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Cloud computing providers
- MicrosoftOn the 4th of April 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen established Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their first product was a BASIC interpreter for the…
- GoogleIn August 1998, a check for $100,000 arrived at the front porch of David Cheriton's home in Palo Alto. Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems…
- Amazon (company)Jeff Bezos stood in the converted garage of his home in Bellevue, Washington, on the 5th of July 1994. He had just relocated from New York City to start an…
- IBMOn the 16th of June 1911, four separate companies merged in New York State to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
- Amazon Web ServicesIn the early 2000s, Amazon faced a critical internal crisis. Its engineering teams spent 70% of their time on undifferentiated heavy-lifting tasks like IT…
- Snowflake Inc.In July 2012, three men stood in San Mateo, California to launch a new company. Benoît Dageville and Thierry Cruanes had spent years as data architects at…
- Microsoft AzureIn October 2008, Microsoft unveiled a cloud computing project under the codename Project Red Dog at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
- Google Cloud PlatformIn April 2008, Google announced App Engine during a public presentation. This event marked the company's first entry into cloud computing services.