The archive
Articles
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Juniper powered by MIST AI – This Stuff is Hard
Does Juniper's Mist AI actually deliver on the AIOps promise?
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The CTO Advisor Road Trip Jun 1 to Sep 3
Why did the CTO Advisor take a 9,000-mile Airstream road trip in the summer of 2021?
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Whitepaper on Containers
Where can a CTO get an architect-level introduction to containers and Kubernetes?
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On-Premises vs. Public Cloud Telemetry
Can you get on-premises-style processor telemetry from public cloud VM instances?
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Who are you Building the Thing For?
Why does an IT project that impresses the CEO still get rated poorly by other stakeholders?
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Grading My First Independent Advisory Project
How did your first independent advisory project hold up five years later?
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Wrong Questions Only – What’s the Best Kubernetes Distro?
What's the best Kubernetes distribution for my enterprise?
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Microsoft is VMware’s Biggest Threat
Why is Microsoft, not the public cloud generally, VMware's biggest threat?
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VMware Public Cloud Enables Infrastructure as Code
Is VMware Cloud on AWS just cloud washing, or does it enable real infrastructure as code?
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Can Managed Service Providers Cloud?
Should I hand my public cloud operations to a managed service provider?
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What’s the future of the data center? I don’t know!
What's the future of the traditional data center control plane?
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Developer Originated SDN?
Developer Originated SDN?
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10 Print “What’s Next?”
How did Keith describe the CTO Advisor's business pivot point in 2020?
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Serverless Functions on vSphere?
Does VMware really have a serverless functions platform, and should I run it in production?
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Do I Still Hate Kubernetes as Much?
Do you still hate Kubernetes a year after writing 'Why Do I Hate Kubernetes so Much'?
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We’ll Never Buy Another Server
Is it worth building your own SDDC on used servers instead of buying a pre-engineered HCI platform?
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Will the DPU kill the Storage Array?
Will DPU-based storage like Nebulon's kill the traditional storage array?
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This ain’t ESXi on a SmartNIC
Was VMware's Project Monterey just ESXi running on a SmartNIC?
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Connecting HPE’s The Machine to VMware Cloud Foundation
What did VMware's Project Monterey SmartNIC announcement mean for my data center in 2020?
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The Deployment of the CTO Advisor Hybrid Infrastructure
What were the phases of the CTO Advisor Hybrid Infrastructure project?