Larry Ellison Quotes

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.

In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is all going to get disrupted by the move to the cloud.

There has been an ebb and flow in enterprise IT of centralized versus distributed.

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

At VMware, we did the virtualization, which is now used extensively across the cloud. Virtualization layers - and containers - are what facilitated the cloud originally.

If you believe that the mobile phone is the next supercomputer, which I do, you can imagine a datacenter that is modeled after, literally, hundreds or thousands or millions of mobile phones. They won't have screens on them, but there'll be millions of lightweight mobile-phone processors in the datacenter.

Our goal with the cloud is to make sure that our cloud and our cloud applications are available on every device in the world.

First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.

We have, of course, all of our Oracle technologies in our cloud. But I don't think you're going to see customers wanting to deal with 50 clouds or 40 clouds or anything like that.

I'm a very big proponent of cloud. We've used it a lot in private sector, and as far as we can tell, it is not only more efficient, it's probably also more secure for lots of very complicated technical reasons. I think it's a very important thing for government to do, and also to have systems that talk to each other.

We run the programs, and we support them through all of our folks, but usually the hardware is somewhere else.

Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.

I'm not claiming that we are the only guys who are going to succeed in the cloud. Others can succeed as well, just like in the previous generation.

The mobile-first, cloud-first is a very rich canvas for innovation - it is not the device that is mobile, it is the person that is mobile.

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

The data center side of the world is kind of like a solved problem, but you see interesting things happening on the edge with things like cell phones and embedded systems that are becoming really fascinating.

In the old days, I'd have to go as a company, buy computer resources, buy servers, buy storage, and lash it all together. It took a long time to stand up. Now, if I need, I can go to Amazon or Rackspace and buy some computer power nearly instantaneously.

Telco cloud and virtualization remain a clear priority for us, and we became the first vendor to supply a commercial telco cloud solution compliant with ETSI Architecture for end-to-end voice-over-LTE services.

PMC is producing incredibly large volumes of content, and we needed a flexible, customizable solution to manage the flow and distribution of our content. After considerable diligence, we decided to leverage WebDAM's platform due to its impressive cloud infrastructure that has proven it can scale with the rate of our business growth.

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

There's nothing slowing down about the shift to the cloud. I don't see anything on the horizon that is changing that.

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

There's going to be a symbiotic relationship between the edge and the cloud.

Cloud computing is the third wave of the digital revolution.

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.