The CTO Advisor

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What's The CTO Advisor about?

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.

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The CTO Advisor episodes:

04.24.2024
The Evolution and Impact of Cloud Data Solutions: A Chat with Miles Ward
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...
03.13.2024
Cohesity to Acquire Veritas – Sanjay Poonan
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...
02.07.2024
Introducing a New CTO Advisor – Alastair Cooke
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...
01.31.2024
Remote Connectivity & Overcrowded Network Relief
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...
01.24.2024
Platform Engineer: What’s Old is New Again
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...
01.17.2024
Replay-Serverless is bigger than Cloud – NY Times CTO 2018
*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...
12.29.2023
Replay-New Job Who This? – Keith is leaving his role at CTOA.
Keith is no longer the Principal of the CTO Advisor. What’s next, and what does that mean for the podcast?
12.20.2023
Replay-Building and Managing Multicloud AI Infrastructure
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...
12.14.2023
Replay-Breaking the Glass Ceiling – Dashaun Carter VMware Explore EU 2022
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...
11.22.2023
Broadcom and VMware at VMware Explore EU
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
11.15.2023
AI Meets High-Performance Computing (HPC)
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.
11.01.2023
Accelerating ARM and x86 CI with Actuated
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...
10.18.2023
Data Protection with HPE and Zerto
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...
10.04.2023
New Job Who This? – Keith is leaving his role at CTOA.
Keith is no longer the Principal of the CTO Advisor. What's next, and what does that mean for the podcast?
09.27.2023
Cisco to buy Splunk – 5 Things to Watch
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.
09.13.2023
Opportunites for VMware Partners post-Broadcom Aquisition
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...
08.31.2023
Broadcom and VMware – Divergent Views
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...
08.23.2023
VMware Explore 2023 – Independent Analysis with Steve Mcdowell
NAND Research Principal Analyst and Founding Partner Steve Mcdowell joins host Keith Townsend to discuss the announcements from VMware Explore 2023.
08.02.2023
Build a Regional Cloud Provider
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...
07.26.2023
Building and Managing Multicloud AI Infrastructure
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...
07.12.2023
Algolia – Powering Discovery via AI
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...
06.28.2023
Career Changes from Salesforce to Twilio to CockroachDB
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...
06.14.2023
Application Modernization at Google Scale
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...
05.31.2023
Communities of Practice
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...
05.24.2023
Independent Analysts Recap of IBM Think 2023
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. ...
05.17.2023
Understanding a the value of a Data Lake House
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, …
05.10.2023
Building a “Psuedo” Cloud Provider – A Telco Journey
Summary This episode is recorded at a special Juniper Enterprise Analyst and Influencer conference held in Dallas, Texas, where a Juniper customer, Rita Maria Fuziol, discusses innovation challenges in the service provider industry, particularly for Millicom, a telco company.…
04.26.2023
Independent Analysis of Generative AI
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...
04.18.2023
How IBM and Red Hat Support Platform Engineering Efforts?
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...
04.12.2023
Who’s Afraid of ChatGPT?
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.
04.05.2023
What are IBM’s Hybrid Cloud and AI Capabilities?
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...
03.29.2023
Opensource Licensing Danger Zone?
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/
03.22.2023
Replay-Ethical AI with Swathi Young
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...
03.15.2023
The Holy Grail of Truly Automated Multi-Cloud
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...
03.08.2023
VMware Broadcom Merger – What Innovation to Outsource
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...
03.01.2023
Build vs. SaaS with Calvin Hyndryx-Parker
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...
02.22.2023
Enterprise Architecture Meets Data Architecture
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...
02.08.2023
The Challenge of Creating a SuperCloud with Rob Hirschfeld
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...
02.01.2023
The Power of Abstraction: The Case for Super Clouds with Sanjeev Mohan
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...
01.25.2023
Cloud Workload Repatriation with Deloitte’s David Linthicum
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...
01.18.2023
From Tomato Salesman to Tech Entrepreneur: Steven Kaplan’s Journey in Business
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....
01.11.2023
No Sponsors Allowed – Wire LAN Professionals Conference
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...
01.04.2023
NetApp Cloud Field CTO – Nick Howell VMware Explore 2022
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,...
12.14.2022
Breaking the Glass Ceiling – DaShaun Carter VMware Explore EU 2022
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...
12.07.2022
AWS Re:Invent Keynote Review – Blue Pill, Red Pill, Yellow Jellybean
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...
11.30.2022
Platform Engineering vs. Devops with Joep Piscaer – VMware Explore 2022 EU
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...
11.16.2022
Migrating from Azure to VMware – VMware Explore 2022 Söldner Consult GmbH
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...
11.09.2022
25GB X 1.5 Million IoT Devices -Nature Fresh Farms VMWare Explore 2022
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
11.02.2022
Steve Challans CISO Prophecy International – OCW22
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...
09.21.2022
Iztik Moshaof VMware Explore 2022
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...

What's The CTO Advisor about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The CTO Advisor episodes:

The Evolution and Impact of Cloud Data Solutions: A Chat with Miles Ward

Cohesity to Acquire Veritas – Sanjay Poonan

Introducing a New CTO Advisor – Alastair Cooke

Remote Connectivity & Overcrowded Network Relief

Platform Engineer: What’s Old is New Again

Replay-Serverless is bigger than Cloud – NY Times CTO 2018

Replay-New Job Who This? – Keith is leaving his role at CTOA.

Replay-Building and Managing Multicloud AI Infrastructure

Replay-Breaking the Glass Ceiling – Dashaun Carter VMware Explore EU 2022

Broadcom and VMware at VMware Explore EU

AI Meets High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Accelerating ARM and x86 CI with Actuated

Data Protection with HPE and Zerto

New Job Who This? – Keith is leaving his role at CTOA.

Cisco to buy Splunk – 5 Things to Watch

Opportunites for VMware Partners post-Broadcom Aquisition

Broadcom and VMware – Divergent Views

VMware Explore 2023 – Independent Analysis with Steve Mcdowell

Build a Regional Cloud Provider

Building and Managing Multicloud AI Infrastructure

Algolia – Powering Discovery via AI

Career Changes from Salesforce to Twilio to CockroachDB

Application Modernization at Google Scale

Communities of Practice

Independent Analysts Recap of IBM Think 2023

Understanding a the value of a Data Lake House

Building a “Psuedo” Cloud Provider – A Telco Journey

Independent Analysis of Generative AI

How IBM and Red Hat Support Platform Engineering Efforts?

Who’s Afraid of ChatGPT?

What are IBM’s Hybrid Cloud and AI Capabilities?

Opensource Licensing Danger Zone?

Replay-Ethical AI with Swathi Young

The Holy Grail of Truly Automated Multi-Cloud

VMware Broadcom Merger – What Innovation to Outsource

Build vs. SaaS with Calvin Hyndryx-Parker

Enterprise Architecture Meets Data Architecture

The Challenge of Creating a SuperCloud with Rob Hirschfeld

The Power of Abstraction: The Case for Super Clouds with Sanjeev Mohan

Cloud Workload Repatriation with Deloitte’s David Linthicum

From Tomato Salesman to Tech Entrepreneur: Steven Kaplan’s Journey in Business

No Sponsors Allowed – Wire LAN Professionals Conference

NetApp Cloud Field CTO – Nick Howell VMware Explore 2022

Breaking the Glass Ceiling – DaShaun Carter VMware Explore EU 2022

AWS Re:Invent Keynote Review – Blue Pill, Red Pill, Yellow Jellybean

Platform Engineering vs. Devops with Joep Piscaer – VMware Explore 2022 EU

Migrating from Azure to VMware – VMware Explore 2022 Söldner Consult GmbH

25GB X 1.5 Million IoT Devices -Nature Fresh Farms VMWare Explore 2022

Steve Challans CISO Prophecy International – OCW22

Iztik Moshaof VMware Explore 2022