Best Cloud Computing Quotes
- “I don’t need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster… carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.” – Steve Jobs, Co-founder, CEO and Chairman, Apple Inc.
- “If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.” – Marc Benioff, Founder, CEO, and Chairman, Salesforce
- “With the cloud, individuals and small businesses can snap their fingers and instantly set up enterprise-class services.” – Roy Stephan, Founder and CEO, PierceMatrix
- The Cloud services companies of all sizes is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy. – Marc Benioff
- “Every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.” – Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, Board Member of Facebook
- “Ultimately, the cloud is the latest example of Schumpeterian creative destruction: creating wealth for those who exploit it, and leading to the demise of those that don’t.” – Joe Weinman, Senior VP, Telx; author of Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing
- “In the pre-cloud ERA, the cost of building software was so high that we often have to define a scope and leave out functionality which we feel doesn’t fetch the ROI for automation. Cloud makes whatever that was previously left out of scope as candidate for automation now! Thanks to simplification, access and affordability brought by IaaS and PaaS.” – Suresh Sambandam, Founder & CEO – OrangeScape
- “With the cloud, individuals and small businesses can snap their fingers and instantly set up enterprise-class services.” – Roy Stephan, Director IT Architecture & Engineering
- “If you want to be a viable cloud vendor selling products, you have no choice – your product must be multitenant in order to survive in the cloud world.” – Alok Misra, Co-founder & Principal – Navatar Group
- “Cloud computing is empowering, as anyone in any part of the world with internet connection and a credit card can run and manage applications in the state of the art global datacenters; companies leveraging cloud will be able to innovate cheaper and faster.” – Jamal Mazhar, Founder, and CEO, Kaavo
- “Cloud computing is really a no-brainer for any start-up because it allows you to test your business plan very quickly for little money. Every start-up, or even a division within a company that has an idea for something new, should be figuring out how to use cloud computing in its plan.” – Brad Jefferson, CEO – Animoto
- “Flying by the seat of the pants must have been a great experience for the magnificent men in the flying machines of days gone by, but no one would think of taking that risk with the lives of 500 passengers on a modern aircraft. The business managers of a modern enterprise should not have to take that risk either. We must develop standard cloud metrics and ROI models, so that they can have instruments to measure success.” – Dr. Chris Harding, Director for Interoperability and SOA – The Open Group
- “Cloud computing is often far more secure than traditional computing because companies like Google and Amazon can attract and retain cyber-security personnel of a higher quality than many governmental agencies.” – Vivek Kundra, former federal CIO of the United States
- “First to mind when asked what ‘the cloud’ is, a majority respond it’s either an actual cloud, the sky, or something related to weather.” – Citrix Cloud Survey Guide
- “The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?” – Larry Ellison, chairman, Oracle
- “If you think you’ve seen this movie before, you are right. Cloud computing is based on the time-sharing model we leveraged years ago before we could afford our own computers. The idea is to share computing power among many companies and people, thereby reducing the cost of that computing power to those who leverage it. The value of the timeshare and the core value of cloud computing are pretty much the same, only the resources these days are much better and more cost-effective.” – David Linthicum, author, Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise.
- I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow…….It’s cloud illusions I recall…..I really don’t know clouds at all – Judy Collins
- “Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing.” – Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware
- “The end of ‘Fashion-IT’ — customers will only pay for value and not technology.” – Sunny Ghosh, Director and CEO of Wolf Frameworks
- “With AWS a new server can be up and running in three minutes (it used to take Eli Lilly seven and a half weeks to deploy a server internally) and a 64-node Linux cluster can be online in five minutes (compared with three months internally)…The deployment time is really what impressed us.” – – Dave Powers, Associate Information Consultant at Eli Lilly
- “With the cloud, individuals and small businesses can snap their fingers and instantly set up enterprise-class services.” – Roy Stephan, Founder and CEO of PierceMatrix
- “We believe we’re moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin’ Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.” – Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems
- “I started the cloud-computing firm Nerdio to transform the way SMB buys & consumes IT. It can be daunting — it requires high expertise, familiarity with lots of tech, and the vetting and testing of lots of vendors. My decision is to make that entire process completely obsolete — you don’t have to worry about OS, storage, etc., it becomes background, handled by someone else. We’re packaging a whole IT system into something that’s easy to consume.” – Vadim Vladimirskiy, CEO of Nerdio
- “In the underworld, reality itself has elastic properties and is capable of being stretched into different definitions of the truth.” – Roderick Vincent, The Cause
- “Cloud is the digital wonderland of Internet of Things, powered by Artificial Intelligence and Big Data” – Enamul Haque, Digital Transformation Through Cloud Computing:
- “Navigating a complex system of cloud computing with an enterprise cybersecurity strategy is not an easy feat. A complex technological system works when designed correctly. However, adding the human factor as an element to this system is an ever-escalating paradox and a potential cyberthreat.” – Ludmila Morozova-Buss
- “The connectivity of the cloud and the prevalence of tablets and smartphones have eroded the traditional online/offline divide. Within a short time we will most probably stop thinking of it as ‘online.’ We will simply be connected, all the time, everywhere, and the online world will be notable only by its absence when that connection breaks.” – David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization
- “Just like the way a beautiful butterfly can’t come into life without its transformation cycle from egg to larva, caterpillar to pupa and finally to a brilliant creation, to become a successful digitally transformed organisation, similar transformational stages are essential.” – Enamul Haque, Digital Transformation Through Cloud Computing:
- The “Cloud Computing Rings” represent: Performance, Resilience, Data Sovereignty, Interoperability and Reversibility of a successfully integrated Cloud System.” – Ludmila Morozova-Bussva
- “Five interconnecting rings for the “Faster, higher, stronger” of Cloud Computing System. – David Amerland, Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization
- “With Cloud Computing, it is no longer a question of If, but rather When and How.” – Ludmila Morozova-Bussva
- “I started the cloud-computing firm Nerdio to transform the way SMB buys & consumes IT. It can be daunting — it requires high expertise, familiarity with lots of tech, and the vetting and testing of lots of vendors. My decision is to make that entire process completely obsolete — you don’t have to worry about OS, storage, etc., it becomes background, handled by someone else. We’re packaging a whole IT system into something that’s easy to consume.” – Vadim Vladimirskiy, CEO of Nerdio
- “Cloud is the digital wonderland of Internet of Things, powered by Artificial Intelligence and Big Data” – Enamul Haque, Digital Transformation Through Cloud Computing:
- “With AWS a new server can be up and running in three minutes (it used to take Eli Lilly seven and a half weeks to deploy a server internally) and a 64-node Linux cluster can be online in five minutes (compared with three months internally)…The deployment time is really what impressed us.” – – Dave Powers, Associate Information Consultant at Eli Lilly
- “With the cloud, individuals and small businesses can snap their fingers and instantly set up enterprise-class services.” – Roy Stephan, Founder and CEO of PierceMatrix
- “We believe we’re moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin’ Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.” – Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems
- “If you think you’ve seen this movie before, you are right. Cloud computing is based on the time-sharing model we leveraged years ago before we could afford our own computers. The idea is to share computing power among many companies and people, thereby reducing the cost of that computing power to those who leverage it. The value of time share and the core value of cloud computing are pretty much the same, only the resources these days are much better and more cost effective.” – David Linthicum, author, Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise
- “Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing.” – Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware
- “The end of ‘Fashion-IT’ — customers will only pay for value and not technology.” – Sunny Ghosh, Director and CEO of Wolf Frameworks
- “Cloud computing is often far more secure than traditional computing, because companies like Google and Amazon can attract and retain cyber-security personnel of a higher quality than many governmental agencies.” – Vivek Kundra, former federal CIO of the United States
- “First to mind when asked what ‘the cloud’ is, a majority respond it’s either an actual cloud, the sky, or something related to weather.” – Citrix Cloud Survey Guide
- “The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?” – Larry Ellison, chairman, Oracle
- “Cloud computing is really a no-brainer for any start-up because it allows you to test your business plan very quickly for little money. Every start-up, or even a division within a company that has an idea for something new, should be figuring out how to use cloud computing in its plan.” – Brad Jefferson, CEO – Animoto
- “Flying by the seat of the pants must have been a great experience for the magnificent men in the flying machines of days gone by, but no one would think of taking that risk with the lives of 500 passengers on a modern aircraft. The business managers of a modern enterprise should not have to take that risk either. We must develop standard cloud metrics and ROI models, so that they can have instruments to measure success.” – Dr. Chris Harding, Director for Interoperability and SOA – The Open Group
- “Cloud computing is empowering, as anyone in any part of the world with internet connection and a credit card can run and manage applications in the state of the art global datacenters; companies leveraging cloud will be able to innovate cheaper and faster.” – Jamal Mazhar, Founder, and CEO, Kaavo
- “The main element you cannot delegate to your cloud service provider is your responsibility for security, compliance, and customer trust.” – Stephane Nappo
- Understand the process! Enjoy success!” – Ludmila Morozova-Bussva
- Line of business leaders everywhere are bypassing IT departments to get applications from the cloud and paying for them like they would a magazine subscription. – Daryl Plummer
- Have a long-term focus and strategic objectives; acknowledge the complexity of an organization; recognize that scaling-up successful strategy requires (hyper)convergence of business objectives, data analytics, human-factors engineering, information and cyber security, regulatory compliance, cutting edge technologies… – Unknown