Quotes About Cloud Computing

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

— Richard Stallman

“Creative Cloud is Adobe re-imagining itself amid a world of these three transformations - cloud, multiscreen and social computing - which are all happening at the same time.”

— Kevin Lynch

“They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.”

— Larry Ellison

“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.”

— Marc Andreessen

“In this new world, with smartphones and tablets and cloud computing, things are moving around fast.”

— Hector Ruiz

“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.”

— Marc Benioff

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

— Jamais Cascio

“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.”

— Jamais Cascio

“The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare.”

— Jamais Cascio

“Scanadu is right at the heart of the next generation of computing, which combines mobility, sensors, cloud and big data. I am bullish on Scanadu and its potential to revolutionize the way we think about our health.”

— Jerry Yang

“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.”

— Whitfield Diffie

“Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome.”

— Whitfield Diffie

“GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.”

— Jack Dangermond

“The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.”

— John Sununu

“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.”

— Satya Nadella

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

— Evgeny Morozov

“Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.”

— Marc Andreessen

“It's possible to do computing in the Cloud, PlayStation 4 can do computing in the Cloud. We do something today: Matchmaking is done in the Cloud and it works very well. If we think about things that don't work well ... Trying to boost the quality of the graphics, that won't work well in the Cloud.”

— Mark Cerny

“Microsoft and Dell have been building, implementing and operating massive cloud operations for years. Now we are extending our longstanding partnership to help usher in the new era of cloud computing, by giving customers and partners the ability to deploy the Windows Azure platform in their own datacenters.”

— Bob Muglia

“Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A - Internet backbone. B - Information Superhighway. C - The Net. D - The Web. E - The Cloud. F - "Ubiquity" G - ??? ...”

— Bruce Sterling

“Cloud computing is actually a spectrum of things complementing one another and building on a foundation of sharing. Inherent dualities in the cloud computing phenomenon are spawning divergent strategies for cloud computing success. The public cloud, hybrid clouds, and private clouds now dot the landscape of IT based solutions. Because of that, the basic issues have moved from 'what is cloud' to 'how will cloud projects evolve'.”

— Chris Howard

“Cloud is about how you do computing, not where you do computing”

— Paul Maritz

“The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.”

— Marc Andreessen