The CTO Advisor

The CTO Advisor

A conversation geared toward the CTO or Infrastructure Architect. Shows topics focus on future technologies and keeping today's infrastructure in-line with business requirements.

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    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 from VMware, focusing on the launch of VCF 9 and what it means for developers, customers, and the broader ecosystem. Key topics include: Steven’s impressions of [...]

  2. 20 AUG

    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: the path to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and beyond to superintelligence. Brian brings his unique lens as a technologist [...]

  3. 2 APR

    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 live during GTC week in San Jose — but not at GTC. The duo dive deep into the evolution of network operations and why [...]

  4. 26 MAR

    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 changing—fast. In this episode of The CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend sits down with Luke Norris, CEO of Kamiwaza, just steps from #NvidiaGTC, to unpack what planned obsolescence really means in a world of $100K GPUs with 18-month lifespans. 🔥 In this episode, we [...]

  5. 5 MAR

    AI Assisted App Development with AWS’ Bryan Liles

    Episode Summary:In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend welcomes back Bryan Liles—a veteran developer and cloud expert—to discuss AI-assisted application development. The conversation covers how AI tools are transforming coding practices, from automating mundane tasks like converting data types and generating tests to speeding up complex problem-solving. Bryan shares his insights on [...]

  6. 29 JAN

    Deepseek’s Impact on Your AI Strategy

    In this episode, Keith Townsend is joined by Dion Hinchcliffe—VP and Practice Lead for The Futurum Group’s CIO practice—to explore the monumental impact of DeepSeek, a new large language model (LLM) that’s challenging AI industry norms. They discuss the astonishing claims surrounding DeepSeek’s minimal training costs, its potential to run on everyday hardware at ChatGPT-level [...]

  7. AI Trends for 2025: Productivity, Integration, and Agentic AI

    18/12/2024

    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 recent tech events and vendor shows, the discussion centers on the evolution of AI from a standalone capability to [...]

  8. 13/11/2024

    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-user applications to web browsers. Colin also discusses the promising aspects of server-side Web Assembly and highlights areas that need further development. [...]

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A conversation geared toward the CTO or Infrastructure Architect. Shows topics focus on future technologies and keeping today's infrastructure in-line with business requirements.

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  • Creator
    The CTO Advisor
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2025
  • Episodes
    52
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