Some things we take for granted so much that we don't even realize how present they are in our daily lives. In fact, as end-users, we often don't realize how fast things are moving in the technology industry.
Let's take one example: before Instagr.am became so popular, it was just one of those ideas that consisted of having an iPhone users post processed photos online and share it with their communities. aimee song net worth The idea is pretty simple, but anyone who has been managing internet servers would appreciate more so the complexity and how difficult it is to manage the servers that will manage all those uploaded photos. Not only do those servers have to be very well-connected on the internet so that the upload process is seamless, but then they have to be properly organized. Apart from that, there must be a fool-proof contingency plan that will allow the service to be online 99.9% of the time.
Indeed, having the Instagr.am service online means that some users in the US may be sleeping while others in the UK may want to upload some files. Not to mentions the fact that a failure in the system can be disastrous for the whole system: indeed, should issues happen, the IT administrators should be able to restore the most recent backup - and by most-recent backup, we're talking about the latest snapshot that has been taken a few seconds ago.
Now let's suppose that Instagr.am owners didn't have access to cloud-computing resources for developing their ideas: they would have had to invest into millions of dollars of IT infrastructure as a prerequisite to launching their product, with risk of finding out, possibly a few months later, that the product doesn't "stick". One can safely say that access to cloud-computing resources have definitely helped them with the "proof of concept" phase as well as during the exponential growth they have experienced. The pay-as-you-go model for cloud-based solutions have made it all possible, as well as the vision of the entrepreneurs of course - that definitely helped too.
But Instagr.am is not the only business idea that benefited from cloud-computing solutions. If we look around, we can see that most of the Apps in the mobile world have adopted cloud-computing solutions as part of their back-office IT system. Indeed, a teenager in the corner of their room can even develop a wonderful application just by working on the coding phase of the project, while the infrastructure that's used for "making it happen" rely on cloud computing: from data storage, to servers. If you look at it more closely, there are millions of Apps in the Google Play Market as well as the iTunes market: this is all made possible thanks to the easy access to cloud-computing solutions that perfectly adapt to every innovator's project.
Now I invite you to browse around the mobile apps market (either for Android or for Apple iOS): don't you think there are a lot of awesome (and sometimes unbelievable) ideas being implemented out there? Indeed, one can say that cloud-computing solutions have made it easier for developers to bring a concept or idea to reality "by passing" the huge investment that once was required before even being able to write a single digit of code.
