The CTO Advisor

Keith speaks with Howard Marks(@deepstoragenet) of VAST continuing the theme of data storage evolution focusing on backups. How does All-Flash help with recovery from ransomware?

Keith and storage expert Chris M. Evans(@chrismevans) talk about the feasibility of running Linux on the Mainframe and by extension Kubernetes. They conclude the discussion with considerations for integrating modern applications and infrastructure with Mainframe systems. A nice walk down history while understanding the impact on existing systems and operations.    Show Notes  Chris’s Blog  [...]

Friend of the show Alex Ellis joins to discuss OpenFaaS LTD winning Best of VMworld. Keith and Alex talk a little inside baseball around the VMware Event Broker Appliance and OpenFaaS. In the wide-ranging conversation, the duo touches on the financial reality of supporting open source and consuming open source. In the remainder of the conversation, [...]

Phoummala Schmitt(@exchangegoddess) returns to the CTO Advisor podcast to talk about leveling up your career as an individual contributor. What happens when Exchange is no longer hosted on-premises and you’ve built a career around being an Exchange expert. Phoummala shares her mid-career journey in this extended podcast episode.

In this podcast, Keith and David Aronchick (@aronchick) Co-director of Research Development at Protocol Labs talk about WEB3 and the theory of decentralizing trust in storage solutions. Learn more about Interplanetary File System at IPFS.io

Keith and AWS Hero Maciej Lelusz chat about the challenges and solutions integrating the VMware environment in this hybrid cloud data center from an experienced engineer’s vantage point.

In this podcast, Keith and Data Researcher Dave McCrory(@mccrory) touch on the concept of Data Gravity. Dave explains how it’s measured and the related benefits of tracking this science.

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 [...]