The archive
Articles
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AWS – The Lotus Notes of Public Cloud
Why call AWS the Lotus Notes of public cloud?
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Should You Trust Zero Trust?
Is Zero Trust worth pursuing, or is it just vendor hype?
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3 Things to Consider for Multicloud Data
What should I be considering for multicloud data management?
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AMD vs. Intel – Which is better for the Data Center?
AMD or Intel, which x86 platform is better for the data center?
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Juniper Apstra Proof of Concept
Did Juniper Apstra hold up in a real-world proof of concept?
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The CTO Advisor Virtual Seminar
What was the CTO Advisor Virtual Seminar in July 2022 about?
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VMware Broadcom – Employees Customers and Partners What’s Next?
What should VMware employees, customers, and partners have done when Broadcom announced the acquisition in 2022?
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I Broke The Data Center – DNS
What broke when the CTO Advisor migrated VMs from vSAN to a dedicated storage array?
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Cloud Adjacent vs. Native Cloud Services
Should I pick a native cloud service like FSx for ONTAP or a cloud adjacent one like VMware Cloud on AWS?
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Solving the Cloud Skills Shortage
Why did AWS partner with NetApp to deliver FSx for ONTAP?
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Leveraging 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® in Hyperscale Cloud Providers
How can you experiment with Intel Ice Lake features like SGX without buying new data center hardware?
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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?