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Author: Keith Townsend

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Small doses of commentary about enterprise IT for the CTO and Sr. Architect
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In this interview, Keith Townsend sits down with Patrick Wang, VP of Corp. Strategy for SuperMicro. Patrick walks the audience through the journey of SuperMicro from a components company to a solutions company with the ability to engineer and manufacture solutions within San Jose.
There's a use case for AWS EC2 inside the private data center just as there's a use case for Azure services inside the data center or VMware inside public clouds. This CTO Dose helps explain the EC2 use case along with the general direction of the industry.
Paul Woodward (explorevm.com) joins the program to discuss the business value of modern backup systems.
Matt Carpe @mattThatITguy joins the program to discuss his first impressions of Rubrik's Polaris metadata platform.
Rubrik Technical Marketing Engineer, Demetrius Malbrough, joins the CTO Dose to discuss how he used networking and social media to move up from a Support Engineer role to a Technical Marketing Engineer's role. Great career advice regardless of your career or career level. Join his Backup Professionals LinkedIn Group.  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/75803/profile
Rebbeca Fitzhugh, Technical Marketing Manager at Rubrik describes what its like to work for a vendor vs. her previous roles at VAR's and freelancing.
HPE announced their frequently renamed Hybrid Cloud control plan product OneSphere at HPE Discover 2016. It was an ambitious attempt of centralizing the cloud control plan without offering a brokering service. According to the HPE's VP and GM of Hybrid Cloud the goal is to provide the balance of control of operations while exposing cloud API's directly to developers.This sponsored CTO Dose is a good starting point to discussing the role of OneSphere in the hybrid cloud.  Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
A few years ago, I wrote how VDI was dying or needed to die. I was a big believer in replatforming applications for a native mobile experience. When VMware purchased a VDI company I moaned and groaned about it being the past. Well fast forward a few years and VMware's EUC is over a $1B business. It turns out VDI is a critical part of a digital transformation strategy. In this CTO Dose recorded at Rubrik, I interviewed Ahead Architect Sean P Massey about the importance of End User Computing (EUC) to a successful digital transformation plan.  Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
Diane Green joined the Cisco CEO on stage during the Cisco Live US (#CLUS) Day 1 Keynote. Diane and Chuck laid out a vision of using Kubernetes to orchestrate the movement of workloads from the private data center to the public cloud. On paper the solution makes sense. So, why aren't we buying what Cisco is selling?  Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
SAP is slowly becoming a platform company powered by HANA. SAPPHIRE 2018 centered around the theme of the Intelligent Business. You can't have that conversation without mentioning the Cloud. I got an update on SAP's public Cloud strategy and a good sense of where enterprises should focus efforts. This CTO Dose reviews SAP's Cloud maturity. Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
VMware Cloud Services

VMware Cloud Services

2018-05-2117:46

 Milan Desai, GM of VMware Cloud Services, joins the podcast to help the masses understand VMware's Cloud Services offerings. We know about VMware Cloud on AWS but VMware has 9-cloud services which include Network Insight. Are these services just "SaaS-ified" versions of VMwVMware's existing products and offerings? And how are they delivered?  Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
Introduction to RackN

Introduction to RackN

2018-05-1008:37

During Interop ITX 2018, Keith had a chance to catch up with RackN CEO Rob Hirschfield to discuss the company. Learn how RackN orchestrates bare metal workloads to provide cloud capability to the data center. Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
During Interop ITX, Keith Townsend interviews DXC Application CTO JP Morgenthal about the current state of containers and application development. What applications should be containerized and which should be leverage a different application set. Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
Automation is a key to data center modernization. However, automation isn’t just about the technology. Keith Townsend interviews vExpert and Automation Engineer Brett Johnson during Interop ITX to discuss the top 3 challenges to automation. Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
Scott Lowe is fairly well-known in the VMware/Virtualization community. Scott made the surprising decision to leave VMware for Kubernetes startup Heptio. Keith asks Scott about the container movement and his decision to leave VMware. Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
The enterprise moves slowly. The container and container orchestration movement is fast. There is a speed impedance. Keith and Turbonomic's Director of Marketing, Eric Wright (@discoposse) discuss this impedance and how it will lead to enterprises adopting containers for monolithic applications.  Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
Should you deploy containers yes or no? The noise from Docker, Kubernetes, Pivotal PKS, and the vendors make you believe container adoption has reached peak. What’s the reality should your team investigate or even deploy containers at scale. What are the drivers beyond cloud-native application development? Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
Is Oracle Cloud an alternative to AWS? We visited Oracle-owned Ravello System as part of a blogger day and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as part of Cloud Field Day 3. How does the platform compare to Azure, AWS, and Google compute?  Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
Innovative or not innovative. Cloud Field Day 3 featured a good number of companies that are making the transition from traditional private infrastructure products to cloud-native. Cloud architect Ned Bellavance shares his impressions of the trends during Cloud Field Day 3 vendors.  Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
Conversation with Ed Warnicke about the intersection of cloud-native (Kubernetes) and networking during Open Networking Summit. Audio Podcast - Subscribe iTunes | RSS
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