CII to submit draft on cloud policy in July

Infosys Limited, country’s second largest software exporter, is eyeing huge opportunities in the cloud computing space and is stressing the need to have a government policy framework in place to reap the benefits, according to Kris Gopalakrishnan, chief executive and managing director.

“CII is putting together a draft paper on the opportunities on cloud computing and what should be the policy framework on this. This (draft) will be submitted to the Centre next month,” said Gopalakrishnan.

Speaking to mediapersons after delivering a lecture at the College of Defence Management here on Friday, Gopalakrishnan said opportunities were huge for a country like India in providing citizen services on cloud. And, if we have the right regulatory framework, then we can accelerate, he added.

Replying to a query on the company’s focus on cloud, he said Infosys would concentrate more on core issues in cloud like transitioning companies towards cloud, running cloud services and offering new solutions. “Cloud services would form around 3 per cent of the total revenues of Infosys,” he said, while declining to comment further.

According to a senior official of the company, Infosys had already appointed 2,000 experts to work on cloud technologies. Gopalakrishnan, however, said some of the issues like data privacy and security should be addressed properly and it was possible only with a regulatory framework in place.

“We also need to have a regulatory framework to infuse confidence into clients that the service providers will deliver services securely and reliably. We need the framework to also ensure data privacy and these data centres should be located in India,” he said.