Cloud Computing: The 50 Most Powerful People In Enterprise Tech
June 30, 2013
Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Julie Bort.
Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle. Year, after year, decade after decade, Ellison’s power grows along with Oracle’s. He has crafted his most ambitious plan yet for the software giant: to turn it into a hardware and data center giant. Although Oracle hasn’t hit its stride with these new plans yet, it’s hard to doubt the man. He’s been successful at almost everything he’s done, including winning the most prestigious sailing race ever: The America’s Cup. He brought the 2013 race to his home base in San Francisco this summer to try and win again.
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft. Ballmer has given Microsoft a no-holds-barred makeover, including getting into the PC business with Surface, launching a radically different version of Windows, and revamping its software for the cloud. While some of these plans have been off to a rocky start, particularly Windows 8 and Surface, Ballmer’s got his eye on Microsoft’s long-term future. Enterprises are still likely to slowly buy into his vision…
John Chambers, chairman and CEO, Cisco. Chambers has been CEO of Cisco Systems since 1995. Although he’s been talking about his retirement more now than he ever has, he’s still running the company with all his might. He’s trying to navigate Cisco past its roots as a network equipment company becoming a bigger IT company that competes with IBM and HP. He needs to succeed because new technologies called software-defined networking threaten the way networks will be built and Cisco’s stronghold on that market…
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