Yesterday (4/27/2010), there were some great quotes from State of the Cloud: Boston.
The title of this post came from Tier 1 Research's Antonio Piraino.
Other good quotes included:
It is not about cloud, it is about an agile IT operating model -- Dave Roberts, VP Strategy ServiceMesh
It took God only six days to create the world because he had no installed base. -- Too busy writing this down. Forgot who said it. :-(
[on IT organizational transformation] Everyone can focus on what they do best, then go home early? Ask your IT team, can you do this better than Google? -- Jim Sokoloff, VistaPrint (I think. Not positive.)
Enterprises are realizing 12-15% CapEx savings from Cloud. -- Erich Clementi VP Strategy IBM
Clients telling us the CapEx to OpEx shift is not a reason to do cloud. We must show TCO savings. -- Erich Clementi VP Strategy IBM
Cloud is leading businesses towards a results-based services model. -- Jon Erickson CIO, Parlerai.com
Cloud allows businesses to exploit transient market opportunities. -- Author unknown. Sorry missed noting the author for this one.
Just do Cloud. Don't hire expensive consultants. -- Andrew Schroepfer, VP Strategy Rackspace.
Blah blah blah -- HP Distinguished Technologist who followed Rackspace and put everyone to sleep, confirming their point about expensive consultants.
Cloud is like High School "Relations". Everyone talks about it. Few people do it. Those who do it aren't good at it. Eventually, with the right partner it becomes great. -- Andrew Schroepfer, VP Strategy Rackspace.