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.

Former Speaking in Tech host Greg Knieriemen, joins the podcast. Greg is known as an emphatic defender of Private Cloud. I've said Private Cloud is dead. I, Greg and Mark agree for the most part. Where's the delta? In this podcast we define Private Cloud and opine on the state of the industry and what customers want when asking for Private Cloud.

Matt Broberg VP of Community at monitoring startup Sensu joins the podcast to talk the value of community in helping achieve professional growth and reaching enterprise IT goals. I there a way to measure the return of investing in a community? Is there a difference between developers and infrastructure teams? Matt talks about the value of communities such as VMware User Groups and developer communities. How are communities in Portland different than communities in Cincinnati?

Lisa Caywood rejoins the podcast to give us an overview of the Linux Foundation. Lisa sheds light to topics such as what makes a good project, how big is the foundation and what functions are provided by the foundation. Keith and Lisa go a little deeper into conversations around network projects administered by the foundation.

Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) is the new hot technology inside the Valley and out. We are joined by ML expert and This Week in Machine Learning (TWiML) host Sam Charrington educates me and Mark on the basics of ML, the use cases, dataset, algorithms and cloud services.

Show Notes

- AWS Deeplens (AWS hotdog not a hotdog)

- Tensor Flow

- Andrew NG’s AI Coursera course