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Pursuing a Ph.D&Hybrid Cloud Security from 2022-04-27T18:56:49
Keith talks with Cyber Security expert Dr. Wade Holmes(@wholmes) regarding the challenges associated with the pursuit of his doctorate and current cyber security project that looks at the increased...
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Cloud Identity Management with Hashicorp Vault&vSphere from 2022-04-20T19:53:05
Keith speaks with returning guest Martez Reed(@greenreedtech), Marketing Director for Morpheus Data about his project that addresses the simplification of credential deployment across cloud-native ...
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Teaching Infrastructure from Experience from 2022-04-13T19:49:05
After four years of trying to be on each other’s podcast, Keith Townsend and Joel Beasley finally join forces to talk content, CTOs, and the CTO Advisor Hybrid Infrastructure and the lessons learne...
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GitBOM. It’s not Git or SBOM from 2022-04-06T17:46:55
Keith, Aeva Black (@aevavoom), and returning guest Ed Warnicke (@edwarnicke) talk in-depth about the GitBOM. If it’s not a Git or SBOM tool, how does it help with software bill of materials and sec...
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Data Repatriation with Joe Onisick from 2022-03-30T16:27:47
Keith and Joe Onisick, (@JoeOnisick) Principal at Transformation Continuum talk about Data Repatriation.
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NetOps vs. Cloud Native from 2022-03-16T16:41:56
Keith talks with Ed Warnicke(@edwarnicke) co-founder of The Network Service Mesh Project at CNCF.
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Amanda Blevins’ Journey to Becoming a CTO from 2022-03-09T15:08:11
Keith talks with VMware’s Americas CTO Amanda Blevins(@amandablev) about her VP-level role and the journey to her success.
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Recovering from Ransomware via All-Flash from 2022-03-02T16:40
Keith speaks with Howard Marks(@deepstoragenet) of VAST continuing the theme of data storage evolution focusing on backups. How does All-Flash help with recovery from ransomware?
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Mainframes and Kubernetes from 2022-02-23T18:53:13
Keith and storage expert Chris M. Evans(@chrismevans) talk about the feasibility of running Linux on the Mainframe and by extension Kubernetes. They conclude the discussion with considerations for ...
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Replay: Is Kubernetes Right for Your Organization? from 2022-02-16T16:23:07
Friend of the show Alex Ellis joins to discuss OpenFaaS LTD winning Best of VMworld. Keith and Alex talk a little inside baseball around the VMware Event Broker Appliance and OpenFaaS. In the wide-...
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Mid-Level Career Advancement for Individual Contributors from 2022-02-09T14:40:52
Phoummala Schmitt(@exchangegoddess) returns to the CTO Advisor podcast to talk about leveling up your career as an individual contributor. What happens when Exchange is no longer hosted on-premises...
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Web3–Is it just all Blockchain and Crypto? from 2022-02-02T13:48:37
In this podcast, Keith and David Aronchick (@aronchick) Co-director of Research Development at Protocol Labs talk about WEB3 and the theory of decentralizing trust in storage solutions. Learn more ...
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Hybrid-Infrastructure from the Ground–Maciej Lelusz from 2022-01-26T15:58:49
Keith and AWS Hero Maciej Lelusz chat about the challenges and solutions integrating the VMware environment in this hybrid cloud data center from an experienced engineer’s vantage point.
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The Data Gravity Index with Dave McCrory from 2022-01-19T14:25:10
In this podcast, Keith and Data Researcher Dave McCrory(@mccrory) touch on the concept of Data Gravity. Dave explains how it’s measured and the related benefits of tracking this science.
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VMware Cross-Cloud Strategy from 2022-01-12T15:42:22
In this podcast, Keith talks with Vittorio Viarengo, VP of Cloud Solutions Marketing at VMware. Vittorio answers questions about VMware’s take on multi-cloud and the solutions they implement for th...
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Ethical AI with Swathi Young from 2022-01-05T20:43:49
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 ...
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VMware Telco Strategy with Bryan Liles from 2021-12-15T14:54:22
Keith chats with Bryan Liles, Principal Engineer at VMware about his role at Telco and VMware. Keith and Bryan cover Bryan’s journey to becoming the only Black Principal Engineer at a Fortune 50 So...
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Not the Hero We Deserve but The AWS Hero We Need from 2021-12-08T14:09
Keith and AWS Hero Chris Williams (@mistwire) reflect briefly on AWS re: Invent. Chris summarizes his insights based on the information he gathered from this major conference recently held in Las V...
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Open Source at Large from 2021-12-01T14:17:06
In this CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith and Lisa Caywood (@reallisac) of Redhat chat about Open Source. They discuss its relevance in IT and the support needed to strengthen the longevity of such an imp...
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Understanding Infrastructure Automation from 2021-11-24T14:34:54
Keith speaks with Nick Brackney (@NickBrackney) of Dell Technologies about automation. Automation is the key to modern enterprise infrastructure. However, this stuff is hard and Nick helps break d...
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Patterns and Practices for Infrastructure as Code–Rosemary Wang from 2021-11-17T14:45:21
Keith and Rosemary Wang of Hashicorp catch up with each other and talk about security and policy. They also discuss the best practices and patterns across the various applications for policy implem...
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Cloud Infrastructure as Code from 2021-11-10T14:49:45
In this CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith and Bluecat SVP Petrisa Pecnik talk about cloud automation, the need for forward-thinking when and if the need for infrastructure improvements to keep up with thi...
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DevOps or Dev vs. Ops from 2021-11-03T13:27:05
Keith and Ned Bellavance (@ned1313) talk about DevOps or Dev vs. Ops. We pick on Portworx, again. We discuss the responsibility of Replication. Who repairs it when it goes down? Developers or Opera...
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Abstraction on Abstractions with Martez Reed from 2021-10-27T12:56:37
In this CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith and Martez Reed (@greenreedtech), Director of Technical Marketing at Morpheus talk about solving challenges regarding Storage Abstraction and sorting through the ...
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The Great Resignation with Kanika Tolver from 2021-10-20T08:07:53
Keith and Author/Career Coach Kanika Tolver talk about the current state of people empowering their careers; the mindset that employees and candidates are approaching the job search, and the level ...
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Jo Peterson from 2021-10-13T09:03:46
Keith and Jo Peterson of Clarify360 follow up on her speaking engagement from the CTOAdvisor Virtual event. Here they talk about the importance of Cloud Security and the need for constant safeguard...
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Work From Anywhere Application Monitoring–Uila CEO Chia-Chee Kuan from 2021-10-06T16:31:48
As a follow-up to Keith’s conversation with Tim Crawford; in today's podcast, Keith and Chia-Chee Kuan of Uila discuss the transition of employees returning to “the office” and the numerous challen...
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Tim Crawford from 2021-09-30T01:34:08
Here with Keith, is Tim Crawford (@tcrawford), an independent analyst. In this podcast, Keith and Tim discuss returning to work from a CIO perspective. They talk about the scramble to prepare the w...
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Cloud Economist Corey Quinn from 2021-06-24T15:57:24
Keith catches up with Duck Bill Group's Corey Quinn and talks all things hybrid. Where's the intersection of Corey's customers optimizing AWS bills for applications focused on transformation and Ke...
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What is Terraform 1.0?–CTO Advisor Road Trip interview with Ned Bellavance from 2021-06-15T15:09:10
The CTO Advisor Road Trip hits Philidelphia, PA. Keith visits Ned Bellavance's home. Ned is the founder of Ned In the Cloud LLC a company focused on technical education. Ned is an expert in Terrafo...
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Juniper Apstra 4.0–Sponsored from 2021-05-26T14:49:10
In this sponsored CTO Dose, Keith Townsend, Principal of the CTO, sits down with Mike Bushong, VP of Data Center at Juniper Networks. Juniper recently acquired Apstra. Apstra is software designed ...
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From Excel to Kubernetes–Super Dope Conversation with Kelsey Hightower from 2021-03-04T01:03:01
You can’t tell Kubernetes from a cable modem? Google Cloud’s Kelsey Hightower walks me through the most basic of outcomes to understanding the basic primitive of Kubernetes. This is well worth the ...
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Telemetry Data in the Public Cloud from 2021-02-08T18:57:56
Wouldn’t it be great to get the same telemetry data from VM’s hosted in the public cloud that you can get from systems in the private data center? In theory, Cloud architects and engineers receive ...
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Where’s Bobby? from 2021-02-02T17:54:20
Long-time guest of the podcast Bobby Allen has left his role as CTO of Cloudgenera. Where did this cloud economist go? Was it to a vendor in need of cloud expertise such as Dell, VMware, or HPE? Or...
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Is Kubernetes Right for Your Organization? from 2020-10-06T01:28:01
Friend of the show Alex Ellis joins to discuss OpenFaaS LTD winning best of VMworld. Keith and Alex talk a little inside baseball around the VMware Event Broker Appliance and OpenFaaS. In the wide-...
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VMware–Operationalizing Innovation from 2020-08-24T08:38:56
VMware’s Chris Wolf is in a new role as VP of Advance Technology Group in the Office of the CTO. Chris’ team is responsible for taking VMware’s graduated innovation to customers to realize value. K...
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Introducing Edgevana–Mark Thiele from 2020-08-11T07:37:49
Edge + Cloud = Data Center? That’s the equation that Mark Thiele, CEO and Founder of Edgevana presents in the latest podcast episode. We’ve had Mark on when he was in the co-lo business and again a...
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Edge to Cloud: This isn’t Your Father’s Tractor from 2020-07-21T01:07:58
Keith Townsend assembled a panel of experts to define and discuss Edge Computing. The conversation ranges between what is the edge to who is the customer for edge. Show Notes Panel CEO RackN – Rob...
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When is Free Advisory Free?–Selecting a Data Center Provider from 2020-06-16T21:12:31
Recently, we selected QTS as a data center provider for the CTO Advisor Hybrid Infrastructure. We ran into a practical challenge of choosing a data center from the overwhelming number of options. S...
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Public Cloud Workload Repatriation Part 2 from 2020-05-25T20:38:10
The CTO Advisor Virtual Conference Series continues with this panel of experts discussing the next level of public cloud workload repatriation. What skills and data are needed to determine if a wor...
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Public Cloud Workload Repatriation–CTO Advisor Podcast 120 from 2020-04-27T19:34:13
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 a...
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vSphere 7 and Kubernetes–CTO Advisor Episode 118 from 2020-04-01T14:56:24
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 ...
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Working From Home at Scale–CTO Advisor Episode 117 from 2020-03-24T20:05:42
A casual conversation with a 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 co...
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Coronavirus Disaster Recovery–CTO Advisor Episode 116 from 2020-03-10T03:56:40
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 operation...
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Public Cloud Repatriation–Is it real? from 2020-03-03T00:51:07
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 th...
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Why is IT Automation so Hard? from 2020-02-25T01:02:21
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 knowl...
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Dell Technologies PowerOne–Dell’s Private Cloud? from 2020-02-16T09:37:48
In this Dell Technologies sponsored podcast, Dell Marketing’s Conor Duffy, David Iovino, and Justin Jones all join the program. Dell made a big splash with Intel back in November of 2019 by announc...
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Replay–The Uber(lization) of Enterprise IT–CTO Advisor 113 from 2020-02-13T00:41:05
The conversation around if cloud vs. private data center cost has come around yet again. Instead of producing another podcast on the topic, we decided to replay a conversation from December 2018 du...
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Episode 112–The value of Managed SD-WAN from 2020-02-03T23:38:07
Episode 112 of The CTO Advisor podcast is sponsored by Velocloud by VMware. Jeff Bradbury, Senior Marketing Director at Hughes, Nick Coval, Product Director at Hughes and Craig Connors, Chief Archi...
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Introduction to DevSecOps–The CTO Advisor Episode 111 from 2020-01-28T04:52:28
Now that we all agree on the definition of DevOps /sarcasm let’s start the discussion around DevSecOps. What is DevSecOps? We are glad you asked. Because, we have Michael Fraser, co-founder of refa...
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(Replay) CTO Dose 63: Can Enterprise IT Adapt? Kelsey HighTower Interview from 2020-01-22T00:58:14
Google's Kelsey Hightower joins the podcast for a reality check for enterprise IT. Keith and Mark ask the question, "Can enterprises adapt" to the quickly changing technology landscape? Do organiza...
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Double Dose of Kubernetes From Kubecon 2019–CTO Advisor 109 from 2020-01-14T01:37:25
This is a double dose of the CTO Dose on the CTO Advisor podcast. Say that 3-times fast. Keith sits down in two separate interviews with leaders in the Kubernetes community. The first interview is ...
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Preparing the Enterprise of Kubernetes from 2019-12-29T09:25:55
I know, I know. I hate Kubernetes. Why am I talking about it so much? Because it’s a great technology to expose the challenges that most organizations face. Kubernetes was designed to host stateles...
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Introduction to Redis Labs – Episode 106 – Sponsored from 2019-12-23T22:48:23
Thanks to Redis Labs for sponsoring the CTO Dose during AWS re:Invent. Keith Townsend caught up with Redis Labs Chief Product Officer Alvin Richards. The duo talked about how Redis Labs adds value ...
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Readout of Kubecon San Diego 2019 – With Alex Ellis of OpenFaaS from 2019-12-17T03:12:17
Kubecon had over 200-sponsors. All were scanning badges for sales leads, giving away t-shirts, and had booth raffles. Kubecon felt like a traditional enterprise conference walking the show floor. H...
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Making Kubernetes Enterprise Ready – OpenShift CTO Advisor 104 from 2019-07-01T17:46:42
Director of OpenShift Strategy & CloudCast host Brian Gracely joins the podcast to talk Kubernetes in the enterprise. As a previously active member of the OpenStack community, Brian brings a un...
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Primer on Reinforcement Learning for General AI – Dr. GP Pulipaka from 2019-05-20T01:43:55
Keith caught up with Dr. GP Pulipaka during SAP Sapphire 2019. Dr. Pulipaka is an AI expert and Data Scientist with Accenture. Dr. Pulipaka introduces the concept of reinforcement learning vs. more...
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Dell Technologies World in Review from 2019-05-06T04:14:22
Nathan Avery (@Nathan_Avery) of NotYourDadsIT.com joins the program after day one of Dell Technologies World. Keith and Nathan discuss the announcements of the day as well as the impact on their re...
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Punched in the Nose Part 2 from 2019-04-08T21:30:13
Mark and Keith are joined by Matt Broberg and Luigi Danakos. The friends share stories about life surrounding IT. Just a practical conversation about surviving layoffs, job searches, and career cha...
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CTO Adovisor 100: Bare Metal Cloud from 2019-03-03T06:19:08
RackN CEO Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle), joins the CTO Advisor for episode 100!!! (Sorry Chad, we’ll get you on for a ceremonial episode 100). With the growth in interest for VMware Cloud on AWS and AW...
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CTO Advisor 099: ESXi on ARM from 2019-01-22T05:00:30
One of the advantages of Keith and Mark working for VMware is the ability to get guest working on world-class software. Today’s guest is Andrei Warkentin, Arm Enablement Architect at VMware. Andrei...
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AWS’ Uberization of Enterprise Cloud from 2018-12-04T01:44:37
Keith Townsend caught up with CloudGenera's CTO Bobby Allen (@ballen_clt) during AWS re:Invent 2018. In this wide-ranging conversation, Keith and Bobby talk about the business value of AWS as compa...
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When life punches you in the nose from 2018-10-22T08:13:46
This is a bit of a personal episode. Keith’s brother lost his wife to Cancer. Mark and Matthew Broberg (@MBBroberg) both recently lost their jobs as executives. We all talk about the impact of life...
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Current State of Technology from 2018-10-08T05:00:16
In this special CTO Dose, the women of tech talk about the current state of IT. Topics range for the impact of public cloud, diversity, and burnout. (Phoummala Schmitt @ExchangeGoddess, Leah Schoeb...
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Pivotal Container Orchestration – CTO Advisor 095 from 2018-09-10T21:27:48
The CTO Advisor podcast co-host Mark May talks with Pivotal VP James Watters. Mark asks James to help organizations understand when they need container orchestration.
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VMUG – Pivoting to Avoid Becoming Legacy – CTO Advisor 094 from 2018-08-22T05:37:49
Keith and Mark sat down with VMUG CEO Brad Tompkins to talk the future of the VMware User Group (VMUG). The VMUG membership is a great pulse of the traditional IT organization. With all the talk ab...
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Data protection and big data – CTO Advisor Podcast 093 from 2018-08-12T09:11:24
How does Big Data impact your data protection strategy? Just as important, how does your data protection strategy fit into your data management strategy. Keith has mentioned the concept that comput...
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Sponsored from 2018-08-05T08:47:20
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure sponsored a conversation to discuss the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure product. While a sponsored conversation, Keith and Mark go right at Rahul Patil, VP of Software Engin...
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Quietly Judging with Amy Lewis – CTO Advisor 091 from 2018-07-24T04:45:54
Quietly judging our way into this week’s CTO Advisor Podcast, this week’s guest is Amy Lewis of The Geek Whisperers fame. This is a dual posted podcast as it’s the first VirtualizedGeek episode as ...
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Facemelting w/Chad Sakac Pt. 2 – The CTO Advisor Podcast from 2018-07-02T08:32
In the 2nd half of the conversation, we hit it right off from the business. Chad Sakac could chose to lead another business. Why did he decide to take an individual contributor role at Pivotal. Wha...
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Facemelting w/Chad Sakac Pt.1 – The CTO Advisor Podcast 088 from 2018-06-27T23:40:39
We finally got Chad Sakac on the podcast. It only took Chad taking a role at Pivotal to get him on. As with his blog, Chad can run a little long so we split the conversation into two episodes. The ...
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The Return of Greg Ferro – Programmable ASIC – CTO Advisor 087 from 2018-06-17T07:02:54
Greg Ferro, Co-Founder of the PacketPushers, joins the podcast to talk Cisco DEVNET, The PacketPushers, and programmable ASIC.
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02:15 – Cisco DEVNET & Packer Pushers Communit...
CTO Advisor 086: Behind the scenes with Mrs. CTO Advisor from 2018-05-30T00:00:32
We've been promising to do a behind the scenes look at the CTO Advisor and let you in on the private side of the business. The CTO Advisor is a family owned endeavor with Keith and Melissa Townsend...
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