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Quotes About Cloud computing

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
If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
~ Sam Altman
Netflix, despite the fact that they compete very aggressively with Prime Video on the Amazon side, they run everything on top of AWS and have for several years - same with Disney, Warner, Fox, HBO and Turner, they all run on AWS.
~ Andy Jassy
From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to the company's future. Because innovation in the future will either be from the cloud out to all devices, or from devices as supported by software in the cloud.
~ Steve Ballmer
Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
~ Safra A. Catz
The smartphone created a huge economy, the cloud created a huge economy.
~ Eric Yuan
There is a $30 bn. opportunity in the cloud.
~ Jean-Philippe Courtois
Cloud is just emerging, but it's high growth.
~ Satya Nadella
The enterprise cloud is a very secure cloud at this point.
~ Aneel Bhusri
Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.
~ Evgeny Morozov
I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.
~ Audrey MacLean
If you believe developers will build applications from scratch using web services as primitive building blocks, then the operating system becomes the Internet.
~ Andy Jassy
Scanadu is right at the heart of the next generation of computing, which combines mobility, sensors, cloud and big data. I am bullish on Scanadu and its potential to revolutionize the way we think about our health.
~ Jerry Yang
Every customer wants to run on all the clouds.
~ Diane Greene
Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
~ Larry Ellison
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
If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center.
~ Peter Levine
Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly - you don't have to have extensive servers in every country.
~ Alan Patricof
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
Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
~ Larry Ellison
The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare.
~ Jamais Cascio
You can't replace luck and timing. With Workday, our timing was perfect. We started in 2005 right as cloud computing was beginning to take off.
~ Aneel Bhusri
I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.
~ Jamais Cascio
Thanks to the rise of cloud computing, collaboration tools are becoming increasingly affordable, allowing even the smallest firms to implement enterprise-grade solutions that can significantly improve communication lines between employees and customers.
~ Jean-Philippe Courtois