On a cloudless, beautiful late October evening, our invited guests and the Summa team assembled to Explore the Cloud through the lens of our three great speakers. The Heinz History Center served as an appropriate venue with Pittsburgh’s rich history on display. Appropriately, we learned a little known, historic factoid from one of our guest speakers, David Linthicum. He shared the origins of the term “Cloud Computing”, having been invented over thirty years ago by Western Union but only recently popularized after multiple attempts to enlist a sustainable description for the distributed computing model. Dave shared his insights on the cloud market, depicting it as an evolution to a more optimized, cost effective and elastic approach for enterprise computing while acknowledging that the market is still maturing.
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