Leveraging the Different Types of “Clouds” for Development

On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone to a buzzing crowd of Apple enthusiasts. It was the mark of a paradigm shift, because it ushered in the age of apps. But a much larger paradigm shift had occurred years before in 1996. At the headquarters of Compaq Computer, two executives, George Falvaro and Sean O’Sullivan, drafted a term called “cloud computing,” according to research…