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20 Cloud Computing QuotesThat You Must Read

Cloud computing has completely changed the way businesses — and their consumers

— store and access their data.

Here’s what the experts have to say about its capabilities and what it means for the

future of IT.

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“I don’t need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster…carrying around thesenon-connectedcomputers is byzantineby comparison.”-Steve Jobs, Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Apple Inc.

“Cloud is about howyou do computing, not where you do computing.”-Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware

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“The cloud services companies of allsizes…The cloud is for everyone. The

cloud is a democracy.”-Marc Benioff, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Salesforce

“The end of ‘Fashion-IT’ —customers will only pay for value

and not technology.”-Sunny Ghosh, Director and CEO of Wolf Frameworks

“Every kid coming out of Harvard, everykid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloudcomputing, he actually has a shot.”- Marc Andreessen, Co-founder of Netscape, Board Member of Facebook

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“If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get boggeddown with definitions. I tell them that, simplyput, cloud computing isa better way to run yourbusiness.”-Marc Benioff, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Salesforce

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“Line-of-business leaders everywhereare bypassing IT departments to get

applications from the cloud (alsoknown as software as a service, or

SaaS) and paying for them like theywould a magazine subscription. And

when the service is no longerrequired, they can cancel that

subscription with no equipment leftunused in the corner.”

-Daryl Plummer, Managing Vice President and Distinguished Analystat Gartner

“Cloud computing is empowering, as anyonein any part of world with internet connectionand a credit card can run and manageapplications in the state of the art globaldatacenters; companies leveraging cloudwill be able to innovate cheaper and faster.”

-Jamal Mazhar, Founder and CEO of Kaavo

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“With AWS a new server can be up and runningin three minutes (it used to take Eli Lilly sevenand a half weeks to deploy a server internally)and a 64-node Linux cluster can be online infive minutes (compared with three monthsinternally)…The deployment time is really whatimpressed us.”-Dave Powers, Associate Information Consultant at Eli Lilly and Company.

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“With the cloud, individuals and smallbusinesses can snaptheir fingers and instantlyset up enterprise-classservices.”-Roy Stephan, Founder and CEO of PierceMatrix

“Cloud computingisoftenfarmore securethantraditional

computing, becausecompanieslikeGoogle and Amazon can

attractand retaincyber-securitypersonnelof a higherqualitythan

manygovernmentalagencies.”-Vivek Kundra, Executive Vice President at Salesforce.com

“There’s no waythat companyexists in a year.”-Tom Siebel, Founder of Siebel CRM Systems, speakingabout Salesforce.com

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“If you think you’ve seen this movie before, you are right. Cloudcomputing is based on the time-sharing model we leveragedyears ago before we could afford our own computers. The idea isto share computing power among many companies and people,thereby reducing the cost of that computing power to those wholeverage it. The value of time share and the core value of cloudcomputing are pretty much the same, only the resources thesedays are much better and more cost effective.”

-David Linthicum, author of Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide

“Discontinued products and services arenothing new, of course, but what is new withthe coming of the cloud is thediscontinuation of services to which peoplehave entrusted a lot of personal or otherwiseimportant data — and in many casesdevoted a lot of time to creating andorganizing that data.

As businesses ratchet up their use of cloudservices, they’re going to struggle withsimilar problems, sometimes on a muchgreater scale. I don’t see any way around this— it’s the price we pay for the convenience ofcentralized apps and databases — but it’sworth keeping in mind that in the cloudwe’re all guinea pigs, and that means we’reall dispensable. Caveat cloudster.”

-Nicholas Carr, author of books about technology and culture

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“We believe we’re moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, theIndustrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. Youget on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), youblog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact,you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating onthe Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructurethat goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age.We build that big friggin’ Webtone switch. It has security,directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Webservices stack.”

-Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems

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“In the pre-cloud era, the cost of buildingsoftware was so high that we often have

to define a scope and leave outfunctionality which we feel doesn’t fetch

the ROI for automation. Cloud makeswhatever that was previously left out of

scope as candidate for automation now! Thanks to simplification, access and

affordability brought by IaaS and PaaS.”

-Suresh Sambandam, Founder and CEO of OrangeScape

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“Cloud computing is a great euphemismfor centralization of computer services

under one server.”-Evgeny Morozov, author and technology skeptic

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“Cloud computing is actually a spectrum of thingscomplementing one another and building on a foundation ofsharing. Inherent dualities in the cloud computing phenomenonare spawning divergent strategies for cloud computing success.The public cloud, hybrid clouds, and private clouds now dot thelandscape of IT based solutions. Because of that, the basicissues have moved from ‘what is cloud’ to ‘how will cloudprojects evolve.”

-Chris Howard, Research Vice President at Gartner

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“In 2000, when my partnerBen Horowitz was CEO of

the first cloud computingcompany, Loudcloud, the

cost of a customer running a basic Internet application

was approximately$150,000 a month.”

-Marc Andreessen, Co-founder of Netscape, Board Memberof Facebook

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-Vadim Vladimirskiy, CEO of Nerdio

“I started the cloud-computing firmNerdio to transform the way SMB

buys & consumes IT. It can be daunting — it requires high expertise,

familiarity with lots of tech, and thevetting and testing of lots of vendors.

My decision is to make that entireprocess completely obsolete — you

don’t have to worry about OS, storage, etc., it becomes background, handled

by someone else. We’re packaging a whole IT system into something

that’s easy to consume.”