I ran across these three quotes which provide 3 different perspectives on the values of Cloud computing.  I thought they would be interesting to consider while we develop our own plans of how to leverage the technology.

“Lower cost of market entry / application deployment, faster payback on development costs, and superior return on investment will make cloud-based platforms the target of choice for both entrepreneurial and enterprise developers.”

Peter Coffee

Director, Platform Research, Salesforce.com

“As cloud computing gains wider adoption, the concept of a site as we know it is changing significantly.  With content, technology, and infrastructure coming from multiple vendors in the ‘cloud,’ analyzing where the problem occurred and hence managing the end-user experience will become extremely complex.”

Ben Rushio

Director Web Performance Consulting, Keynote Systems

“Increasingly, individuals are characterized by a body of digital information.  And that information needs to live on over a period of decades – the rest of our lives – beyond the lifetime of any device you might have.  So everybody is going to need somebody to be the custodian of their information.  Just like we don’t put our money under the mattress anymore, we put it in the bank.  So most of us will become customers of an information bank and in so doing become dependent on the cloud.  You can see this trend already starting with hosted e-mail services like Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, etc.”

Paul Maritz

CEO, VMware