Larry Ellison Quotes

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

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

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

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

I really worry about everything going to the cloud.

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.

Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.

To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads.

In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant.

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

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.

In the case of Comcast, we're taking a lot of our technology into the cloud, so you don't need a new box every time you want to innovate. And it's all speeding up.

Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.

All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

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.

I think everybody understands how important the cloud is.

I believe in the power of shared data and technology to help build a better future.

Oracle will continue to componentize all of its solutions so we can work in a heterogeneous environment.

In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is all going to get disrupted by the move to the cloud.

We want to be able to service our customers more, like an Internet service. Our goal is to run one of the largest Internet services that enables people to use Windows on an everyday basis.

We have, of course, all of our Oracle technologies in our cloud. But I don't think you're going to see customers wanting to deal with 50 clouds or 40 clouds or anything like that.

I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.

I'm a very big proponent of cloud. We've used it a lot in private sector, and as far as we can tell, it is not only more efficient, it's probably also more secure for lots of very complicated technical reasons. I think it's a very important thing for government to do, and also to have systems that talk to each other.

The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load.