Amy Hood Quotes

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.

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

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.

If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

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

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.

Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer. Looking ahead a little, I firmly believe cloud - previously called grid computing - will become very widespread. It's much cheaper than buying your own computing infrastructure, or maybe you don't have the power to do what you want on your own computer.

Remember, the Cloud is just someone else's server.

Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.

Cloud represents the maturation of the IT industry.

Cloud is just emerging, but it's high growth.

Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly - you don't have to have extensive servers in every country.

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

Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.

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

Cloud computing is a fact of life.

There are very few industries that I know of - I mean, there are companies in fashion, in cosmetics. They're developing AI models and training them in the cloud in the beginning. If they're successful, they build their own datacenters and develop the software in their own datacenter, like Uber does.

Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

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

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.