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