The CTO Advisor

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

Keith and Author/Career Coach Kanika Tolver talk about the current state of people empowering their careers; the mindset that employees and candidates are approaching the job search, and the level of control they are taking with their respective jobs. Kanika’s book can be found here: Career Rehab: Rebuild Your Personal Brand and Rethink the Way [...]

Keith and Jo Peterson of Clarify360 follow up on her speaking engagement from the CTOAdvisor Virtual event. Here they talk about the importance of Cloud Security and the need for constant safeguards in this ever-changing environment.

As a follow-up to Keith’s conversation with Tim Crawford; in today's podcast, Keith and Chia-Chee Kuan of Uila discuss the transition of employees returning to “the office” and the numerous challenges of adapting to the new normal in the tail end of the pandemic. They also discuss the challenges related to managing network connectivity challenges [...]