devices communicating with one another. The term cloud was officially used to refer to platforms for distributed computing (computing where a software system is shared among multiple computers) as early as 1993 when Apple and AT&T used it to describe Telescript technologies. AT&T described it like this:
By Tyler McFadden4 years ago in 01
Augusta Savage
When Augusta Savage arrived in New York at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, she only had a few dollars in her pocket. However, she quickly found herself in the company of the prominent writers and activists of the 1920s, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey. Savage joined them while simultaneously combating poverty and racism. A plaster edition of Savage’s well-known Gamin was offered in the Two-Day Fine Art, Antique, & Jewelry Auction, presented by Case Antiques.
By Grace White4 years ago in 01
Platform as a Service History
PaaS, or platform as a service to use the full name, is a type of cloud computing. In fact, it is one of three types of cloud computing: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. PaaS is a type of cloud computing that, according to Wikipedia, "allows customers to provision, instantiate, run, and manage a modular bundle comprising a computing platform and one or more applications, without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching the application(s); and to allow developers to create, develop, and package such software bundles." Basically, infrastructure is provided over the internet that allows you to build and maintain applications for yourself or whatever company you are designing the application for. There are three well-known ways for cloud computing service providers to give their customers a PaaS service:
By Tyler McFadden4 years ago in 01
History of Software as a Service Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is seen as an interesting new emerging technology, but cloud computing has actually been around for decades in the form of software-as-a-service or SaaS for short. Now, SaaS is a form of software licensing and delivery where software is centrally hosted over the internet for others to use and usually licensed on a subscription basis. As techradar.com puts it in an article written by Brian Turner, “SaaS, is a cloud-based service where instead of downloading software your desktop PC or business network to run and update, you instead access an application via an internet browser. The software application could be anything from office software to unified communications among a wide range of other business apps that are available.”
By Tyler McFadden4 years ago in 01
Heritage Auctions
Heritage Auctions is both the largest collectibles auctioneer and the third-largest auction house in the world-leading Internet platform. HA.com boasts more than 1 million registered online bidders.com. This loyal and growing community is an indication of the value of our website, of our reputation for professional business practices, and of our vast expertise in the field of art and collectibles that this community is growing so rapidly.
By Jenna Miller4 years ago in 01
A Brief History of Computer Technology
A complete history of computing would include a multitude of diverse devices such as the ancient Chinese abacus, the Jacquard loom (1805) and Charles Babbage's ``analytical engine'' (1834). It would also include discussion of mechanical, analog and digital computing architectures. As late as the 1960s, mechanical devices, such as the Marchant calculator, still found widespread application in science and engineering. During the early days of electronic computing devices, there was much discussion about the relative merits of analog vs. digital computers. In fact, as late as the 1960s, analog computers were routinely used to solve systems of finite difference equations arising in oil reservoir modeling. In the end, digital computing devices proved to have the power, economics and scalability necessary to deal with large scale computations. Digital computers now dominate the computing world in all areas ranging from the hand calculator to the supercomputer and are pervasive throughout society. Therefore, this brief sketch of the development of scientific computing is limited to the area of digital, electronic computers.
By Subham thakur 4 years ago in 01
Why Do We Still Use Fax Machines In Medicine?
This article was previously published on Dr. James Goydos' Medium. When was the last time you used a fax machine? 2005, maybe 2010 at a push? There is a reason why this old technology has fallen out of favor. It is outdated, inefficient, and has simply been replaced by a myriad of newer, better, solutions that outpace the old system--not unlike how the Internet we use today outpaced dialup. But if you work in the medical field in America, chances are fairly likely that even if you haven’t used a fax machine yourself in the last decade, that you have at least walked past one on your daily rounds.
By James Goydos, MD4 years ago in 01
