However, it wasn’t until the early 2000s that modern cloud infrastructure for business emerged.
The origins of cloud computing technology go back to the early 1960s when Dr. Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (link resides outside ibm.com), an American computer scientist and psychologist known as the "father of cloud computing", introduced the earliest ideas of global networking in a series of memos discussing an Intergalactic Computer Network. However, it wasn’t until the early 2000s that modern cloud infrastructure for business emerged.