The CTO Advisor

Replay of the session from the CTO Advisor Virtual Conference. In this expert panel, our guests will tackle the concept of public cloud workload repatriation. It is a thing but who big of a thing and what are the primary …

Replay of the session from the CTO Advisor Virtual Conference. In this expert panel, our guests will tackle the concept of public cloud workload repatriation. It is a thing but who big of a thing and what are the primary drivers for moving workloads from the public cloud back to the private data center. Join Keith Townsend as he engages Jo Peterson, Tim Crawford, Bobby Allen, and Matt Wallace.

vSphere 7 and Kubernetes – CTO Advisor Episode 118

CTO Dose co-host Joep Piscaer joins the program to discuss vSphere 7 and his impressions of the Kubernetes integration. Project Tanzu Grid is the updated branding for Project Pacific. Did VMware’s initial release live up to the hype or should customers wait and see?

Working From Home at Scale – CTO Advisor Episode 117

A casual conversation with friend to the program Nate Avery. How have his Federal Government clients reacted to working from home? How has the technology held up and what is Nate doing to keep connected with the community?

Coronavirus Disaster Recovery – CTO Advisor Episode 116

Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting Principal Consultant Joey D’Antoni joins the program again. This time to talk about the impact of Coronavirus on IT conferences and the day-to-day operations of companies. Microsoft announced that its San Francisco and Seattle-based employees must work from home. How would a similar directive impact your org? What are some of the considerations? While this is an industry first, D’Antoni shares some best practices.

Public Cloud Repatriation – Is it real?

We have the CloudGenera CTO Bobby Allen on the podcast again this week. Keith and Bobby discuss the concept of repatriation and what scenarios are worth considering. Bobby also describes some of the back office politics of cloud repatriation.

Why is IT Automation so Hard?

Friend of the program Larry Smith Jr. sits down with Keith to discuss why IT Infrastructure automation is so hard. Larry has been working in IT automation for 5-years and shares his wealth of knowledge around tools vs. culture.

In this Dell Technologies sponsored podcast, Dell Marketing’s Conor Duffy, David Iovino, and Justin Jones all join the program. Dell made big splash with Intel back in November of 2019 by announcing a new converged infrastructure (CI) system. However, in the age of HCI and the public cloud, where’s the space for a new converged infrastructure system? Dell Technologies is making the argument that customers looking to achieve similar outcomes to public cloud should look toward Dell Technologies and PowerOne for those outcomes. Keith challenges the team on the approach to Dell making the investment in 10’s of thousands of lines of code to automate infrastructure without knowing individual customer environments. Dell makes the case for customers trusting Dell with automation.

Dell Technologies PowerOne – Dell’s Private Cloud?

Replay – The Uber(lization) of Enterprise IT – CTO Advisor 113