1960: The underlying concept of cloud computing dates back to 1960, when John McCarthy opined that "computation may someday be organized as a public utility"; indeed it shares characteristics with service bureaus that date back to the 1960s. - Cloud computing, Wikipedia.

1968: Keith Raffel, founder of cloud computing pioneer UpShot Corp., and author (Smasher), class of 1968 - Palo Alto High School, Wikipedia.

1990s: The actual term "cloud" borrows from telephony in that telecommunications companies, who until the 1990s primarily offered dedicated point-to-point data circuits, began offering Virtual Private Network (VPN) services with comparable quality of service but at a much lower cost. - Cloud computing, Wikipedia.

1997: Chellappa gave the first academic definition of the term Cloud Computing in 1997. - Ramnath Chellappa, Wikipedia.

2000: However, since 2000, the idea has resurfaced in new forms (see application service provider and cloud computing.) - John McCarthy (computer scientist), Wikipedia.

2004: 3tera, Inc., (founded in 2004) is a developer of system software for utility computing and cloud computing. - 3tera, Wikipedia.

2005: Having found that the new cloud architecture resulted in significant internal efficiency improvements whereby small, fast-moving "two-pizza teams" could add new features faster and easier, Amazon started providing access to their systems through Amazon Web Services on a utility computing basis in 2005. - Cloud computing, Wikipedia.

2006: ThinDesk was founded in 2006 as a Desktop Virtualization Infrastructure and a version of Private Cloud Computing through its key partners TELUS and HP. - ThinDesk, Wikipedia.

2006: Skytap, Inc., founded in 2006, is a cloud computing provider that provides Virtual lab automation as a cloud service. - Skytap, Wikipedia.

March, 2007: Dell applied to trademark the term "cloud computing" (U.S. Trademark 77,139,082) in the United States. - Cloud computing, Wikipedia.

2007: Google, IBM, and a number of universities embarked on a large scale cloud computing research project. - Cloud computing, Wikipedia.

2007: The term cloud computing came into popularity, which is conceptually similar to the canonical Foster definition of grid computing (in terms of computing resources being consumed as electricity is from the power grid). - Grid computing, Wikipedia.

2007: The term was first used in the context of cloud computing in 2007 when Kevin Kelly opined that "eventually we'll have the intercloud, the cloud of clouds. - Intercloud, Wikipedia.

2007: Cloud computing (2007) Using the Internet as a large computational device - Word of the year, Wikipedia.

2007: Cloud computing, popularized during 2007,^[1] is an alternate term for network computing. - Network computing, Wikipedia.

June, 2007: It was one of the first cloud platform providers (having been in development since June 2007) and the company reports over 50,000 applications running on its service. - Heroku, Wikipedia.

October, 2007: IBM and Google announced the multi- university project designed to enhance students’ technical knowledge to address the challenges of cloud computing. - Cloud computing, Wikipedia.

November, 2007: The Free Software Foundation released the Affero General Public License, a version of GPLv3 intended to close a perceived legal loophole associated with free software designed to be run over a network. - Cloud computing, Wikipedia.

November, 2007: The M45 Project (or M45) is the name of a supercomputing cluster announced in November 2007 by Yahoo!. - Yahoo M45, Wikipedia.

February, 2008: When this was acquired by EMC in February 2008, Maritz briefly became President and General Manager of EMC Corporation's Cloud Computing division, before being appointed CEO of VMware (a public company majority-owned by EMC), on July 8, 2008 - replacing co-founder and CEO Diane Greene. - Paul Maritz, Wikipedia.

2008: During 2008 it became evident that Vogels was one of the architects behind Amazon’s approach to Cloud Computing, the Amazon Web Services (AWS). - Werner Vogels, Wikipedia.

2008: Gladinet, Inc. is a corporation located in the United States, founded in 2008 with the goal of turning the Internet into a virtual PC by integrating Cloud Services directly onto a PC desktop. - Gladinet, Wikipedia.

2008: The Animoto Facebook application experienced so much viral growth in April of 2008, that it became one of Amazon Web Services's cloud computing success stories. - Animoto, Wikipedia.

2008: At the 2008 Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced Azure Services Platform, a cloud-based operating system which Microsoft is developing. - Dave Cutler, Wikipedia.

2008: Information Week recognized Vogels for this educational and promotional role in Cloud Computing with the 2008 CIO/CTO of the Year award^[4]. - Werner Vogels, Wikipedia.

2008: Live Mesh was initially released as a technology preview, however, it was shortly updated to Beta on October 30, 2008 and at the same time incorporated as part of the Azure Services Platform - a "cloud" platform hosted at Microsoft data centers. - Windows Live Devices, Wikipedia.

June, 2008: He returned to Microsoft to work in a newly formed Cloud Computing Tools incubation team creating Visual Studio extensions to support development of applications for Microsoft's Windows Azure hosted services environment and Live Mesh / Live Framework client-side and offline web application environment. - Danny Thorpe, Wikipedia.

2008: Xcerion has received the Frost & Sullivan 2008 European Cloud Computing Product Innovation Award. - Icloud, Wikipedia.

July, 2008: HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! - Cloud computing, Wikipedia.

July, 2008: The "Notice of Allowance" the company received in July 2008 was cancelled in August, resulting in a formal rejection of the trademark application less than a week later. - Cloud computing, Wikipedia.

November 19, 2008: Global Language Monitor announced the most confusing yet frequently cited high tech buzzwords of 2008 to be cloud computing, green washing, and buzzword compliant followed by resonate, de-duping, and virtualization. - Global Language Monitor, Wikipedia.

January, 2009: Omnifone announced a partnership with Gracenote in January 2009^[34] to bring interoperable cloud based unlimited music services to multiple device platforms including in-car, in-home, PC and mobile devices. - Omnifone, Wikipedia.

February 20, 2009: In an announcement to the community on 20 February 2009, Mark Shuttleworth explained that 9.10 would focus on improvements in cloud computing on the server using Eucalyptus, further improvements in boot speed as well as development on the Netbook Remix. - List of Ubuntu releases, Wikipedia.

March 12, 2009: Ubuntu announced developer support for 3rd party cloud management platforms, such as for those used at Amazon EC2. - Ubuntu (operating system), Wikipedia.

March, 2009: SBS 3.0 was announced in early March 2009, adding cloud-based data analytics and reporting. - Jive Software, Wikipedia.

April, 2009: The National Science Foundation joined the ACCI and awarded approximately $5 million in grants to 14 academic institutions. - Cloud computing, Wikipedia.

April, 2009: The icloud cloud computing service was launched in public beta in April 2009 ^[11] and in December 2009 the premium version with 100 GB storage was launched. - Icloud, Wikipedia.

May, 2009: The company launched the Gladinet Cloud Desktop product. - Gladinet, Wikipedia.

2009: The majority of cloud computing infrastructure, as of 2009, consists of reliable services delivered through data centers and built on servers. - Cloud computing, Wikipedia.

2009: The incident caused a public loss of confidence in the concept of cloud computing, which has been plagued by a series of outages and data losses in 2009. - Microsoft data loss 2009, Wikipedia.

2009: TIBCO enters the grid computing and cloud computing markets by acquiring DataSynapse. - Tibco Software, Wikipedia.

2009: Cloud computing shapes up as big trend for 2009 - Cloud testing, Wikipedia.

2009: Petascale computing 1.026×10¹⁵ IBM Roadrunner 2009 Supercomputer 4.3×10¹⁵ Fastest computer system as of 2009 Folding@home Cloud computing 20×10¹⁵ Sequoia Circa 2011 - Orders of magnitude (computing), Wikipedia.

2009: Some of the topics for this year's (2009) technical paper includes: Cloud computing, Business intelligence, Software development, Security and Privacy and Web-based systems. - IBM CASCON, Wikipedia.

June, 2009: BMC received a "CIO 100 award" for "innovative use of an internal cloud computing environment to achieve maximum return on server and storage investments."^[14] - BMC Software, Wikipedia.

June, 2009: BMC received a "CIO 100 award" for "innovative use of an internal cloud computing environment to achieve maximum return on server and storage investments."^[14] - BMC Software, Wikipedia.

July, 2009: The institute signed an agreement with Yahoo's research division to do collaborative research for three years in Cloud Computing. - Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Wikipedia.

September 22, 2009: Zend Technologies announced the Simple Cloud API project for improving portability of PHP applications across all major cloud computing platforms. - Simple Cloud API, Wikipedia.

September, 2009: IDV presented at Microsoft’s Windows Azure World Tour in Reston, Virginia, where they spoke on creating value for public sector and commercial organization by taking advantage of Azure and different cloud-based data offerings. - IDV Solutions, Wikipedia.

October, 2009: For example, in October 2009, the lab announced that it would be embarking on a joint project to explore cloud computing for scientific purposes. - Argonne National Laboratory, Wikipedia.

November 17, 2009: Microsoft Corporation announced on 17 November 2009 it will launch its Windows Azure cloud computing system on 1 January 2010. - Azure (color), Wikipedia.

2010: CLOUD 2010 will be held on July 5-10, 2010 in Miami, Florida. - Cloud computing, Wikipedia.