Over the years IT infrastructure that powers applications in today’s software driven world is much more dynamic, complex and hybrid than it used to be. This infographic takes a trip down the memory lane to showcase how it evolved and highlights some of key milestones that fueled it’s transformation. Download the full infogrpahic today. In order to meet this evolved IT infrastructure your monitoring approach needs to adapt. Evolve with CA Unified Infrastructure management. Sign up for your free trial here: http://cainc.to/kJ4Bkr

1. The History of IT Infrastructure
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1952
IBM® announces its first fully electronic
data processing system, the IBM 701 1956
First commercial usage of
hard disk storage drives begins1959
IBM® introduces two of its most important
computers: the 1401 Data Processing System
and the 1620 Data Processing System
1950s
1965
Thomas Marill and Lawrence G. Roberts create the first wide area network (WAN)
Bell Labs, MIT and General Electric develop a time-sharing
system that leads to UNIX®
1970s
1970
E.F. Codd from IBM® introduces the concept of
relational databases and the first normal form
1971
Floppy disk comes into being
1979
Oracle V2 as an early relational database
system—is the first commercially sold RDBMS
1980s
1980
CD Rom is introduced
MS-DOS® is announced by Microsoft®
1981
Personal computer —Microsoft®
1983
IBM® releases DB2® on its MVSTM
mainframe platform1984
Cisco sells routers supporting multiple network protocols
IBM® announces system/360 first family of computers
designed to cover the complete range of applications, from small
to large, both commercial and scientific
1985
Microsoft Windows® 1.101 is released as
a graphical interface for MS-DOS
1988
AS/400 is introduced (now called i5/OS™)
1989
SQL Server® 1.0 (16 bit) comes into being
Alon Cohen, who helped to found VocalTec Inc., invents a particular
type of audio transceiver that eventually makes VoIP possible
1990
Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau and other CERN scientists begin
to create the first actual incarnation of the World Wide Web
1991
Birth of Linux®— commencement of a personal
project by Finnish student, Linus Torvald
1993
Windows-NT® is released
Sybase and Microsoft® part ways
Red Hat is formed to bring open-source software products to
the enterprise community
1995
Windows® 95 is released
Amazon.com goes online and later becomes one
of the biggest internet retailers in the world
MySQL appears as an open-source database1996
The first release of Microsoft ExchangeTM
(4.0) outside of Microsoft® 1999
VMware workstation 1.0 is released—the
virtualization journey begins to take off
Salesforce is launched and pioneers the concept of
delivering enterprise applications through the cloud
1990s
2000
USB Drive comes into the picture
At the height of the dot-com bubble, Cisco
becomes the most valuable company in the world
2004
Facebook is formed as the
social media revolution begins
2005
youtube.com was activated
Citrix buys XenServer for $500 million
Hadoop is created by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella
2006
AWS EC2 is introduced as a commercial Web service
that allows you to rent machine in a “public cloud”
Google launches Google Apps for Business Domain
2007
Google Docs was made available to Google Apps users
2000s
2008
Citrix releases XenDesktop 2.0 in 2008
Hyper-V® launches alongside Windows Server® 2008 as the
virtualization wars begin
Cassandra is released as an open-source project on Google code in July 2008
The iPhone App Store opens and the mobile application phenomena
begins to explode
The Android market is announced by Google on August 28, 2008
At the Agile 2008 conference, Andrew Clay Shafer and Patrick
Debois discuss “Agile Infrastructure”
2009
Cisco, VMware and EMC develop convergred infrastructure
platforms called Vblock packages
Cisco launches Cisco UCS as a unified computing platform
MongoDB releases as the need for opensql databases grows
The term “DevOps” is popularized through a series of “DevOps
Days” starting in Belgium. Since then, there have been DevOps Days
conferences held in many countries worldwide
2010
Microsoft AzureTM
is launched
OpenStack is launched as an open-source cloud software initiative
2011
The Open Networking Foundation is founded to promote SDN and OpenFlow
2013
VMware launches vCloud
2014
Microsoft® and IBM® announce critical partnerships with Docker
Amazon Web Services (AWS) achieves $4.6 billion in revenue 2015
Amazon Cloud sales up nearly 82 percent in second quarter
Estimated 18.2 billion connected devices
1960s