Cloud and Clear

Steve McGhee, Cloud Solutions Architect at Google Cloud, is one of the original greats in the SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) space and has been managing SRE teams at Google Cloud for over a decade. In this episode, Steve will explain how he helps businesses understand and apply SRE practices as well as empower their SRE teams. He also dives into how he rethinks "reliability as a problem set" and not the solution in order to define a truly reliable site (and why GCP is the best platform to do this on).

Host: Miles Ward

Guest: Steve McGhee

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Wrapping up a challenging and unexpected year, SADA's Executive Management Team joins this special year-end episode to look back on 2020 and dive into some of the biggest challenges from going fully remote. They'll discuss leadership during a pandemic and talk through some of the highlights from the year. The team also shares company goals for the upcoming year as well as what they're looking forward to in 2021.

Host: Tony SafoianGuests: Dana Berg, Miles Ward, Narine Galstian, Orkideh Shahidi

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In the midst of all the transformation that the world is currently going through, partnerships are more critical to success now than ever before. Vince Menzione, Founder of Ultimate Partnerships LLC, has made it his life's work to build successful partnerships to transform businesses in the tech industry. In this episode, Vince discusses the importance of having the right mindset towards partnerships during these times of transformations and sheds light on some guiding principles on partnering for success.

Host: Tony SafoianGuest: Vince Menzione

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With decades of expertise in driving digital transformation and Cloud Adoption, Lakshmi Sharma is now Director of Product Management, Network Experience, Performance, Reliability & Solutions at Google Cloud. She joins this episode to talk about developing the world's largest network with Google Cloud. Lakshmi shares what's changing in Google Cloud in terms of hybrid networking, including a new rollout that helps mission critical applications. They also discuss leading by example and the importance of hiring with diversity and inclusion at the forefront to enable ideas and perspectives for a global population.

Host: Miles Ward

Guest: Lakshmi Sharma

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Teena Piccione has spent over 18 years helping enterprises innovate by strategically determining better ways of working through Agile or DevOps environments and finding new monetization opportunities with data. Now the Managing Director for Telco, Media & Entertainment at Google Cloud, Teena joins this episode to discuss how Google Cloud is unlocking new possibilities in the TMEG (Telco, Media & Entertainment, Gaming) industry by helping customers better utilize data in order to remain competitive.

Host: Tony Safoian

Guest: Teena Piccione

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In 2015, Mario Ciabarra founded Quantum Metric, a platform for Continuous Product Design, which is a fundamentally new approach that helps organizations deliver digital products with greater impact, speed and confidence. In this episode, Mario explains how Quantum Metric solves for customer experience problems and why Google Cloud is unique in their success. He also dives into empowering teams from a leadership perspective and attributes that are critical for team culture.

Host: Tony SafoianGuest: Mario Ciabarra

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With 25 years experience of modernizing traditional enterprises, Stacy Trackey Meagher, Managing Director for North Central Region at Google Cloud, discusses how new technologies such as AI & ML are transforming companies like never before. She also dives into her strategy for building out new markets and territories, and why cultivating partner relationships plays such a huge role in their development.

Host: Tony SafoianGuest: Stacy Trackey Meagher

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Manish Sood, Chief Technology Officer, Founder and Chairman at Reltio joins to explain why bringing data management to the cloud was critical to the enterprise clients' performance and customer experience. He also touches on how they built an API-first platform to leverage the power of cloud. Sood discusses Reltio's unique customer problem-solving methodologies, the effects of the democratization of data, and gaining speed and agility from a microservices architecture.

Host: Tony Safoian

Guest: Manish Sood

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CEO of xMatters, Troy McAlpin, joins this episode to discuss xMatters' transition onto GCP, what uniquely differentiates them from other competitors, and how GCP enables them in such a way that no other Cloud Provider can. McAlpin also touches on his customer experience philosophy and how earning and exceeding customer satisfaction, day in and day out, should be the top priority for any SaaS company.

Host: Tony SafoianGuest: Troy McAlpin

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Nick Mehta, CEO at Gainsight, joins this episode to discuss the current and future state of the cloud and the impact these trends have on customers. Mehta also describes how his leadership style and the culture at Gainsight has evolved during these uncertain times.

Host: Tony Safoian

Guest: Nick Mehta

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The Customer Success Economy:

https://www.gainsight.com/blog/free-book-offer/

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