At its earliest, CompuServe in 1983 offered its customers 128k of disk space which could be used to store files. Cloud StorageĬloud Storage means storage of data away from users’ local systems and across the span of dedicated servers which are meant for this. Mainly, three types of Services come associated with Cloud which are: SaaS ( Software as a Service) for allowing users to access other publically available clouds of large organizations for storing their data like Gmail, PaaS ( Platform as a Service) for hosting of apps or software on Others public cloud ex: Google App Engine which hosts apps of users, IaaS ( Infrastructure as a Service) for virtualizing any physical machine and availing it to customers to make them get feel of a real machine. Nowadays, Cloud computing is used by small as well as large organizations for data storage or providing customers with its advantages which are listed above. Going by the name, in a technical field, Cloud is something that is virtual and provides services to end-users in the form of storage, hosting of apps or virtualizing any physical space. The cloud by the name indicates something which is very huge and present over a large area.
