The CTO Advisor

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VMware Explore 2025: VCF 9, Developer Tribes, and the Future of Private Cloud – with Steven Dickens
In this episode, Keith Townsend welcomes back Steven Dickens, founder of Hyperframe Research, for a candid conversation following VMware Explore 2025. The duo dives deep into the latest developments f
AGI, Superintelligence, and the Race for Compute with Brian Wang
Show Notes: On this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith sits down with independent analyst Brian Wang of Next Big Future to unpack one of the hottest debates in enterprise IT and AI research:
Modernizing Network Ops in a Post-Cowboy World – CTO Advisor Podcast with Guest Scott Robohn
In this special CTO Advisor Podcast episode, Keith Townsend sits down with Scott Robohn, founder of Tech Sales Craft and co-founder of the Network Automation Forum, for a timely conversation recorded
From CapEx Chaos to AI Scale: Kamiwaza CEO Luke Norris on the Future of Enterprise AI Infrastructure
Episode Summary / Show Notes: The AI infrastructure game is changingfast. In this episode of The CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend sits down with Luke Norris, CEO of Kamiwaza, just steps from #Nv
AI Assisted App Development with AWS’ Bryan Liles
Episode Summary:In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend welcomes back Bryan Lilesa veteran developer and cloud expertto discuss AI-assisted application development. The conversati
Deepseek’s Impact on Your AI Strategy
In this episode, Keith Townsend is joined by Dion HinchcliffeVP and Practice Lead for The Futurum Groups CIO practiceto explore the monumental impact of DeepSeek, a new large language model (LLM) t
AI Trends for 2025: Productivity, Integration, and Agentic AI
In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, recorded on December 18, 2024, Keith looks back on the major tech trends that are set to shape the landscape as we head into 2025. Drawing insights from rec
Replay-Server-side Web Assembly with Adobe’s Colin Murphy
After meeting at Kubecon, Keith gets in touch with Colin Murphy, a Senior Software Engineer at Adobe Systems, to discuss Web Assembly. They delve into how Adobe has employed Web Assembly to bring end-
Replay-GitBOM. It’s not Git or SBOM
Join Keith, Aeva Black (@aevavoom), and returning guest Ed Warnicke (@edwarnicke) as they dive into the world of GitBOM. Its not a Git tool, nor is it exactly an SBOM, so how does it enhance software
Coding Without Code: A Journey in Low-code/No-Code Development
In this episode of the CTO Advisor podcast, host Keith Townsend welcomes Delainy Dalton, a No-Code Developer in the healthcare insurance sector. Delainy shares her extraordinary journey from healthcar