Satya Nadella Quotes

In addition to transitioning to the cloud, our customers continue to invest in premium versions of our on-prem server products like Window Server, System Center and SQL Server.

I think everybody understands how important the cloud is.

We've had a relationship with Microsoft for a while. It's bigger than just Xbox - we use Azure for some of our cloud stuff. PC Windows is a very big platform for us as well.

Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.

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

There are very few industries that I know of - I mean, there are companies in fashion, in cosmetics. They're developing AI models and training them in the cloud in the beginning. If they're successful, they build their own datacenters and develop the software in their own datacenter, like Uber does.

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.

Technological advances are changing what clients need, the services we provide, and how we interact with them.

There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud.

There has been an ebb and flow in enterprise IT of centralized versus distributed.

We're thrilled that our partnership with Adobe has now grown to span our three clouds - Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 - providing customers with the powerful integrations they need to navigate digital transformation.

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

I don't know how to back up.

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

'The cloud' is effectively an augmentation of our brains' memories.

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

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

The cloud is this gigantic computing vehicle that delivers computing services to every single industry.

Cloud computing is the third wave of the digital revolution.

If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center.

Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.

The cloud scalability is just amazing. So if you are, as an example, an NGO, a social enterprise, if you really want to scale the world, the cloud is just amazing.

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