The CTO Advisor: Recent Episodes
The CTO Advisor
A conversation geared toward the CTO or Infrastructure Architect. Shows topics focus on future technologies and keeping today's infrastructure in-line with business requirements.
Description: Keith sits down with Ryan Booth — former network automation specialist, Apstra alum, and now principal consultant at Blue Ridge Consulting — to trace the real career arc from infrastructure engineer to applied AI practitioner. They dig into the transferable skills that actually matter (hint: it's not the coding), why curiosity-driven entry points like [...]
At Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Keith sits down with returning guest Woon Jung, CTO of Clumio, to break down their new GCS backup launch — and why "replication" and "backup" are not the same thing. They dig into the real failure domains that catch GCP-native organizations off guard, the operational reality of multi-cloud [...]
Everyone says clean your data before you invest in AI. The problem is, your data is getting dirty faster than you can clean it. In this episode, Keith sits down with Joe Onisick, founder of UnicornIQ, to dig into why data hygiene is AI's most underestimated failure point — and why throwing more GPU power [...]
AI is changing the data center—but not always in the ways enterprises expect. In this episode, Keith Townsend is joined by Intel’s Lynn Comp for Part Two of their conversation, shifting the focus squarely to AI infrastructure realities. They explore why many AI workloads never justify GPUs, how CPU-based deployments often exceed real [...]
Episode Summary Enterprise leaders are facing two equally hard problems at the same time: deciding what to do next with virtualization in the post-VMware era, and figuring out how—or whether—to deploy AI infrastructure responsibly. In this episode of The CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend sits down with long-time industry peer and infrastructure expert [...]
Enterprise IT didn’t plan for this problem—but now it has to solve it. In this episode of The CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend sits down with Lynn Comp, Head of Data Center Market Readiness at Intel, for a candid, unsugarcoated conversation about how Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has fundamentally disrupted the enterprise infrastructure status quo. [...]
In this episode of The CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend sits down with Betsy Tong, founder of Authority Architect, to explore how seasoned professionals can transform decades of experience into thriving consulting businesses. Betsy shares her personal story of being laid off at 56 and realizing the traditional job market—dominated by keyword filters and age [...]
In this episode, Keith Townsend welcomes back Steven Dickens, founder of Hyperframe Research, for a candid conversation following VMware Explore 2025. The duo dives deep into the latest developments from VMware, focusing on the launch of VCF 9 and what it means for developers, customers, and the broader ecosystem. Key topics include: Steven’s impressions of [...]
📝 Show Notes: On this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith sits down with independent analyst Brian Wang of Next Big Future to unpack one of the hottest debates in enterprise IT and AI research: the path to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and beyond to superintelligence. Brian brings his unique lens as a technologist [...]
In this special CTO Advisor Podcast episode, Keith Townsend sits down with Scott Robohn, founder of Tech Sales Craft and co-founder of the Network Automation Forum, for a timely conversation recorded live during GTC week in San Jose — but not at GTC. The duo dive deep into the evolution of network operations and why [...]
📄 Episode Summary / Show Notes: The AI infrastructure game is changing—fast. In this episode of The CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend sits down with Luke Norris, CEO of Kamiwaza, just steps from #NvidiaGTC, to unpack what planned obsolescence really means in a world of $100K GPUs with 18-month lifespans. 🔥 In this episode, we [...]
Episode Summary:In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend welcomes back Bryan Liles—a veteran developer and cloud expert—to discuss AI-assisted application development. The conversation covers how AI tools are transforming coding practices, from automating mundane tasks like converting data types and generating tests to speeding up complex problem-solving. Bryan shares his insights on [...]
In this episode, Keith Townsend is joined by Dion Hinchcliffe—VP and Practice Lead for The Futurum Group’s CIO practice—to explore the monumental impact of DeepSeek, a new large language model (LLM) that’s challenging AI industry norms. They discuss the astonishing claims surrounding DeepSeek’s minimal training costs, its potential to run on everyday hardware at ChatGPT-level [...]
In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, recorded on December 18, 2024, Keith looks back on the major tech trends that are set to shape the landscape as we head into 2025. Drawing insights from recent tech events and vendor shows, the discussion centers on the evolution of AI from a standalone capability to [...]
After meeting at Kubecon, Keith gets in touch with Colin Murphy, a Senior Software Engineer at Adobe Systems, to discuss Web Assembly. They delve into how Adobe has employed Web Assembly to bring end-user applications to web browsers. Colin also discusses the promising aspects of server-side Web Assembly and highlights areas that need further development. [...]
Join Keith, Aeva Black (@aevavoom), and returning guest Ed Warnicke (@edwarnicke) as they dive into the world of GitBOM. It’s not a Git tool, nor is it exactly an SBOM, so how does it enhance software bill of materials and strengthen the security of your development lifecycle? Keith navigates the complexities of this project with [...]
In this episode of the CTO Advisor podcast, host Keith Townsend welcomes Delainy Dalton, a No-Code Developer in the healthcare insurance sector. Delainy shares her extraordinary journey from healthcare insurance sales and clinical care coordination to her current role as a no-code developer. She explains how her past experiences and analytical mindset have been crucial [...]
In this never-published recording, Keith Townsend, Chief Technology Advisor, talks with Kelsey Hightower, fresh off his then promotion to Google Distinguished Engineer. The two explore the trajectory that brought Kelsey to this prestigious title.
In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend and guest Jason Benedicic dive deep into the challenges and opportunities surrounding private cloud solutions. As businesses grapple with the complexity of building private clouds, this conversation covers: The evolution of cloud strategies, from OpenStack to Kubernetes and VMware. The growing role of Kubernetes in [...]
Mark and Keith welcome Matt Broberg and Luigi Danakos for a candid chat about the IT industry. Together, they explore real-life experiences with navigating layoffs, job hunting, and various career hurdles. Matt shares an update on his job search and moving. Luigi shares what it’s like to fight back from hundreds of failed job applications. Keith shares his [...]
In this episode, Keith Townsend and Alastair Cook, both seasoned CTO advisors at the Futurum Group, delve into the challenges and strategies of migrating legacy, VM-based applications to the public cloud. Using the "Granite" application as a case study, they explore the practical considerations of containerization, the complexities of cloud-native transitions, and the impact of [...]
In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend interviews Gene Kim, the renowned author of "The Phoenix Project" and "The Unicorn Project." Gene shares his experiences and insights from his extensive DevOps and IT leadership career, exploring how these fictional narratives reflect real-world challenges and triumphs in technology transformations. Gene discusses the role [...]
Join hosts Keith Townsend and Dave Nicholson as they sit down with Brad Tompkins, Executive Director of VMware User Group (VMUG), to discuss the latest developments and insights following VMware's acquisition by Broadcom. In this episode, they dive into: The impact of Broadcom's acquisition on the VMware user community. Expected changes in VMware's product and [...]
In this episode of the CTO Advisor podcast, hosts Alistair Cooke and Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at the Futurum Group, delve into the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cloud-based enterprise applications. The conversation highlights how AI can significantly enhance the functionality of enterprise software, emphasizing the critical importance of data centralization. They explore [...]
Welcome to another insightful episode of The CTO Advisor Podcast! Today, we have the pleasure of hosting Dion Hinchcliffe, who recently joined the Futurum Group and leads their CIO practice. With over 30 years in the IT industry, Dion shares his vast experience as an ex-practitioner, chief architect, and current strategic advisor at the CIO [...]
In this sponsored episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, host Keith Townsend welcomes Dell Technologies' Sharon Maher and Nicholas Brackney for a deep dive into Dell's recent innovations in on-premises AI. Recorded on the inaugural day of Dell Tech World 2024, the discussion explores groundbreaking developments that are influencing the future of technology. This episode [...]
In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend, a Global Advisor at the Futurum Group, and Erik Bethke, the CTO of Futurum, discuss the latest release from OpenAI, GPT-4.0. They begin by sharing their experiences at Futurum, where both have been working for seven months, and highlighting the development of a new intelligence [...]
In this enlightening episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Chris Williams joins host Keith Townsend to revisit their memorable discussion from Las Vegas about the complexities of Kubernetes. Chris shares how Keith's clear explanation became his first true understanding of Kubernetes, marking a pivotal learning moment. Now a DevRel Manager at HashiCorp, Chris dives deep [...]
Host: Keith Townsend, Futurum Global Advisor Guest: Miles Ward, CTO of Sada Overview: This episode of the CTO Advisor podcast features a return guest, Miles Ward, to discuss the technological and strategic advancements in data management and cloud migrations, focusing on the challenges of data sovereignty and the innovative solutions developed to address these complex [...]
Keith Townsend interviews Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonan. Cohesity announced the intended acquisition of Veritas' data protection business. The acquisition will close a significant gap in the amount of data on protection for Cohesity. However, Townsend challenges Sanjay on the gap in use cases for Cohesity vs. Veritas. Poonan speaks to the current market and the opportunity [...]
Introducing Alastair Cooke as a full-time voice within the Futurum Group Family via the CTO Advisor. Alastair will wear two hats within the Futurum Group. He's helping support the Signal65 Labs and is an analyst with the CTO Advisor. Alastair is experienced in data center and cloud technologies. He's supported many of our existing research and lab projects. [...]
This episode, Keith Townsend sits down with Jim King, Sales Director of SES Satellites, to talk about the importance of space networking—that is, satellite broadband. Jim and I explore why space networking is essential, especially in scenarios where terrestrial service is not available or practical. When disaster strikes, reliable communication is essential. Our sponsor SES [...]
Return guest Nathaniel Avery joins podcast host Keith Townsend to talk platform engineering. Specifically, the duo talks about the holy grail of creating a developer platform where developers focus on code and platform engineers create a seamless workflow. Many of these patterns existed during the height of the virtual machine (VM). Is there anything new in the desire [...]
*New York Times CTO, Nick Rockwell, joins Keith and Mark to talk about the big bet the New York Times is making on Serverless. Nick believes serverless is a bigger shift in computing than Cloud computing. The belief is so strong, that Rockwell made a bet on a Serverless architecture for the New York Times [...]
Keith is no longer the Principal of the CTO Advisor. What’s next, and what does that mean for the podcast?
We continue our conversation with Algolia’s CTO, Sean Mullaney. In this editorial conversation, Keith and Sean discuss the difference between developing code and AI models. The duo also discusses the drivers for multi-cloud and overcoming the challenges associated with cost and engineering resources.
We are jazzed to have Dashaun Carter, VMware Spring Developer Advocate, on the CTO Advisor Studio at VMware Explore 2022. Dashaun presented at both of the VMware Explore 2022 Keynotes. CTO Advisor Studio host Keith Townsend probes Dashaun’s journey to the stage.
Dan Newman, The Futurum Group CEO, joins Keith Townsend, President of the CTO Advisor, to discuss the current state of VMware while the companies await the Chinese government to approve the $61B deal. Recorded at VMware Explore 2023 EU
Guy Currier, the Futurum Group Contributor, joins the podcast from Super Compute 23. Keith and Guy discuss the news out of Super Computer 2023 and how the intersection of AI infrastructure meets and relates to HPC infrastructure.
Alex Ellis, founder of OpenFaaS Limited, returns to the program to discuss his company's latest product, Actuated. Keith and Alex discuss the challenges of building ARM code via emulation on x86 and the ability to go between platforms. Alex shares stories from the field while Keith challenges him on security and compliance.
CTO Advisor podcast host, Keith Townsend has been a long time follower of Zerto data protection. Zerto has traditionally provided data protection via replication for hardware agnostic environments. In this sponsored podcast, Verma Deepak, VP of Product at Zerto, an HPE Company discusses the idea of Zerto as an HPE GreenLake product. Does HPE GreenLake [...]
Keith is no longer the Principal of the CTO Advisor. What's next, and what does that mean for the podcast?
Cisco announced its intended acquisition of Splunk for $28B. Security industry analyst Jo Peterson shares her thoughts on the impact of the acquisition and the five things to watch.
Josh Odgers, founder of End to End, joins Keith Townsend, host of the CTO Advisor Studio, to discuss potential opportunities for partners post-acquisition of VMware by Broadcom. Odgers formed End to End to help existing partners fill the demand for the VCDX-Level architectural design talent gap. The duo discuss the current state of cloud design [...]
Daniel Newman, Futurum Group's Principal Analyst and CEO, joins Keith Townsend on this week's podcast. Both analysts attended VMware's annual conference, VMware Explore. Newman's primary focus is on enterprise IT companies' financial and market health and, thus, their ability to deliver on promises to customers and shareholders. Townsend focuses on the viability of a company's [...]
NAND Research Principal Analyst and Founding Partner Steve Mcdowell joins host Keith Townsend to discuss the announcements from VMware Explore 2023.
NAND Research Principal Analyst and Founding Partner Steve Mcdowell joins host Keith Townsend to discuss the announcements from VMware Explore 2023.
Rita Maria Fuziol,Director Data Center, Cloud, and Infrastructure at Millicom (Tigo), joined the program to discuss the opportunities and challenges of building a regional cloud provider in South America. The topics range from Opensource to building a cloud with limited resources compared to the major cloud providers.
We continue our conversation with Algolia's CTO, Sean Mullaney. In this editorial conversation, Keith and Sean discuss the difference between developing code and AI models. The duo also discuss the drivers for multicloud and overcoming the challenges associated with cost and engineering resources.
This podcast episode of the CTO Advisor podcast episode is sponsored by Algolia software. In this episode, Keith Townsend interviews Algolia's CTO, Sean Mullaney. The pair discuss a practical use for generative AI for e-commerce websites. The range of topics include AI Infrastructure, AI training, and AI Inferencing focused on the shopping experience. [...]
About the session This episode features a conversation between Keith Townsend and Kevin Schwaba, an account executive for Cockroach DB. They discuss Kevin's career journey, his experiences working in different sales roles, and the challenges and insights he has gained along the way. It's a unique journey from talking to direct business value to the [...]
Google Cloud's Outbound Product Manager, Bobby Allen, a familiar voice to the podcast, brought along Stephen Orban, Google Cloud VP of Migrations. Stephen has several years of experience on the customer side. Stephen's background includes leading a cloud migration at Dow Jones and web services at Bloomberg. In addition to his customer-side experience, Stephen spent [...]
Yadin Porter Deleòn joins Keith Townsend in today's episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast. In this episode, Keith and Yadin discuss the current state of enterprise tech communities of practice. As the reality of a hybrid cloud takes hold, the enterprise IT community must learn to deal with divergent communities. From cloud-native to vendor-specific, Keith [...]
About the session - The session of the informal independent analyst council, Keit, Maribel, Tim, and Larry discussed IBM's Think conference, focusing on the company's AI and hybrid cloud strategy, as well as the integration of AI and infrastructure. Key speakers - Speaker A: Keith - Speaker B: Maribel - Speaker C: Tim [...]
OverviewThis episode of the CTO Advisor podcast discusses IBM Watsonx.Data, a part of IBM’s AI platform and toolset. The conversation focuses on the concept of a data lake house and its role in data governance and analytics. Tony Baer, …
A cast of independent analysts comprised of, Keith Townsend (The CTO Advisor), Maribel Lopez (Lopez Research), Tim Crawford (AVOA), and Larry Carvalho (Robust Cloud) discuss the current state of Generative AI for the enterprise. Chapters : :50 Introduction 3:45 The Lens of an Enterprise Architect - Keith 6:50 The Opportunities & Concerns about Foundational Models [...]
Keith Townsend, the Principal of the CTO Advisor, sits with Red Hat Director of Market Insights, Stu Miniman, to discuss platform engineering and Red Hat's collaboration with AWS Cloud. IBM sponsored this conversation. Visit Red Hat's Kubecon booth - red.ht/KubeConEU2023 To learn more about ROSA partnerships with SaaS providers - https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-celonis-make-hybrid-multicloud-reality-intelligent-business-execution https://newsroom.ibm.com/2022-05-11-IBM-Signs-Strategic-Collaboration-Agreement-with-Amazon-Web-Services-to-Deliver-IBM-Software-as-a-Service-on-AWS
As promised, Ned Bellavance joins the podcast to discuss all things creator AI. From programming to content creation, Ned shares how he leverages generative AI tools in his creative workflow. Keith and Ned also discuss the impact to industries.
In this sponsored podcast. The CTO Advisor, Keith Townsend, sits down with Roger Premo, General Manager, Corporate Strategy and Ventures, IBM. The duo discusses IBM's special relationship with Red Hat and how the company leverages OpenShift across public clouds, private infrastructure, and IBM's in-house products and services.
X as Code expert Ned Bellavance rejoins the podcast to discuss the latest battle in open-source licensing between MinIO and WekaIO and how customers should think about open-source licensing. Show Notes: Ned's Pluralsight Courses: https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/edward-bellavance Block and Files Article on MinIO/WekaIO: https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/03/26/we-object-minio-says-no-more-open-license-for-you-weka/
Today, Keith chats with author Swathi Young about the AI and Machine Learning ethics framework. Keith asks the hard questions in regards to responsibility and policies. What is Ethical AI? What should CTO’s consider in AI projects? What guardrails should citizen data scientists consider?
Allyson Klein moderates a panel of industry experts on how we achieve true multi-cloud automation, the challenges of automation today, and technology advancement in VMs, containers, and web assembly architectures to achieve single pane of glass oversight. Don't forget to check out ctoavc.com for more of this content and all our sessions from The CTO [...]
Keith Townsend is solo this week to discuss Broadcom's proposed acquisition of VMware. VMware is in R&D and innovation in multi-cloud management. An area requiring massive investment. Broadcom is brilliant at getting the most for its shareholders out of its software investments. These two areas of capability don't seem complementary. Keith suggests questions you should [...]
Calvin Hendryx-Parker, CTO of Six Feet Up, a Pyhton Consulting Firm, shares his journey of building their in-house event hosting platform with Keith Townsend. Hyndryx-Parker shares the journey of commercializing the solution and the pros and cons of developers turned operators. The duo also discusses some of the architecture decisions and why Six Feet Up [...]
Faction CTO Matt Wallace returns to the CTO Advisor podcast to talk data architecture with Keith Townsend. Matt walks Keith through the basics of Hadoop and HDFS to more modern concepts such as AWS EMR and where things break. The two discuss how Enterprise Architecture and Data Architecture intersect to ensure users can collaborate on [...]
RackN CEO Rob Hirschfeld returns to the podcast to talk supercloud with host Keith Townsend. Keith and Rob reflect on some "free" advisory Keith provided Rob during a chat at re: Invent 2022. The two go into some technical detail about the benefits and challenges of abstracting cloud infrastructure to provide a consistent developer experience [...]
This episode of the CTO Advisor podcast features Sanjeev Mohan, the founder of Sanjmo Advisory Firm and a former VP of research at Gartner. Sanjeev and Keith Townsend discuss the concept of "Super Cloud" and whether it is a real thing or not. Sanjeev believes that it's a natural progression from single cloud to multi-cloud [...]
The CTO Advisor features a special guest, David Linthicum, Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte. In this episode, Dave and the host, Keith Townsend, discuss cloud repatriation, or the process of bringing workloads and data sets back to traditional systems from the cloud. They discuss the business value considerations driving repatriation, such as cost savings [...]
In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, host Keith Townsend sits down with industry veteran and accomplished entrepreneur Steven Kaplan. Steven has authored several books, started and managed several companies, and has a wealth of experience in the industry. The conversation centers around the journey of entrepreneurs transitioning to full-time employees, and the risks [...]
Keith Townsend sits down with Keith Parsons, Managing Director of Wireless LAN Professionals Conference to discuss their upcoming conference in Phoenix, AZ. Parsons has a unique approach to IT conferences. You won't find any vendors looking to give away swag or scan your badge. It's all about the content and networking with your peers. Does [...]
How crazy is the idea of running a data center inside your home? According to Nick Howell, Global Cloud Field CTO for NetApp, not as crazy as buying an Airstream and renting a booth at VMware Explore San Francisco. However, that's a low standard. @datacntrdude joins the program and talks about the why of hosting [...]
We are jazzed to have DaShaun Carter, VMware Spring Developer Advocate, on the CTO Advisor Studio at VMware Explore 2022. Dashaun presented at both of the VMware Explore 2022 Keynotes. CTO Advisor Studio host Keith Townsend probes DaShaun's journey to the stage.
GigaOM Sr. Storage Analyst Enrico Signoretti joins Keith Townsend in the latest podcast. The analyst pair compare notes from AWS re: Invent 2022 Technical Keynote Werner Vogels Keynote. Did Vogels provide a compelling enough argument to go all in on AWS Lambda Serverless and data analytics platforms or should customers look to cloud-native abstractions? [...]
Independent Analyst and CTO Advisor Joep Piscaer join The CTO Advisor Studio Host, Keith Townsend, during VMware Explore 2022 EU to discuss how the concept of the Platform Team compares to the DevOps movement. Are these two concepts at odds or complementary?
Another boots-on-the-ground interview at VMware Explore 2022. Jens Söldner, Principle Managing Partner, and Cornelius May, Junior Consultant, both of Söldner Consult GmbH, join the program. The pair share their experience consulting companies in Germany on their integration and migration (to and from) the Cloud.
Keith Bradley VP of Information Technology for Nature Fresh Farms sits with CTO Advisor Principle Keith Townsend. Bradley shares how Nature Fresh Farms manages 1.5M edge devices that produce 25GB of data per season
Prophecy International CISCO Steve Challans joins Keith Townsend on the set of the CTO Advisor Studio at Oracle Cloud World 2022 to discuss Prophecy's adoption of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution OCVS. How does the VMware cloud service in Oracle compare to colocation options in cost and capability?
Iztik Moshaof, Sr. Director of Global IT at Cybereason, shares Cybereason's Multi-Cloud journey, including AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Microsoft Azure. Keith and Iztik met at VMware 2022 and discuss Oracle Cloud VMware Solution on the set of the CTO Advisor Studio.
Host of the CTO Advisor Studio, Keith Townsend, interviews Stephen Foskett, Publisher at @Gestalt IT, which presents @Tech Field Day events. During VMware Explore 2022, Keith and Stephen discuss CXL and the future of memory-driven computing. Will servers look utterly different in 3-years?
CTO Advisor Studio host Keith Townsend asks VMware’s Head of Research and Innovation to pick his favorite incubation projects within VMware. Recorded at VMware Explore 2022.
Kelsey Hightower, Principal Engineer at Google Cloud joins host Keith Townsend on the set of the CTO Advisor Studio at VMware Explore. Keith and Kelsey discuss practical steps for early career ITDM tasked with migration to cloud-native and the public cloud.
In this sponsored proof of concept project, the CTO Advisor Team takes a monolithic application and modernizes the app using the Google Cloud Platform assessment and automation tools. Keith Townsend, Principal of the CTO Advisor, interviews AWS application developer trainer Alastair Cooke on his experience assessing and modernizing a monolithic application to Google Cloud. Can [...]
Keith Townsend sits down with Melissa Townsend (@MrsCTO) to reflect on 5-years of running the CTO Advisor LLC. The couple discusses the ups and downs of running the business as a married couple. The walk down memory lane includes: - Keith's stint at VMware - The idea of bringing the flying cloud onto the VMware [...]
Pure Storage sponsored this podcast episode to discuss its approach to hybrid storage. Keith challenges Pure on their Kubernetes street credibility. In addition, Pure Storage’s Cody Hosterman and Dan Kogan discuss how Pure Storage makes any future impact of VMware’s Tanzu strategy seamless to applications using Pure Storage hybrid storage solutions.
Keith Townsend is joined by Dr. Bruce Davie and Dr. Larry Peterson of Systems Approach. The pair are network industry luminaries. Keith is curious about the current status of the P4 programming language and how it relates to distributed data center networking. Make sure to subscribe to the Systems Approach newsletter on Substack.
The CTO Advisor talks with Miles Ward(@milesward) CTO of SADA about application migration and their partnership with Google Cloud. The CTO Advisor is finishing up sponsored content with Google Cloud where we take a legacy application and modernize it on GCP using Google’s automation tooling. Keith asks Miles which parts of the thought experiment are [...]
Keith chats it up with Justin Warren(@jpwarren) Founder and Principal of PivotNine Consulting about their experiences integrating systems that are intended to automate or make various processes accommodate tasks for businesses and the general populace. The results of some of these efforts may or may not surprise some of you. Show Notes: Australia Robodebt - [...]
New York Times CTO, Nick Rockwell, joins Keith and Mark to talk about the big bet New York Times is making on Serverless. Nick believes serverless is a bigger shift in computing than Cloud computing. The belief is so strong, that Rockwell made a bet on a Serverless architecture for the New York Times Crossword [...]
Sandeep Singh, HPE VP of Marketing, joins Keith Townsend in an editorial podcast. Keith asks Sandeep about the challenges of hybrid cloud data and how HPE GreenLake is answering the call for mixed applications from Cloud-Native to traditional workloads.
In this week’s podcast, Keith invites Independent Analyst Melissa Palmer(@vmiss33) to discuss Ransomware. Melissa is a VMware vSphere and Storage expert with years of experience. She blogs on vmiss.net.
Developers want an Edge experience akin to that of the public cloud. They simply write the code deployed to the endpoint. Astute developers can implement DevOps methods that fully use the underlying infrastructure but don’t have to worry about the control plane. Sarbjeet Johal and RackN CEO Rob Hirschfeld both rejoin Keith Townsend in debating [...]
Keith reaches out to Colin Murphy Senior Software Engineer for Adobe Systems after meeting at Kubecon and they talk about Web Assembly. Web Assembly has been used to deploy Adobe’s end-user applications to the web browser. Colin shares the potential of server-side Web Assembly and where the gaps exist. Show Notes: Opensource Projects Wasmcloud Project [...]
Keith Townsend talks to Bobby Dorlus about his experience helping run Twitter's infrastructure and how Twitter approaches solving problems at scale. Bobby shares his last project where he worked on optimizing storage-only nodes to run colocated applications and delaying the need to deploy a new data center.
Keith and Lead Analyst of Lopez Research Maribel Lopez talk Multi-Cloud from a business perspective. What happens when a multi-cloud project doesn’t achieve the promised results?
You can’t tell Kubernetes from a cable modem? Google Cloud’s Kelsey Hightower walks me through the most basic of outcomes to understanding the basic primitives of Kubernetes. This is well worth the 28-mins.
Keith talks with Cyber Security expert Dr. Wade Holmes(@wholmes) regarding the challenges associated with the pursuit of his doctorate and current cyber security project that looks at the increased attack surface of hybrid infrastructures.
Keith speaks with returning guest Martez Reed(@greenreedtech), Marketing Director for Morpheus Data about his project that addresses the simplification of credential deployment across cloud-native applications.
After four years of trying to be on each other’s podcast, Keith Townsend and Joel Beasley finally join forces to talk content, CTOs, and the CTO Advisor Hybrid Infrastructure and the lessons learned. Joel has some 400+ interviews hosted on https://moderncto.io.
Keith, Aeva Black (@aevavoom), and returning guest Ed Warnicke (@edwarnicke) talk in-depth about the GitBOM. If it’s not a Git or SBOM tool, how does it help with software bill of materials and securing your development lifecycle? Keith attempts to wrap his head around the project with the help of two industry heavy hitters.
Keith and Joe Onisick, (@JoeOnisick) Principal at Transformation Continuum talk about Data Repatriation.
Keith talks with Ed Warnicke(@edwarnicke) co-founder of The Network Service Mesh Project at CNCF.
Keith talks with VMware’s Americas CTO Amanda Blevins(@amandablev) about her VP-level role and the journey to her success.
Keith speaks with Howard Marks(@deepstoragenet) of VAST continuing the theme of data storage evolution focusing on backups. How does All-Flash help with recovery from ransomware?
Keith and storage expert Chris M. Evans(@chrismevans) talk about the feasibility of running Linux on the Mainframe and by extension Kubernetes. They conclude the discussion with considerations for integrating modern applications and infrastructure with Mainframe systems. A nice walk down history while understanding the impact on existing systems and operations. Show Notes Chris’s Blog [...]
Friend of the show Alex Ellis joins to discuss OpenFaaS LTD winning Best of VMworld. Keith and Alex talk a little inside baseball around the VMware Event Broker Appliance and OpenFaaS. In the wide-ranging conversation, the duo touches on the financial reality of supporting open source and consuming open source. In the remainder of the conversation, [...]
Phoummala Schmitt(@exchangegoddess) returns to the CTO Advisor podcast to talk about leveling up your career as an individual contributor. What happens when Exchange is no longer hosted on-premises and you’ve built a career around being an Exchange expert. Phoummala shares her mid-career journey in this extended podcast episode.
In this podcast, Keith and David Aronchick (@aronchick) Co-director of Research Development at Protocol Labs talk about WEB3 and the theory of decentralizing trust in storage solutions. Learn more about Interplanetary File System at IPFS.io
Keith and AWS Hero Maciej Lelusz chat about the challenges and solutions integrating the VMware environment in this hybrid cloud data center from an experienced engineer’s vantage point.
In this podcast, Keith and Data Researcher Dave McCrory(@mccrory) touch on the concept of Data Gravity. Dave explains how it’s measured and the related benefits of tracking this science.
In this podcast, Keith talks with Vittorio Viarengo, VP of Cloud Solutions Marketing at VMware. Vittorio answers questions about VMware’s take on multi-cloud and the solutions they implement for the inherent challenges presented by the multi-faceted tool. Where is VMware in their Cross-Cloud journey vs. the customer need.
Today, Keith chats with author Swathi Young about the AI and Machine Learning ethics framework. Keith asks the hard questions in regards to responsibility and policies. What is Ethical AI? What should CTO’s consider in AI projects? What guardrails should citizen data scientists consider?
Keith chats with Bryan Liles, Principal Engineer at VMware about his role at Telco and VMware. Keith and Bryan cover Bryan’s journey to becoming the only Black Principal Engineer at a Fortune 50 Software company. The focus turns to VMware’s Telco journey. Every major IT vendor has a Telco strategy. Pat Gelsinger has taken VMware’s [...]
Keith and AWS Hero Chris Williams (@mistwire) reflect briefly on AWS re: Invent. Chris summarizes his insights based on the information he gathered from this major conference recently held in Las Vegas. Chris’ three major takeaways: Sustainability Community Mac M1 Instances You can learn more about vBrownBag via https://vbrownbag.com or follow the Twitter handle @vbrownbag [...]
In this CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith and Lisa Caywood (@reallisac) of Redhat chat about Open Source. They discuss its relevance in IT and the support needed to strengthen the longevity of such an important tool in the industry.
Keith speaks with Nick Brackney (@NickBrackney) of Dell Technologies about automation. Automation is the key to modern enterprise infrastructure. However, this stuff is hard and Nick helps break down the steps to get to mature levels of automation.
Keith and Rosemary Wang of Hashicorp catch up with each other and talk about security and policy. They also discuss the best practices and patterns across the various applications for policy implementation. Show Notes: Rosemary’s Scaling Infrastructure as Code CTO Advisor Virtual Conference Rosemary’s book Patterns and Practices for Infrastructure as Code Podcast episode with [...]
In this CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith and Bluecat SVP Petrisa Pecnik talk about cloud automation, the need for forward-thinking when and if the need for infrastructure improvements to keep up with this fast-moving technology.
Keith and Ned Bellavance (@ned1313) talk about DevOps or Dev vs. Ops. We pick on Portworx, again. We discuss the responsibility of Replication. Who repairs it when it goes down? Developers or Operations? Ned and Keith try to simplify the very deep issues that arise from its application.
In this CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith and Martez Reed (@greenreedtech), Director of Technical Marketing at Morpheus talk about solving challenges regarding Storage Abstraction and sorting through the numerous options to simplify its application. Here's the link to Martez' Virtualized Geek blog on the IT Skills Gap
Keith and Author/Career Coach Kanika Tolver talk about the current state of people empowering their careers; the mindset that employees and candidates are approaching the job search, and the level of control they are taking with their respective jobs. Kanika’s book can be found here: Career Rehab: Rebuild Your Personal Brand and Rethink the Way [...]
Keith and Jo Peterson of Clarify360 follow up on her speaking engagement from the CTOAdvisor Virtual event. Here they talk about the importance of Cloud Security and the need for constant safeguards in this ever-changing environment.
As a follow-up to Keith’s conversation with Tim Crawford; in today's podcast, Keith and Chia-Chee Kuan of Uila discuss the transition of employees returning to “the office” and the numerous challenges of adapting to the new normal in the tail end of the pandemic. They also discuss the challenges related to managing network connectivity challenges [...]
Here with Keith, is Tim Crawford (@tcrawford), an independent analyst. In this podcast, Keith and Tim discuss returning to work from a CIO perspective. They talk about the scramble to prepare the workplace for remote/office hybrid scheduling and the technical challenges associated.
Keith catches up with Duck Bill Group's Corey Quinn and talks all things hybrid. Where's the intersection of Corey's customers optimizing AWS bills for applications focused on transformation and Keith's audience who get these applications when they become steady-state?
The CTO Advisor Road Trip hits Philidelphia, PA. Keith visits Ned Bellavance's home. Ned is the founder of Ned In the Cloud LLC a company focused on technical education. Ned is an expert in Terraform and does a weekly video called Terraform Tuesdays. Keith and Ned discuss the release of Hashicorp's Terraform 1.0. If you are thinking Terraform has [...]
In this sponsored CTO Dose, Keith Townsend, Principal of the CTO, sits down with Mike Bushong, VP of Data Center at Juniper Networks. Juniper recently acquired Apstra. Apstra is software designed to manage corporate networks via intent-based instructions. Keith and Mike share a robust conversation about Juniper's ability to successfully develop the platform. Press release [...]
You can’t tell Kubernetes from a cable modem? Google Cloud’s Kelsey Hightower walks me through the most basic of outcomes to understanding the basic primitive of Kubernetes. This is well worth the 28-mins.…
Wouldn’t it be great to get the same telemetry data from VM’s hosted in the public cloud that you can get from systems in the private data center? In theory, Cloud architects and engineers receive valuable data that could help …
Long-time guest of the podcast Bobby Allen has left his role as CTO of Cloudgenera. Where did this cloud economist go? Was it to a vendor in need of cloud expertise such as Dell, VMware, or HPE? Or if you …
Friend of the show Alex Ellis joins to discuss OpenFaaS LTD winning best of VMworld. Keith and Alex talk a little inside baseball around the VMware Event Broker Appliance and OpenFaaS. In the wide-ranging conversation, the duo touches on …
VMware’s Chris Wolf is in a new role as VP of Advance Technology Group in the Office of the CTO. Chris’ team is responsible for taking VMware’s graduated innovation to customers to realize value. Keith sits down with Chris to …
Edge + Cloud = Data Center? That’s the equation that Mark Thiele, CEO and Founder of Edgevana presents in the latest podcast episode. We’ve had Mark on when he was in the co-lo business and again as part of edge …
Keith Townsend assembled a panel of experts to define and discuss Edge Computing. The conversation ranges between what is the edge to who is the customer for edge.
Show Notes Panel CEO RackN – Rob Hirschfeld – https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhirschfeld/ SVP Appgate …
Recently, we selected QTS as a data center provider for the CTO Advisor Hybrid Infrastructure. We ran into a practical challenge of choosing a data center from the overwhelming number of options. Selecting a new data center CoLo isn’t an everyday activity Architects and CTO’s undertake. The obvious question is, where do you start? How [...]
The CTO Advisor Virtual Conference Series continues with this panel of experts discussing the next level of public cloud workload repatriation. What skills and data are needed to determine if a workload should be repatriated? Joining: Jo Peterson https://www.linkedin.com/in/jopeterson1/ Tim Crawford https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcrawford/ Bobby Allen https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-allen-ms-pmp-a4641/ Matt Wallace https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewwallaceco/
Replay of the session from the CTO Advisor Virtual Conference. In this expert panel, our guests will tackle the concept of public cloud workload repatriation. It is a thing but who big of a thing and what are the primary …
CTO Dose co-host Joep Piscaer joins the program to discuss vSphere 7 and his impressions of the Kubernetes integration. Project Tanzu Grid is the updated branding for Project Pacific. Did VMware’s initial release live up to the hype or should …
A casual conversation with a friend to the program Nate Avery. How have his Federal Government clients reacted to working from home? How has the technology held up and what is Nate doing to keep connected with the community. Show Notes Nate’s Blog
Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting Principal Consultant Joey D’Antoni joins the program again. This time to talk about the impact of Coronavirus on IT conferences and the day-to-day operations of companies. Microsoft announced that its San Francisco and Seattle-based employees …
We have the CloudGenera CTO Bobby Allen on the podcast again this week. Keith and Bobby discuss the concept of repatriation and what scenarios are worth considering. Bobby also describes some of the back office politics of cloud repatriation.
…
Friend of the program Larry Smith Jr. sits down with Keith to discuss why IT Infrastructure automation is so hard. Larry has been working in IT automation for 5-years and shares his wealth of knowledge around tools vs. culture.…
In this Dell Technologies sponsored podcast, Dell Marketing’s Conor Duffy, David Iovino, and Justin Jones all join the program. Dell made a big splash with Intel back in November of 2019 by announcing a new converged infrastructure (CI) system. However, …
The conversation around if cloud vs. private data center cost has come around yet again. Instead of producing another podcast on the topic, we decided to replay a conversation from December 2018 during AWS re:Invent with Bobby Allen, CTO of …
Episode 112 of The CTO Advisor podcast is sponsored by Velocloud by VMware. Jeff Bradbury, Senior Marketing Director at Hughes, Nick Coval, Product Director at Hughes and Craig Connors, Chief Architect at Velocloud joins the program.
Timestamps
1:30 Keith asks …