IT Infrastructure Quotes

There is no good reason that the average 7-11 uses more information technology than the average doctor’s office. That is wrong….That is why government needs to give this a big push.

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

The need for mission-critical, high-performance network continues to grow as companies and public sector organizations everywhere digitize their operations.

You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete.

Dell's a company that has changed the IT landscape in making PCs and servers more affordable. There's enormous opportunities to make IT more accessible to tens of millions of companies, kind of democratizing the ability for companies to gain access to IT.

Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.

Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.

Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.

I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.

Also not the kind of place to hide a server." "Is that another pun?" She asked. "No! I swear! I didn't mean that one." ~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5

Here is what the world looked like in 2000... there were no plug and play solutions for ecommerce/warehouse management and customer service that could scale... which means that we had to employ 40+ engineers. Cloud computing did not exist, which means that we had to have a server farm and several IT people to insure that the site did not go down.

In the old days, I'd have to go as a company, buy computer resources, buy servers, buy storage, and lash it all together. It took a long time to stand up. Now, if I need, I can go to Amazon or Rackspace and buy some computer power nearly instantaneously.

In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.

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

So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading.

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

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

Cloud represents the maturation of the IT industry.

I believe tech should be a core skill of a tech company.

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.

It's important to have IT knowledge; it's important to increase every government agency's IT capability.

It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.

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