The History of IT Infrastructure

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1952

IBM® announces its first fully electronic data processing system, the IBM 701  1956

First commercial usage of hard disk storage drives begins1959

IBM® introduces two of its most important computers: the 1401 Data Processing System

and the 1620 Data Processing System

1950s

1965

Thomas Marill and Lawrence G. Roberts create the first wide area network (WAN)

Bell Labs, MIT and General Electric develop a time-sharing system that leads to UNIX®

1970s

1970

E.F. Codd from IBM® introduces the concept of relational databases and the first normal form

1971

Floppy disk comes into being1979

Oracle V2 as an early relational database system—is the first commercially sold RDBMS

1980s

1980

CD Rom is introduced

MS-DOS® is announced by Microsoft® 1981

Personal computer —Microsoft®1983

IBM® releases DB2® on its MVSTM mainframe platform1984

Cisco sells routers supporting multiple network protocols

IBM® announces system/360 first family of computers designed to cover the complete range of applications, from small

to large, both commercial and scientific

1985

Microsoft Windows® 1.101 is released as a graphical interface for MS-DOS

1988

AS/400 is introduced (now called i5/OS™) 1989

SQL Server® 1.0 (16 bit) comes into being

Alon Cohen, who helped to found VocalTec Inc., invents a particular type of audio transceiver that eventually makes VoIP possible

1990

Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau and other CERN scientists begin to create the first actual incarnation of the World Wide Web

1991

Birth of Linux®— commencement of a personal project by Finnish student, Linus Torvald

1993

Windows-NT® is released

Sybase and Microsoft® part ways

Red Hat is formed to bring open-source software products to the enterprise community

1995

Windows® 95 is released

Amazon.com goes online and later becomes one of the biggest internet retailers in the world

MySQL appears as an open-source database1996

The first release of Microsoft ExchangeTM (4.0) outside of Microsoft® 1999

VMware workstation 1.0 is released—the virtualization journey begins to take off

Salesforce is launched and pioneers the concept of delivering enterprise applications through the cloud

1990s

2000

USB Drive comes into the picture

At the height of the dot-com bubble, Cisco becomes the most valuable company in the world

2004

Facebook is formed as the social media revolution begins

2005

youtube.com was activated

Citrix buys XenServer for $500 million

Hadoop is created by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella

2006

AWS EC2 is introduced as a commercial Web service that allows you to rent machine in a “public cloud”

Google launches Google Apps for Business Domain2007

Google Docs was made available to Google Apps users

2000s

2008

Citrix releases XenDesktop 2.0 in 2008

Hyper-V® launches alongside Windows Server® 2008 as the virtualization wars begin

Cassandra is released as an open-source project on Google code in July 2008

The iPhone App Store opens and the mobile application phenomena begins to explode

The Android market is announced by Google on August 28, 2008

At the Agile 2008 conference, Andrew Clay Shafer and Patrick Debois discuss “Agile Infrastructure”

2009

Cisco, VMware and EMC develop convergred infrastructure platforms called Vblock packages

Cisco launches Cisco UCS as a unified computing platform

MongoDB releases as the need for opensql databases grows

The term “DevOps” is popularized through a series of “DevOps Days” starting in Belgium. Since then, there have been DevOps Days

conferences held in many countries worldwide

2010

Microsoft AzureTM is launched

OpenStack is launched as an open-source cloud software initiative

2011

The Open Networking Foundation is founded to promote SDN and OpenFlow

2013

VMware launches vCloud2014

Microsoft® and IBM® announce critical partnerships with Docker

Amazon Web Services (AWS) achieves $4.6 billion in revenue 2015

Amazon Cloud sales up nearly 82 percent in second quarter

Estimated 18.2 billion connected devices

1960s