Aneel Bhusri Quotes

I think everybody understands how important the cloud is.

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

The industry trend is that everything is moving to the cloud, and most of our customers are in this very heterogeneous world.

I am convinced that as we move more towards cloud services, there is going to be a greater need for connectivity.

Candidly, when you go back to '07 or '08, it was hard to sell cloud. We started out by focusing on large enterprises on day one. Everybody thought cloud was for SMBs (small and mid-size businesses), but we made the leap that it was going to be for large enterprises, that they were going to replace their core systems.

I really worry about everything going to the cloud.

Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology is huge. The amount of work it requires to store, scale and move this data is pretty intense.

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.

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.

Cloud represents the maturation of the IT industry.

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

This whole cloud phenomenon is gaining steam pretty rapidly, and it's really become a strategic imperative for people.

'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 scalability is just amazing. So if you are, as an example, an NGO, a social enterprise, if you really want to scale the world, the cloud is just amazing.

Cloud computing is a fact of life.

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.

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

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

Providing 'freemium' cloud storage to society is not a crime. What will Hollywood do when smartphones and tablets can wirelessly transfer a movie file within milliseconds?

Each customer has unique deployment needs, and as a result, CIOs value the flexibility that our hybrid cloud offerings provide.

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.

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

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.