The chief technology officer (CTO) of HR cloud provider Workday has said many IT chiefs appear unconcerned by government snooping and still see the cloud as vital to their enterprise software needs.
Speaking to V3, Annrai O’Toole said that while the PRISM revelations have certainly put data security and privacy back in the spotlight, it has not changed the market for most IT chiefs – a sentiment echoed by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff earlier this week.
“I don’t get the sense that CIOs are concerned
about governments snooping on their data,” he said. “I think people are
more concerned with making sure that they do things to make it very
difficult for people, whoever they are, to look at their data.”
On this point, O’Toole said the global nature of
data security and protection means many firms still see a dedicated
cloud provider as a better means of keeping data secure.
“It doesn’t change what you need to worry about.
If you have all your information on premise but it can be accessed
across the world, then you’re into all sorts of data-protection
regulations and making sure you apply the right policies,” he said.
“I think more and more people are realising they
have these issues and vendors like Workday can do a good job as we put a
lot of investment into being up to date with these regulations.”
As part of the ongoing push around its products
and providing benefits to customers, the IT chief said pushing more
analytical capabilities into Workday is high on the agenda for the next
year.
"I think a big part of the whole cloud story is
analytics. For me cloud itself isn’t so important, it’s the outcomes
that it engenders. These are driven by analytics, which is allied to
cloud computing, but it’s much bigger,’ he said.
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