This episode of the CTO Advisor podcast features Sanjeev Mohan, the founder of Sanjmo Advisory Firm and a former VP of research at Gartner. Sanjeev and Keith Townsend discuss the concept of "Super Cloud" and whether it is a real thing or not. Sanjeev believes that it's a natural progression from single cloud to multi-cloud [...]

The CTO Advisor features a special guest, David Linthicum, Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte. In this episode, Dave and the host, Keith Townsend, discuss cloud repatriation, or the process of bringing workloads and data sets back to traditional systems from the cloud. They discuss the business value considerations driving repatriation, such as cost savings [...]

In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, host Keith Townsend sits down with industry veteran and accomplished entrepreneur Steven Kaplan. Steven has authored several books, started and managed several companies, and has a wealth of experience in the industry. The conversation centers around the journey of entrepreneurs transitioning to full-time employees, and the risks [...]

Keith Townsend sits down with Keith Parsons, Managing Director of Wireless LAN Professionals Conference to discuss their upcoming conference in Phoenix, AZ. Parsons has a unique approach to IT conferences. You won't find any vendors looking to give away swag or scan your badge. It's all about the content and networking with your peers. Does [...]

How crazy is the idea of running a data center inside your home? According to Nick Howell, Global Cloud Field CTO for NetApp, not as crazy as buying an Airstream and renting a booth at VMware Explore San Francisco. However, that's a low standard. @datacntrdude joins the program and talks about the why of hosting [...]

We are jazzed to have DaShaun Carter, VMware Spring Developer Advocate, on the CTO Advisor Studio at VMware Explore 2022. Dashaun presented at both of the VMware Explore 2022 Keynotes. CTO Advisor Studio host Keith Townsend probes DaShaun's journey to the stage.

GigaOM Sr. Storage Analyst Enrico Signoretti joins Keith Townsend in the latest podcast. The analyst pair compare notes from AWS re: Invent 2022 Technical Keynote Werner Vogels Keynote. Did Vogels provide a compelling enough argument to go all in on AWS Lambda Serverless and data analytics platforms or should customers look to cloud-native abstractions? [...]

Independent Analyst and CTO Advisor Joep Piscaer join The CTO Advisor Studio Host, Keith Townsend, during VMware Explore 2022 EU to discuss how the concept of the Platform Team compares to the DevOps movement. Are these two concepts at odds or complementary?

Another boots-on-the-ground interview at VMware Explore 2022. Jens Söldner, Principle Managing Partner, and Cornelius May, Junior Consultant, both of Söldner Consult GmbH, join the program. The pair share their experience consulting companies in Germany on their integration and migration (to and from) the Cloud.

Keith Bradley VP of Information Technology for Nature Fresh Farms sits with CTO Advisor Principle Keith Townsend. Bradley shares how Nature Fresh Farms manages 1.5M edge devices that produce 25GB of data per season