Chromebook with Intel with Angela Gosz and Courtney Harrison

Google Cloud Platform Podcast

• Episode: Chromebook with Intel with Angela Gosz and Courtney Harrison
• Website: Google Cloud Platform Podcast
• Feed URL: https://feeds.feedburner.com/GcpPodcast
• Duration: 00:36:48
• Published: 2021-03-10 01:00

Jenny Brown and Mark Mirchandani are back this week to celebrate a special anniversary! This year marks a ten year partnership between Google and Intel, and our guests, Angela Gosz and Courtney Harrison, are here to reflect on the past and tell us about the future of Chromebook and Chrome OS. Chrome OS running on Chromebook with Intel enables users to get the most out of their Google Cloud products.

Our guests describe the main groups of Chromebook users and how the ease of use, portability, and customization benefits each. The Google Admin Console allows more than 500 customizable security features to tailor the experience for employees or end customers, Angela explains. The changes brought on by the pandemic meant more companies had to support a distributed business, and Chromebook with the Admin Console has been able to facilitate this transition easily. With the new ZTE program, Chromebooks can be sent directly to employees, bypassing IT. The computers can be configured through the console without any physical contact.

Courtney tells us her experiences with Chromebook at Intel and how the automatic updates, computing speed, and other features have made her job easier. She explains the process of working with Google to develop the hardware needed for Chromebook and how the cloud comes into play for maximum performance. We talk about many of the other Chromebook options offered and what options will be available in the future.

Angela Gosz

Angela Gosz is a Customer Success Manager on the Chrome Enterprise Team, based out of Google Chicago. With 17 years of experience in the IT Industry, Angela has been on the leading edge of digital transformation implementations, supporting Enterprise organizations and partners to adopt and optimize their endpoint computing strategy - especially in Healthcare. Today she ensures customers realize the full potential of their investment in Chrome OS as a cloud-first endpoint. Outside of work, she has been meditating daily for 5 years, teaches yoga and is a certified Reiki practitioner. Angela holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Courtney Harrison

Courtney is an Account Director with Intel Corporation based in the San Francisco Bay area. Currently Courtney leads a team that supports all of the Intel business interactions with Alphabet and Google. A twenty-one year Intel veteran, Courtney has spent the past fifteen years in field sales working with top multi-national customers and local OEMs. Courtney began her career at Intel in CPU operations. Courtney has both a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from Stanford University in Industrial Engineering.

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• A new podcast explores the unseen world of data centers blog
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• Save the date for Google Cloud Next ‘21: October 12-14, 2021 blog

Interview

• Intel site
• Chromebook site
• Chrome OS site
• Chromebook turns 10 site
• Building the future of business computing: 10 years of Chrome OS blog
• Form Factor Portfolio site
• Deploy devices with zero-touch enrollment site
• Thunderbolt site
• WiFi 6 site
• CloudReady site
• MCA site

What’s something cool you’re working on?

Mark is working on Costs meet code with programmatic budget notifications.

Sound Effects Attribution

• “LeDancing” by Frankum of Freesound.org
• “Jingle Romantic” by Jay_You of Freesound.org