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Business
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AI Infrastructure: The Tradeoffs Behind These 12 Vendor Platforms
How do I see the tradeoffs behind the major AI infrastructure platforms before I buy one?
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Checking the CTO Advisor Track Record
Can The CTO Advisor's frameworks be verified against a public track record?
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544 Enterprises. One Number That Matters: 22.8%
Why are only 22.8% of enterprise AI projects meeting their ROI objectives?
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The Pentagon–Anthropic Standoff Is the First National-Scale DAPM Conflict. Here’s What Enterprises Should Learn.
What should enterprises learn from the Pentagon-Anthropic standoff?
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From AI Factory Metaphor to CIO-Grade Economics
How should a CIO measure the true TCO of an AI investment?
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The Enterprise Reasoning Plane: Why Enterprise AI Keeps Failing in Production
Why does enterprise AI keep failing in production if the models are good enough?
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The Decision Authority Placement Model (DAPM, Dap-eem)
Why do enterprises keep hitting the same failures every time they automate?
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Six Months Independent: What AI Actually Made Possible
What did Keith learn in his first six months running The CTO Advisor independently with AI tooling?
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You Don’t Buy an “AI Platform”—You Buy Layers Introducing the 4+1 AI Platform RFP Framework (Open Edition)
How do I evaluate vendors that all claim to sell an "AI platform"?
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Why Migrating from VMware Isn’t as Simple as Changing Hypervisors
Is migrating off VMware just a matter of swapping hypervisors?
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The Scaling Penalty: Why Your AI Development Environment Becomes a Bottleneck
How do I know if my AI development hardware will become a bottleneck as models grow?
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Some Technologies Just Don’t Scale Down
Do enterprises really need trillion-parameter foundation models, or are smaller domain-specific models a better fit?
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You Want to Migrate from VMware? Ask Your Architecture Review Board First
Should cost drive our decision to migrate off VMware?
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The Forklift vs. The Data Center Refresh: Why AI Changes the Infrastructure ROI Equation
How do I win the budget argument for a data center refresh when the CFO would rather buy forklifts?
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Redefining the Fundamentals: What Does It Mean to Build in the Modern Enterprise?
Do my engineers still need to understand every layer of the stack to build in the modern enterprise?
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4 Steps to Avoiding Cloud Repatriation
How do I cut cloud costs without repatriating workloads back to the data center?
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Told “No” to Technical Transformation – What’s Next
As a CTO, what do I do after the business tells me no on a critical technical transformation?
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Leading Successful Application Rationalization Projects – It’s the Messenger
Who should lead an application rationalization project, IT or the business?
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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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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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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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How Much Did our VMware Cloud Study Cost? – Running POCs
How much does a serious proof of concept actually cost to run?
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The Myth of M & A and Multi-Cloud
Doesn't heavy M&A activity force my company into a multi-cloud strategy?
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Intelligent ERP – Use Case
What does an Intelligent ERP actually do for a business?
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Oracle – The new Old HPE?
Why did Oracle shut down Ravello Systems, and what did it say about Oracle in 2019?
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2019 – The Year it all Changed for VMware
Why was 2019 the year it all changed for VMware?
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VMware Cloud on AWS: Business Outcomes
What business outcome does VMware Cloud on AWS deliver for an SAP shop stuck in legacy provisioning cycles?
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Embracing digital transformation isn’t enough
Does embracing digital transformation protect my company from disruption?
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Reaction to Intel & VMware 2016 Q1 fiscal results
What stood out in Intel's and VMware's Q1 2016 fiscal results?
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The impact of business disruption on IT: The divestiture
My business unit is being spun out. Where do I start as an IT leader?
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Competing with tech vendors for the best and brightest
How do I keep my best engineers from leaving for tech vendor jobs?
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Concerns over VMware layoffs
What is Keith Townsend's take on "Concerns over VMware layoffs"?
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Do Big 4 consultants have deep tech skill?
Do Big 4 consultants actually have deep technical skill?
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Exit Strategies for Leaving a Big 4
What are my exit options after working at a Big 4?
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Enterprise IT Trends 2015
What enterprise IT trends actually mattered in 2015?
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How I use LinkedIn
Is LinkedIn worth my time if I'm not job hunting?
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Creating a business case for technology projects
How do I build a business case that actually gets my technology project funded?
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The CTO Whisperer
What is The CTO Advisor, and how is it different from VirtualizedGeek.com?