We've been promising to do a behind the scenes look at the CTO Advisor and let you in on the private side of the business. The CTO Advisor is a family owned endeavor with Keith and Melissa Townsend at the helm. What were some of the challenges in starting and running a business as husband [...]

We've been promising to do a behind the scenes look at the CTO Advisor and let you in on the private side of the business. The CTO Advisor is a family owned endeavor with Keith and Melissa Townsend at the helm. What were some of the challenges in starting and running a business as husband and wife. What were some of the expected experiences of running the CTO Advisor vs. the reality? Great raw conversation between the founders of The CTO Advisor.

Milan Desai, GM of VMware Cloud Services, joins the podcast to help the masses understand VMware's Cloud Services offerings. We know about VMware Cloud on AWS but VMware has 9-cloud services which include Network Insight. Are these services just "SaaS-ified" versions of VMwVMware's existing products and offerings? And how are they delivered?

Keith, Mark and Howard Marks are all headed to Dell Technologies world. After the $57B purchase of EMC, what are the three impressions of Dell Technologies post-acquisition? The three debate if there's an argument for an all Dell Technologies stack vs. Public Cloud.

VMware landed into the network space with NSX. Now the company is expanding into SDWAN by acquiring Velocloud. In this replay of a CTO Dose, Keith sits down and talks to VMware's VP and CTO of Network Security Business Unit Pere Monclus. Keith asks about VMware's plans for Velocloud and future integration with VMware NSX.

A tad geeky for a normal CTO Dose but a great conversation with FD.IO about the combination of Network Function Virtualization and Kubernetes. It's a natural progression for Network Functions which exist in Virtual Machines today to move to Containers. What do developers care about? What capabilities does Kubernetes bring and where are the gaps?

Keith has a great conversation with the co-founders of Nirmata about containers in the enterprise. Are the customers they engage leveraging micro-services or traditional three-tier applications? Where do customers start their container journey? Why not just leverage virtual machines package applications and develop applications?

Keith visited the VMware campus and did a series of interviews with VMware. Those videos can found at ctodose.com. In this interview, Keith challenges the GM of VMware's Cloud Services B/U. What is the BU, what is VMware's container strategy, and why should VMware's customers follow VMware's lead into cloud-native?

In this sponsored episode, Keith and Mark talk with Uila CEO Chia-Chee Kuan about the Uila performance monitoring tool. While at AWS reInvent, the CTO Advisor team noted the number of application monitoring solutions. The reason for the growth in the space is the complexity of hybrid-cloud infrastructure on monitoring performance that drives business results. Keith and Mark ask Kuan how Uila adds value to the business and how the solution is packaged and works.

VMware's VP of Software Defined, Dom Delfino (@domfather) joins the podcast to talk where organizations should start their cloud journey. Dom answers challenges questions about where VMware plays a role in traditional infrastructure while keeping an eye on cloud-native applications. Dom provides career advice for architects stuck on the legacy side of infrastructure.