‘Tech should not be seen as merely IT territory’

Nowadays, all companies are tech companies because all of them are data firms — and data is business currency. “Business goals require technology enablement; that is why we are witnessing the role of CIO evolving to provide that strategic business enablement,” Ravi Naik, CIO & executive vice-president, Storage Services, Seagate Technology, tells Sudhir Chowdhary, in a recent interview. Excerpts: