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 bui

Building and Managing Multicloud AI Infrastructure

Jul 26th, 2023

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 chal

Algolia – Powering Discovery via AI

Jul 12th, 2023

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 r

Career Changes from Salesforce to Twilio to CockroachDB

Jun 28th, 2023

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 an

Application Modernization at Google Scale

Jun 14th, 2023

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 leadi

Communities of Practice

May 31st, 2023

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 ente

Independent Analysts Recap of IBM Think 2023

May 24th, 2023

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 infrastruc

Understanding a the value of a Data Lake House

May 17th, 2023

OverviewThis 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, …

Building a “Psuedo” Cloud Provider – A Telco Journey

May 10th, 2023

SummaryThis episode is recorded at a special Juniper Enterprise Analyst and Influencer conference held in Dallas, Texas, where a Juniper customer, Rita Maria Fuziol, discusses innovation challenges in the service provider industry, particularl

Independent Analysis of Generative AI

Apr 26th, 2023

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

How IBM and Red Hat Support Platform Engineering Efforts?

Apr 18th, 2023

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

Who’s Afraid of ChatGPT?

Apr 12th, 2023

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.

What are IBM’s Hybrid Cloud and AI Capabilities?

Apr 5th, 2023

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 acr

What are IBM’s Hybrid Cloud and AI Capabilities?

Apr 5th, 2023

Opensource Licensing Danger Zone?

Mar 29th, 2023

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.pl

Replay-Ethical AI with Swathi Young

Mar 22nd, 2023

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 gua

The Holy Grail of Truly Automated Multi-Cloud

Mar 15th, 2023

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

VMware Broadcom Merger – What Innovation to Outsource

Mar 8th, 2023

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 sharehold

Build vs. SaaS with Calvin Hyndryx-Parker

Mar 1st, 2023

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 co

Enterprise Architecture Meets Data Architecture

Feb 22nd, 2023

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 ho

The Challenge of Creating a SuperCloud with Rob Hirschfeld

Feb 8th, 2023

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 ben

The Power of Abstraction: The Case for Super Clouds with Sanjeev Mohan

Feb 1st, 2023

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. S

Cloud Workload Repatriation with Deloitte’s David Linthicum

Jan 25th, 2023

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 trad