The CTO Advisor

Understanding the Australian Census issues and the enterprise lessons

Is the SDDC a single solution or even a single set of API's

An interview with DSSD D5 Product Manager Matt McDonough during EMCWorld 2015

Every vendor is claiming their solution is software-defined. Does just having software enough to make something software defined As engineers focused on building software-defined infrastructures, myself, Josh Atwell and Mark May, we debate what's software-defined. What are the characteristics of software-defined and the benefits. Honorable mention goes out to Rawlinson Rivera and Jack Poller for having the original conversation during dinner at Interop. The Jalapeno Octopus was excellent!

Does Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) save money? I've been quoted as saying HCI doesn't save money over traditional 3-tier architectures. I'm joined my Nutanix' Steve Kaplan (@ROIDude) and discuss in further nuance where HCI is used for cost avoidance or optimization over 3-tier architectures.

I sat down with EMC’s President of Cloud Platform, Brian Gallagher for this special one-on-one interview during EMCWorld. Brian leads the Virtrustream team within EMC. Brian helped shed light on the following topics.

I didn't perform much editing of video because when you get an guest like Vaughn you let him talk and get gems from the verbage. Vaughn is a VP and Evangelist for Pure Storage. Wide open conversation from the origins NFS and VMware integration and new infrastructure architectures.

The vBrownbag series of webcasts gets over 100K downloads a year. What is the series, who makes it tick and how can you get involved as a speaker or sponsor? Jonathan Frappier answer these questions and more in the latest CTO Advisor Podcast.

I'm joined by Built.IO director of evangelism Kurt Collins. I and Kurt have been meaning to connect for a few months. Built.IO is looking to simplify using API's across multiple services and reduce or eliminate API lock-in. We discuss the risk of API lock-in and how Built solution helps to limit the risk. As a bonus we discuss Facebook bots and the future of connected cities.

In this episode I'm joined by the person I have some of the most interesting Twitter discussion. I've known Tyler Brittin for a few years now. We've had some epic conversations about how we both agree that infrastructure doesn't offer value to the business. However, infrastructure is needed. We discuss the value prop of Bluebox and how it fits into IBM's cloud strategy. We spend the bulk of our time talking about serverless computing and go a little deep into how the sausage is made for serverless computing interacts with solutions such as Openstack.