Remember when half the population thought cloud computing affected the weather? The world has advanced a bit since then. Check out these incredible cloud computing quotes from industry leaders.

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20 Cloud Computing Quotes
That You Must Read

2. 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 these
non-connected
computers is byzantine
by comparison.”
-Steve Jobs, Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Apple Inc.

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

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“The cloud services companies of all
sizes…The cloud is for everyone. The
cloud is a democracy.”
-Marc Benioff, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Salesforce

6. “The end of ‘Fashion-IT’ —
customers will only pay for value
and not technology.”
-Sunny Ghosh, Director and CEO of Wolf Frameworks

7. “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, 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 bogged
down with definitions. I
tell them that, simply
put, cloud computing is
a better way to run your
business.”
-Marc Benioff, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Salesforce

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“Line-of-business leaders everywhere
are bypassing IT departments to get
applications from the cloud (also
known as software as a service, or
SaaS) and paying for them like they
would a magazine subscription. And
when the service is no longer
required, they can cancel that
subscription with no equipment left
unused in the corner.”
-Daryl Plummer, Managing Vice President and Distinguished Analyst
at Gartner

10. “Cloud computing is empowering, as anyone
in any part of world with internet connection
and a credit card can run and manage
applications in the state of the art global
datacenters; companies leveraging cloud
will 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 running
in three minutes (it used to take Eli Lilly seven
and a half weeks to deploy a server internally)
and a 64-node Linux cluster can be online in
five minutes (compared with three months
internally)…The deployment time is really what
impressed us.”
-Dave Powers, Associate Information Consultant at Eli Lilly and Company.

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“With the cloud,
individuals and small
businesses can snap
their fingers and instantly
set up enterprise-class
services.”
-Roy Stephan, Founder and CEO of PierceMatrix

13. “Cloudcomputingisoftenfar
moresecurethantraditional
computing,becausecompanies
likeGoogleandAmazoncan
attractandretaincyber-security
personnelofahigherqualitythan
manygovernmentalagencies.”
-Vivek Kundra, Executive Vice President at Salesforce.com

14. “There’s no way
that company
exists in a year.”
-Tom Siebel, Founder of Siebel CRM Systems, speaking
about Salesforce.com

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“If you think you’ve seen this movie before, you are right. Cloud
computing is based on the time-sharing model we leveraged
years ago before we could afford our own computers. The idea is
to share computing power among many companies and people,
thereby reducing the cost of that computing power to those who
leverage it. The value of time share and the core value of cloud
computing are pretty much the same, only the resources these
days are much better and more cost effective.”
-David Linthicum, author of Cloud Computing and SOA
Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide

16. “Discontinued products and services are
nothing new, of course, but what is new with
the coming of the cloud is the
discontinuation of services to which people
have entrusted a lot of personal or otherwise
important data — and in many cases
devoted a lot of time to creating and
organizing that data.
As businesses ratchet up their use of cloud
services, they’re going to struggle with
similar problems, sometimes on a much
greater scale. I don’t see any way around this
— it’s the price we pay for the convenience of
centralized apps and databases — but it’s
worth keeping in mind that in the cloud
we’re all guinea pigs, and that means we’re
all 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, the
Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You
get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you
blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact,
you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on
the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure
that 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 Web
services stack.”
-Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems

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“In the pre-cloud era, the cost of building
software was so high that we often have
to define a scope and leave out
functionality which we feel doesn’t fetch
the ROI for automation. Cloud makes
whatever 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 euphemism
for centralization of computer services
under one server.”
-Evgeny Morozov, author and technology skeptic

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“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, Research Vice President at Gartner

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“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, Co-founder of Netscape, Board Member
of Facebook

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-Vadim Vladimirskiy, CEO of Nerdio
“I started the cloud-computing firm
Nerdio to transform the way SMB
buys & consumes IT. It can be
daunting — it requires high expertise,
familiarity with lots of tech, and the
vetting and testing of lots of vendors.
My decision is to make that entire
process 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.”