The CTO Advisor

*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.

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 [...]

Overview This 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 [...]