Aneel Bhusri Quotes

Each customer has unique deployment needs, and as a result, CIOs value the flexibility that our hybrid cloud offerings provide.

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.

Cloud is just emerging, but it's high growth.

The cloud removes the barriers to entry associated with traditional IT investments - meaning even the smallest companies can benefit from enterprise-class services.

If you think about the market that we're in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that's happening right now from legacy systems to the cloud is literally, by definition, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

… good luck and good timing are huge components of outsized success in entrepreneurial endeavors. Lots of things have to go right, and the planets have to align; that certainly happened in Amazon’s case. Our timing turned out to be very good. And so you can’t sit down to write a business plan and say you’re going to build a multibillion-dollar corporation; that’s unrealistic.

Cloud represents the maturation of the IT industry.

In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from beginning to end in a month or a few months.

Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly - you don't have to have extensive servers in every country.

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

I often don't know what I'll be working on next year or a year from now. There is often a chance meeting, or something that I worked on 10 years ago suddenly becomes important again.

The Accenture hybrid class solution for Microsoft Azure will provide a new wave for our clients to transform to a truly enterprise wide hybrid cloud environment.

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

Cloud computing is a fact of life.

I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.

'Luck' is recognizing when the situation encourages build out and execution.

For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.

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.

I have been fortunate to have my game peak at the right times.

It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.

Technology is a continuum. It's constantly getting lower-cost and easier to use, and you see that, and that's true with our company.

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.

The cloud is one of the most extraordinary opportunities of our lifetime. If we're not investing now, we'll rue the day we didn't.

The whole idea behind virtual integration is that it lets you meet customers' needs faster and more efficiently than any other model. With vertical integration, you can be an efficient producer - as long as the world isn't changing very much.