Cloud Infrastructure Quotes

I really worry about everything going to the cloud.

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

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

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.

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.

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

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

The smartphone created a huge economy, the cloud created a huge economy.

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.

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.

People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.

In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That's both because of the physicality of computing - where the speed of light still matters - and because of geopolitics.

We believe that cloud will be based on significant open-source components that are offered as services. People don't want to be locked into a single provider.

I think everybody understands how important the cloud is.

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.

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

AI cloud is just very, very nascent.

We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.

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

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.

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

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!

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