The CTO Advisor

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 [...]