The CTO Advisor

In this enlightening episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Chris Williams joins host Keith Townsend to revisit their memorable discussion from Las Vegas about the complexities of Kubernetes. Chris shares how Keith's clear explanation became his first true understanding of Kubernetes, marking a pivotal learning moment. Now a DevRel Manager at HashiCorp, Chris dives deep [...]

Host: Keith Townsend, Futurum Global Advisor Guest: Miles Ward, CTO of Sada Overview: This episode of the CTO Advisor podcast features a return guest, Miles Ward, to discuss the technological and strategic advancements in data management and cloud migrations, focusing on the challenges of data sovereignty and the innovative solutions developed to address these complex [...]

Keith Townsend interviews Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonan. Cohesity announced the intended acquisition of Veritas' data protection business. The acquisition will close a significant gap in the amount of data on protection for Cohesity. However, Townsend challenges Sanjay on the gap in use cases for Cohesity vs. Veritas. Poonan speaks to the current market and the opportunity [...]

Introducing Alastair Cooke as a full-time voice within the Futurum Group Family via the CTO Advisor. Alastair will wear two hats within the Futurum Group. He's helping support the Signal65 Labs and is an analyst with the CTO Advisor. Alastair is experienced in data center and cloud technologies. He's supported many of our existing research and lab projects. [...]

This episode, Keith Townsend sits down with Jim King, Sales Director of SES Satellites, to talk about the importance of space networking—that is, satellite broadband. Jim and I explore why space networking is essential, especially in scenarios where terrestrial service is not available or practical. When disaster strikes, reliable communication is essential. Our sponsor SES [...]

Return guest Nathaniel Avery joins podcast host Keith Townsend to talk platform engineering. Specifically, the duo talks about the holy grail of creating a developer platform where developers focus on code and platform engineers create a seamless workflow. Many of these patterns existed during the height of the virtual machine (VM). Is there anything new in the desire [...]

*New York Times CTO, Nick Rockwell, joins Keith and Mark to talk about the big bet the New York Times is making on Serverless. Nick believes serverless is a bigger shift in computing than Cloud computing. The belief is so strong, that Rockwell made a bet on a Serverless architecture for the New York Times [...]

Keith is no longer the Principal of the CTO Advisor. What’s next, and what does that mean for the podcast?

We continue our conversation with Algolia’s CTO, Sean Mullaney. In this editorial conversation, Keith and Sean discuss the difference between developing code and AI models. The duo also discusses the drivers for multi-cloud and overcoming the challenges associated with cost and engineering resources.

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.

Dan Newman, The Futurum Group CEO, joins Keith Townsend, President of the CTO Advisor, to discuss the current state of VMware while the companies await the Chinese government to approve the $61B deal. Recorded at VMware Explore 2023 EU

Guy Currier, the Futurum Group Contributor, joins the podcast from Super Compute 23. Keith and Guy discuss the news out of Super Computer 2023 and how the intersection of AI infrastructure meets and relates to HPC infrastructure.

Alex Ellis, founder of OpenFaaS Limited, returns to the program to discuss his company's latest product, Actuated. Keith and Alex discuss the challenges of building ARM code via emulation on x86 and the ability to go between platforms. Alex shares stories from the field while Keith challenges him on security and compliance.

CTO Advisor podcast host, Keith Townsend has been a long time follower of Zerto data protection. Zerto has traditionally provided data protection via replication for hardware agnostic environments. In this sponsored podcast, Verma Deepak, VP of Product at Zerto, an HPE Company discusses the idea of Zerto as an HPE GreenLake product. Does HPE GreenLake [...]

Keith is no longer the Principal of the CTO Advisor. What's next, and what does that mean for the podcast?

Cisco announced its intended acquisition of Splunk for $28B. Security industry analyst Jo Peterson shares her thoughts on the impact of the acquisition and the five things to watch.

Josh Odgers, founder of End to End, joins Keith Townsend, host of the CTO Advisor Studio, to discuss potential opportunities for partners post-acquisition of VMware by Broadcom. Odgers formed End to End to help existing partners fill the demand for the VCDX-Level architectural design talent gap. The duo discuss the current state of cloud design [...]

Daniel Newman, Futurum Group's Principal Analyst and CEO, joins Keith Townsend on this week's podcast. Both analysts attended VMware's annual conference, VMware Explore. Newman's primary focus is on enterprise IT companies' financial and market health and, thus, their ability to deliver on promises to customers and shareholders. Townsend focuses on the viability of a company's [...]

NAND Research Principal Analyst and Founding Partner Steve Mcdowell joins host Keith Townsend to discuss the announcements from VMware Explore 2023.

Rita Maria Fuziol,Director Data Center, Cloud, and Infrastructure at Millicom (Tigo), joined the program to discuss the opportunities and challenges of building a regional cloud provider in South America. The topics range from Opensource to building a cloud with limited resources compared to the major cloud providers.

We continue our conversation with Algolia's CTO, Sean Mullaney. In this editorial conversation, Keith and Sean discuss the difference between developing code and AI models. The duo also discuss the drivers for multicloud and overcoming the challenges associated with cost and engineering resources.

This podcast episode of the CTO Advisor podcast episode is sponsored by Algolia software. In this episode, Keith Townsend interviews Algolia's CTO, Sean Mullaney. The pair discuss a practical use for generative AI for e-commerce websites. The range of topics include AI Infrastructure, AI training, and AI Inferencing focused on the shopping experience. [...]

About the session This episode features a conversation between Keith Townsend and Kevin Schwaba, an account executive for Cockroach DB. They discuss Kevin's career journey, his experiences working in different sales roles, and the challenges and insights he has gained along the way. It's a unique journey from talking to direct business value to the [...]

Google Cloud's Outbound Product Manager, Bobby Allen, a familiar voice to the podcast, brought along Stephen Orban, Google Cloud VP of Migrations. Stephen has several years of experience on the customer side. Stephen's background includes leading a cloud migration at Dow Jones and web services at Bloomberg. In addition to his customer-side experience, Stephen spent [...]

Yadin Porter Deleòn joins Keith Townsend in today's episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast. In this episode, Keith and Yadin discuss the current state of enterprise tech communities of practice. As the reality of a hybrid cloud takes hold, the enterprise IT community must learn to deal with divergent communities. From cloud-native to vendor-specific, Keith [...]