In the early days of computing, CPU power and storage were very scarce, and so the cost of purchasing relevant equipment was very high. With the advances in the development of personal computing in the early 80s by Apple and Microsoft, more and more individuals and organizations have gained access to these computing devices. As the industry has developed the way chips are made and billions if not trillions of transistors are now put on single chips, the size of these computing devices has drastically reduced, from taking up entire rooms to comprising a single unit of a rack in the data center. When the computation speed and storage device capacity started increasing, individuals and enterprises started to realize that efficiently managing their computing resources was becoming a challenge.
The widespread use of the internet has also made...