Cloud Computing Quotes

• Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.

  Jamais Cascio

  Cutting, Clouds, Data

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• Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing

  Paul Maritz

  Clouds, Computing

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• The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.

  Marc Benioff

  Clouds, Democracy, Size

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• The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.

  Richard Stallman

  Clouds, Interesting, Computing

  "Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman". Interview with Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Clouds, Computer, Centralization

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• Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Learning, Technology, Computer Literacy

  Nicholas Negroponte (2015). “Being Digital”, p.6, Vintage

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• 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

  Needs, Byzantine, Computer

  Steve Jobs Apple WWDC Keynote, www.onstartups.com. 1997.

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• The increasing presence of cloud computing and mobile smart phones is driving the digitization of everything across both consumer and enterprise domains. It is hard to imagine any area of human activity which is not being reengineered under this influence, either at present or in the very near future.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Smart, Phones, Clouds

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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

  School, Kids, Technology

  "The Charlie Rose Show", charlierose.com. February 19, 2009.

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• The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.

  Larry Ellison

  Fashion, Computer, Driven

  "Oracle's Ellison Nails Cloud Computing". www.cnet.com. September 26, 2008.

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• Cloud computing is actually a spectrum of things complementing one another and building on a foundation of sharing. Inherent dualities in the cloud computing phenomenon are spawning divergent strategies for cloud computing success. The public cloud, hybrid clouds, and private clouds now dot the landscape of IT based solutions. Because of that, the basic issues have moved from 'what is cloud' to 'how will cloud projects evolve'.

  Chris Howard

  Clouds, Issues, Foundation

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• Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A - Internet backbone. B - Information Superhighway. C - The Net. D - The Web. E - The Cloud. F - "Ubiquity" G- ???

  Bruce Sterling

  Clouds, Ubiquity, Information

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• 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

  Distance, Believe, Moving

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• 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

  Fashion, Talking, Ideas

  "Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• 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?

  Larry Ellison

  Talking, Ideas, Idiot

  "Oracle's Ellison Nails Cloud Computing". Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Speech, www.cnet.com. September 26, 2008.

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• The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

  Marc Andreessen

  Clouds, Years, Ideas

  "'Grandpa' Andreessen Says We Live in Dang Exciting Times". "All Things D" live blog, allthingsd.com. June 1, 2011.

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• In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Clouds, Romance

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• Microsoft and Dell have been building, implementing and operating massive cloud operations for years. Now we are extending our longstanding partnership to help usher in the new era of cloud computing, by giving customers and partners the ability to deploy the Windows Azure platform in their own datacenters.

  Bob Muglia

  Clouds, Years, Giving

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• I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

  Jamais Cascio

  Clouds, Fans, Huge

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