The CTO Advisor

Director of OpenShift Strategy & CloudCast host Brian Gracely joins the podcast to talk Kubernetes in the enterprise. As a previously active member of the OpenStack community, Brian brings a unique view as he now leads strategy for Kubernetes at …

Director of OpenShift Strategy & CloudCast host Brian Gracely joins the podcast to talk Kubernetes in the enterprise. As a previously active member of the OpenStack community, Brian brings a unique view as he now leads strategy for Kubernetes at Red Hat.

Keith and Brian talk discuss the effort to make OpenStack-based OpenShift a PaaS and the lessons learned to the Kubernetes distribution. A critical part of the conversation is how Red Hat brings their enterprise experience to making Kubernetes consumable for the typical enterprise IT shop.

At 22:00, Keith asks the competitive question. It’s not the obvious OpenShift vs. VMware PKS but Openshift vs. public cloud services.

Keith caught up with Dr. GP Pulipaka during SAP Sapphire 2019. Dr. Pulipaka is an AI expert and Data Scientist with Accenture. Dr. Pulipaka introduces the concept of reinforcement learning vs. more traditional pattern based ML. Topics covered include: General introduction to Reinforcement Learning Various Algorithms Use cases Current state of the technology Dr. Pulipaka’s [...]

Keith caught up with Dr. GP Pulipaka during SAP Sapphire 2019. Dr. Pulipaka is an AI expert and Data Scientist with Accenture. Dr. Pulipaka introduces the concept of reinforcement learning vs. more traditional pattern based ML. Topics covered include:

General introduction to Reinforcement Learning

Various Algorithms

Use cases

Current state of the technology

Dr. Pulipaka’s upcoming book is entitled PyTorch.

Nathan Avery (@Nathan_Avery) of NotYourDadsIT.com joins the program after day one of Dell Technologies World. Keith and Nathan discuss the announcements of the day as well as the impact on their respective customer and the industry at large.

Nathan Avery (@Nathan_Avery) of NotYourDadsIT.com joins the program after day one of Dell Technologies World. Keith and Nathan discuss the announcements of the day as well as the impact on their respective customer and the industry at large.

Mark and Keith are joined by Matt Broberg and Luigi Danakos. The friends share stories about life surrounding IT. Just a practical conversation about surviving layoffs, job searches, and career challenges.

Matt shares an update from his job search …

RackN CEO Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle), joins the CTO Advisor for episode 100!!! (Sorry Chad, we’ll get you on for a ceremonial episode 100). With the growth in interest for VMware Cloud on AWS and AWS bare metal cloud, what is the market for bare metal cloud and automaton? Rob attempts to argue the value of bare metal automation. Rob makes the argument for Fry Cooks racking and stack at the edge. The conversation is wide ranging to why OpenStack didn’t work and Kubernetes at the edge.

RackN CEO Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle), joins the CTO Advisor for episode 100!!! (Sorry Chad, we’ll get you on for a ceremonial episode 100). With the growth in interest for VMware Cloud on AWS and AWS bare metal cloud, what is the market for bare metal cloud and automaton? Rob attempts to argue the value of [...]

One of the advantages of Keith and Mark working for VMware is the ability to get guest working on world-class software. Today’s guest is Andrei Warkentin, Arm Enablement Architect at VMware. Andrei is helping to lead the development of VMware’s …