Ruchi Sanghvi Quotes

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load.

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

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

We've been delivering cloud-based services for over a decade, with more than 30 million Intuit customers using offerings across a variety of desktop and mobile devices. The benefits are clear: online experiences are simply better for customer.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

'The cloud' is effectively an augmentation of our brains' memories.

The beautiful part of the cloud is, you know, it's unlimited capacity, in theory.

The cloud is this gigantic computing vehicle that delivers computing services to every single industry.

The debate between the cloud and on-premise is largely dead. The cloud has become mainstream.

I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a thumb drive.

The cloud removes the barriers to entry associated with traditional IT investments - meaning even the smallest companies can benefit from enterprise-class services.

This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this.

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

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.

Background updating is absolutely the future.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency.

AIR was born from thinking about how rich Internet applications would play out over time and what new pieces of technology would be in demand for these to go to their next generation.

The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

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

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

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.

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.