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CANADIANLAWYERMAG.COM/INHOUSE MAY 2016
P r o f e s s i o n a l P r o f i l e
ONE SUNNY morning in Toronto this past summer, a group of
media, business people, and various dignitaries waited for mayor
John Tory to arrive at the Delta Toronto near the Air Canada
Centre for a surprise press conference hosted by Microsoft Canada.
Once the secret was out, however, it didn't matter that the
mayor was late. The reason for the event refl ected something many
people had been waiting much longer to come: a data centre that
would offer a local facility to host the computing infrastructure
and applications that Microsoft delivers via the cloud. Even though
he wasn't on site that day, Jonathan Leibtag was among those
applauding the news.
Advocate for
the cloud
Jonathan Leibtag never expected to specialize in
on-demand computing, but it's made his role
at Microsoft far more fulfi lling.
BY SHANE SCHICK
