The CTO Advisor

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 [...]

About the session - The session of the informal independent analyst council, Keit, Maribel, Tim, and Larry discussed IBM's Think conference, focusing on the company's AI and hybrid cloud strategy, as well as the integration of AI and infrastructure. Key speakers - Speaker A: Keith - Speaker B: Maribel - Speaker C: Tim [...]

Overview This episode of the CTO Advisor podcast discusses IBM Watsonx.Data, a part of IBM’s AI platform and toolset. The conversation focuses on the concept of a data lake house and its role in data governance and analytics. Tony Baer, …

A cast of independent analysts comprised of, Keith Townsend (The CTO Advisor), Maribel Lopez (Lopez Research), Tim Crawford (AVOA), and Larry Carvalho (Robust Cloud) discuss the current state of Generative AI for the enterprise. Chapters : :50 Introduction 3:45 The Lens of an Enterprise Architect - Keith 6:50 The Opportunities & Concerns about Foundational Models [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]