Snapchat CTO and co founder Bobby Murphy to appear at Google Cloud Platform Live on March 25

Bobby Murphy, CTO and co-founder of Snapchat, will be joining Google Senior Vice President Urs Hölzle on stage during the keynote of Google Cloud Platform Live. Bobby will be sharing his experience building one of the world’s most popular apps on Google Cloud Platform.



Snapchat’s users share over 400 million snaps everyday.



Google Cloud Platform Live is taking place 3 weeks from today. Bobby will be joining a great line up of other speakers, including Google Senior Fellow Jeff Dean. We’ll announce new features, take a deep dive on tips, tricks and technology, and share our vision for the future of cloud computing.



We are nearly at capacity in all our locations, but for people who are still interested in attending you can request an invitation to join us in-person in San Francisco or attend a livestream of the keynote at Google New York City, Google Seattle or Google London. And for those who can’t make it in person, you can always tune in online.



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Workday plans analytics push as PRISM fails to stop cloud use

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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