Keith Townsend, the Principal of the CTO Advisor, sits with Red Hat Director of Market Insights, Stu Miniman, to discuss platform engineering and Red Hat's collaboration with AWS Cloud. IBM sponsored this conversation. Visit Red Hat's Kubecon booth - red.ht/KubeConEU2023 To learn more about ROSA partnerships with SaaS providers - https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-celonis-make-hybrid-multicloud-reality-intelligent-business-execution https://newsroom.ibm.com/2022-05-11-IBM-Signs-Strategic-Collaboration-Agreement-with-Amazon-Web-Services-to-Deliver-IBM-Software-as-a-Service-on-AWS

As promised, Ned Bellavance joins the podcast to discuss all things creator AI. From programming to content creation, Ned shares how he leverages generative AI tools in his creative workflow. Keith and Ned also discuss the impact to industries.

In this sponsored podcast. The CTO Advisor, Keith Townsend, sits down with Roger Premo, General Manager, Corporate Strategy and Ventures, IBM. The duo discusses IBM's special relationship with Red Hat and how the company leverages OpenShift across public clouds, private infrastructure, and IBM's in-house products and services.

X as Code expert Ned Bellavance rejoins the podcast to discuss the latest battle in open-source licensing between MinIO and WekaIO and how customers should think about open-source licensing. Show Notes: Ned's Pluralsight Courses: https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/edward-bellavance Block and Files Article on MinIO/WekaIO: https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/03/26/we-object-minio-says-no-more-open-license-for-you-weka/

Today, Keith chats with author Swathi Young about the AI and Machine Learning ethics framework.  Keith asks the hard questions in regards to responsibility and policies.  What is Ethical AI?  What should CTO’s consider in AI projects?  What guardrails should citizen data scientists consider?

Allyson Klein moderates a panel of industry experts on how we achieve true multi-cloud automation, the challenges of automation today, and technology advancement in VMs, containers, and web assembly architectures to achieve single pane of glass oversight. Don't forget to check out ctoavc.com for more of this content and all our sessions from The CTO [...]

Keith Townsend is solo this week to discuss Broadcom's proposed acquisition of VMware. VMware is in R&D and innovation in multi-cloud management. An area requiring massive investment. Broadcom is brilliant at getting the most for its shareholders out of its software investments. These two areas of capability don't seem complementary. Keith suggests questions you should [...]

Calvin Hendryx-Parker, CTO of Six Feet Up, a Pyhton Consulting Firm, shares his journey of building their in-house event hosting platform with Keith Townsend. Hyndryx-Parker shares the journey of commercializing the solution and the pros and cons of developers turned operators. The duo also discusses some of the architecture decisions and why Six Feet Up [...]

Faction CTO Matt Wallace returns to the CTO Advisor podcast to talk data architecture with Keith Townsend. Matt walks Keith through the basics of Hadoop and HDFS to more modern concepts such as AWS EMR and where things break. The two discuss how Enterprise Architecture and Data Architecture intersect to ensure users can collaborate on [...]

RackN CEO Rob Hirschfeld returns to the podcast to talk supercloud with host Keith Townsend. Keith and Rob reflect on some "free" advisory Keith provided Rob during a chat at re: Invent 2022. The two go into some technical detail about the benefits and challenges of abstracting cloud infrastructure to provide a consistent developer experience [...]