Have a lot to say but just don’t have the words? These guys eloquently speak about how they view cloud computing. There’s been a few true gems that just need to be shared! Here’s ten of our favorite quotes.
Quotes about Cloud Computing
10. “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, late chairman of Apple (1997)
9.“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 at The Open Group
8. “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, Sun Microsystems
7. “The cloud services companies of all sizes…The cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.” –Marc Benioff
6. “With the cloud, individuals and small businesses can snap their fingers and instantly set up enterprise-class services.” –Roy Stephan, 2011
5. “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, Animoto CEO. 2009.
4. “Every kid coming out of Harvard, 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, Board Member of Facebook
3. “Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing.” –Paul Maritz, VMware CEO
2. “There’s no way that company exists in a year.” –Tom Siebel, founder, Siebel CRM Systems in 2001, speaking about SalesForce.
1. “There was a time when every household, town, farm or village had its own water well. Today, shared public utilities give us access to clean water by simply turning on the tap; cloud computing works in a similar fashion. Just like water from the tap in your kitchen, cloud computing services can be turned on or off quickly as needed. Like at the water company, there is a team of dedicated professionals making sure the service provided is safe, secure and available on a 24/7 basis. When the tap isn’t on, not only are you saving water, but you aren’t paying for resources you don’t currently need.” –Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO, United States Government, 2010.
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