Hello! My name is Louis Corso, a new sales rep who joined ENKI to bother all of you. Hopefully you and I will become great friends in the way that this social media stuff intends us to, but in the mean time, here are a few interesting facts to keep in mind.

-          I'm a 24 year old Silicon Valley resident... depending upon who you ask, this is either a good thing or a bad thing... the way I see it is this: I grew up immersed in IT because of my age, family ties, and home town (Cupertino, CA). This is never bad.

-          I love Apple products. I've sold them, I've used them, I've forced other people to use them, including COO Eric Novikoff, who will be buying his Macbook Pro soon enough.

-          I am a sports nut. If I wasn't talking to you about IT right now, I would be talking to you about the San Jose Sharks, who play tonight, and whose jersey is draped over my chair.

Now that we have that out of the way, let's get down to something more interesting, namely this:

TechPulse360 posted this video on YouTube earlier this week. In it, Larry Ellison presents some insights about cloud computing, along with some pretty funny nonsequetous rants. I figured I would talk about the highlights. :)

0:10 My objection to cloud computing is... Cloud computing is not only the future of computing, it is the present, and the entire past of computing is all cloud.

Thank you Larry! This statement really gets to the core of what this whole new way of thinking about computing really is... just computing. The next quote will tell you what I mean by that.

1:25 It's not water vapor. All it is is a computer attached to a network... It's databases, and operating systems, and memory, and microprocessors, and the internet.

I got a laugh out of this because we have been having these kinds of conversations behind the scenes at ENKI for some time now.  So many times, we have talked to customers who are stuck in the rut of thinking that cloud computing represents something foreign. In reality, our data center has the same stuff in it that everyone else's does. Once people realize this, we can stop being scared and start talking about the real problems cloud computing can address.

2:55 Are we dead by cloud computing? Is Intel dead? There'd be no microprocessors in the cloud? Is Samsung dead? There'd be no memory in the cloud? Is Cisco dead because there's no networking in the cloud? Are we dead because there's no databases in the cloud, no applications in the cloud, no middleware in the cloud? The answer is no. All a cloud is is computers in a network.

As I sat down to write this article, I didn't realize that there was a core theme running through each of these quotes. I have more, but I don't really think I need to share them for you to see what Larry Ellison (and I) are trying to get at: the cloud isn't nearly as scary, or foreign, or new as many people think.

3:25 In terms of business model, you could say, ‘Oh, it's rental.'

I read a really great quote on TechCrunchIt's forum about this video, credited to Sean Mahoney: "It would be like asking a farmer if he is worried about the new trend of ‘restaurants.' People still eat, even if they consume in a different way." What we are offering our customers is a different way, I think a better way, to ‘consume' the same thing they've always needed.