Q&A: Raj Samani, CTO McAfee
We spoke to the man in charge of the security firm's technology agenda in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).


How big a role will cloud computing play in your organisation in the next three years? What other technologies are you watching?
Cloud computing will not only impact the business but every aspect of our personal lives.
We are already beginning to see these changes manifest themselves through online personal storage, and content providers.
There are many other technologies that demand real focus, for example mobility, which in some way is related to the endpoint evolution (e.g. it used to be PCs and servers but now includes everything from TVs to SCADA devices).
What are the most important criterion you use to make decisions that impact your business and why?
Return on Investment ROI) will what we are doing demonstrate business value?
Is there anything else you care to add?
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Raj was a delegate at the CIO Event, held this week in Wales.
Maggie has been a journalist since 1999, starting her career as an editorial assistant on then-weekly magazine Computing, before working her way up to senior reporter level. In 2006, just weeks before ITPro was launched, Maggie joined Dennis Publishing as a reporter. Having worked her way up to editor of ITPro, she was appointed group editor of CloudPro and ITPro in April 2012. She became the editorial director and took responsibility for ChannelPro, in 2016.
Her areas of particular interest, aside from cloud, include management and C-level issues, the business value of technology, green and environmental issues and careers to name but a few.
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