The CTO Advisor

Here with Keith, is Tim Crawford (@tcrawford), an independent analyst. In this podcast, Keith and Tim discuss returning to work from a CIO perspective. They talk about the scramble to prepare the workplace for remote/office hybrid scheduling and the technical challenges associated.

Keith catches up with Duck Bill Group's Corey Quinn and talks all things hybrid. Where's the intersection of Corey's customers optimizing AWS bills for applications focused on transformation and Keith's audience who get these applications when they become steady-state?

The CTO Advisor Road Trip hits Philidelphia, PA. Keith visits Ned Bellavance's home. Ned is the founder of Ned In the Cloud LLC a company focused on technical education. Ned is an expert in Terraform and does a weekly video called Terraform Tuesdays. Keith and Ned discuss the release of Hashicorp's Terraform 1.0. If you are thinking Terraform has [...]

In this sponsored CTO Dose, Keith Townsend, Principal of the CTO, sits down with Mike Bushong, VP of Data Center at Juniper Networks. Juniper recently acquired Apstra. Apstra is software designed to manage corporate networks via intent-based instructions. Keith and Mike share a robust conversation about Juniper's ability to successfully develop the platform. Press release [...]

You can’t tell Kubernetes from a cable modem? Google Cloud’s Kelsey Hightower walks me through the most basic of outcomes to understanding the basic primitive of Kubernetes. This is well worth the 28-mins.…

Wouldn’t it be great to get the same telemetry data from VM’s hosted in the public cloud that you can get from systems in the private data center? In theory, Cloud architects and engineers receive valuable data that could help …

Long-time guest of the podcast Bobby Allen has left his role as CTO of Cloudgenera. Where did this cloud economist go? Was it to a vendor in need of cloud expertise such as Dell, VMware, or HPE? Or if you …

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 …

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, the pair discuss how to know if Kubernetes is right for you.

VMware’s Chris Wolf is in a new role as VP of Advance Technology Group in the Office of the CTO. Chris’ team is responsible for taking VMware’s graduated innovation to customers to realize value. Keith sits down with Chris to get an idea of the projects that VMware has graduated and how they reach production with customer events, including how VMware enables its field to educate customers.