In this interview, Keith Townsend sits down with Patrick Wang, VP of Corp. Strategy for SuperMicro. Patrick walks the audience through the journey of SuperMicro from a components company to a solutions company with the ability to engineer and manufacture solutions within San Jose.

There's a use case for AWS EC2 inside the private data center just as there's a use case for Azure services inside the data center or VMware inside public clouds. This CTO Dose helps explain the EC2 use case along with the general direction of the industry.

Paul Woodward (explorevm.com) joins the program to discuss the business value of modern backup systems.

Matt Carpe @mattThatITguy joins the program to discuss his first impressions of Rubrik's Polaris metadata platform.

Rubrik Technical Marketing Engineer, Demetrius Malbrough, joins the CTO Dose to discuss how he used networking and social media to move up from a Support Engineer role to a Technical Marketing Engineer's role. Great career advice regardless of your career or career level. Join his Backup Professionals LinkedIn Group. 

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Rebbeca Fitzhugh, Technical Marketing Manager at Rubrik describes what its like to work for a vendor vs. her previous roles at VAR's and freelancing.

HPE announced their frequently renamed Hybrid Cloud control plan product OneSphere at HPE Discover 2016. It was an ambitious attempt of centralizing the cloud control plan without offering a brokering service. According to the HPE's VP and GM of Hybrid Cloud the goal is to provide the balance of control of operations while exposing cloud API's directly to developers.

This sponsored CTO Dose is a good starting point for discussing the role of OneSphere in the hybrid cloud.

A few years ago, I wrote how VDI was dying or needed to die. I was a big believer in replatforming applications for a native mobile experience. When VMware purchased a VDI company I moaned and groaned about it being the past. Well fast forward a few years and VMware's EUC is over a $1B business. It turns out VDI is a critical part of a digital transformation strategy. In this CTO Dose recorded at Rubrik, I interviewed Ahead Architect Sean P Massey about the importance of End User Computing (EUC) to a successful digital transformation plan.

Diane Green joined the Cisco CEO on stage during the Cisco Live US (#CLUS) Day 1 Keynote. Diane and Chuck laid out a vision of using Kubernetes to orchestrate the movement of workloads from the private data center to the public cloud. On paper the solution makes sense. So, why aren't we buying what Cisco is selling?

SAP is slowly becoming a platform company powered by HANA. SAPPHIRE 2018 centered around the theme of the Intelligent Business. You can't have that conversation without mentioning the Cloud. I got an update on SAP's public Cloud strategy and a good sense of where enterprises should focus efforts. This CTO Dose reviews SAP's Cloud maturity.