Cloud Adoption Quotes

I really worry about everything going to the cloud.

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

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

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.

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

Every customer wants to run on all the clouds.

It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis on helping business customers get up to that cloud with all the unique requirements they have. It's very exciting.

I think everybody understands how important the cloud is.

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

If you think about the market that we're in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that's happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.

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.

Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.

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.

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.