Much in tech has changed since Sam Sebastian first joined Google in 2006. Today, the Ohio-born executive is at the forefront of another major leap — cloud computing — as the Canadian head of Google Cloud’s operations.
Much in tech has changed since Sam Sebastian first joined Google in 2006. First, he and his colleagues were explaining newfangled “search advertising” to customers. Today, the Ohio-born executive is at the forefront of another major leap — cloud computing — as the Canadian head of Google Cloud’s operations.
To many average consumers, whether or not their favourite brands rely on the cloud or locally stored data is irrelevant. But firms like Google have made big business from convincing sometimes-reluctant CEOs to shell out for new operating systems capable of retrieving data from anywhere. I loved every minute of it. But I had the opportunity to be the CEO of Pelmorex Corp., a big brand that included the Weather Network and MétéoMédia. They had a business in Spain — Eltiempo. So, after 11 years at Google, an opportunity to go be a CEO of a strong Canadian brand that needed to digitally transform was too good of an opportunity to pass up.
You have a lot of leadership experience, but you’re new to cloud computing itself. Are you still learning about it as you go? Are you leaning on other people? How does that work? Then you have to go deeper and ask about the objections. They may say a cloud migration will take a long time, it’s not as secure as on-site storage, or there isn’t a specific solution for their industry. But we can counter each of these objections. So we have to talk at the highest level with the CEO to inspire them, and then work inside the organization, and with our partners.
Just look at Google. And you can look at Amazon as well. These are massive companies that built massive infrastructure targeted by the biggest cyber threats, both internally and externally, of any company in the world. And they’ve been secure. We’ve had to build so much threat detection, security and authentication protocols inside all of our own technology. Now, all we’re doing is making those same attributes available to customers.
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