The CTO Advisor

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 [...]

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.