Cloud Sherpas 2.0 (Part 2): A View from Inside the Creation of a Social Mobile Cloud Powerhouse

The following is the second in a series of articles that seeks to offer an inside perspective, from our own team members — the Cloud Sherpas, if you will — on our recent merger with GlobalOne.

Immediately following the announcement of Cloud Sherpas’ merger with GlobalOne on March 6, Event Coordinator and Social Media Marketing Manger Brittany Hall (@brittany_hall) and Senior Consultant Cyndi Zaino (@cyndizaino) invited members of Cloud Sherpas’ legacy teams across the world, as well as representatives of GlobalOne’s various offices in North America and Southeast Asia, to share their thoughts on what opportunities might lie ahead as Cloud Sherpas and GlobalOne joined together in unified mission. After the jump, read a sampling of some of the comments she received in response to the question from legacy Cloud Sherpas:

After the jump, read a sampling of some of the comments she received in response to the question from former GlobalOne employees:

“How Do You Think You and Your Team Will Benefit from the Merger?”

Stay tuned for Part 3, in which Manila-based marketing executive Karen Tomas will offer a unique perspective about one particular aspect of GlobalOne’s corporate culture that will live on through Cloud Sherpas. (Click here to read Part 1 in the series, which highlights several legacy Cloud Sherpas employees’ perspectives.)

Dale Rankine
Senior Mobility Consultant
Sydney

“The Mobility division looks forward to leveraging Cloud Sherpas’ strategic partnership with Google to help our team grow and develop our existing capabilities on the Andoid platform for mobile development.”

David Pauli
Enterprise Architect
San Francisco

“The Global Architecture group will be able to develop robust, cross-organizational solutions that can deliver tremendous value utilizing a world-class family of technologies and incredibly talented people. Customers will now have a partner to as a single point of contact to both architect and deliver cross-platform compatible solutions from the web-enabled laptop and mobile devices through the enterprise application stack; true value leveraging best of class people and technologies.”

Chuck Greiner
Senior Manager
New York City

“Participating and learning new technologies; collaborating with Cloud Sherpas in developing out new sales offerings; understanding the implementation challenges, best practices and solutions related to Google Apps — all of this will naturally expand our capabilities and help us in our mission to maximize the value of the cloud solutions we provide to our customers.”

Ellard Capiral
Technical Lead
Makati City (Manila)

“Its a great opportunity for members of our team to learn Google Apps. This is the future of the industry, and getting started on this platform represents a huge step toward greater success in the cloud. Together, GlobalOne and Cloud Sherpas — and their strategic partnerships with Salesforce.com and Google, respectively — undoubtedly will allow our combined enterprise to offer a broader spectrum of services to both new and existing customers, establishing a very competitive position for the new Cloud Sherpas within the marketplace.”

Karen Tomas
Marketing Executive,
Makati City (Manila)

“More heads combined create a more vibrant organization. I think the merger will help produce more creative outlets for the entire marketing team here in Manila while also helping individual members to hone new skills and to become even more competent in their existing areas of expertise. After all, this merger has just created a one-stop-shop for cloud services and solutions — there’s literally a world of new opportunity now awaiting us.”

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