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Data Centers
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They Shipped Buggy Code Faster. AIOps Is About to Do It Again.
Is buying AIOps tools without changing our operating model going to repeat the DevOps mistake?
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Encode the Why, Not the Step
Why doesn't writing better documentation keep an AI agent from ignoring your process?
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Every vendor sells an “AI Platform.” None of them sells a complete one.
Can I buy a complete enterprise AI platform from a single vendor?
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The Fourth Cloud Vendor Map Is Live
What does the Fourth Cloud vendor map at cloud.layer2c.com actually measure?
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From Migration Factory to Migration Control Plane
How do you safely use LLMs to scale cloud migration across a large application estate?
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Hybrid Is Not a Place: The AI Architecture Google and Dell Both Pointed Toward
Should I run agentic coding on cheap cloud models like Gemini Flash or on-prem hardware like Dell's?
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One Problem, Five Frameworks: Why Enterprise AI Stalls — and How to Fix It
Why does enterprise AI stall between pilot and production?
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The VMware Migration Everyone’s Getting Wrong: Why Your 6-Month Project Just Became 24 Months
Why did our 6-month VMware migration plan turn into 18 to 24 months?
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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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When My $4K DGX Spark Arrived, It Revealed What the Cloud Had Been Hiding
Why did an app that ran fine in the cloud fail on my $4K DGX Spark?
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The Operational Cost of AI: Quantifying the Hidden Friction of GPU Adoption
What does GPU adoption really cost beyond the hardware price?
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Part 1: How to Build the Fourth Cloud MVP — The Four Non-Negotiable Pillars
What do I actually need to build first for a Fourth Cloud minimum viable platform?
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Thinking About VMware Alternatives?
What's the real alternative to VMware after the Broadcom acquisition?
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AWS EVS: A Step Toward VCF Everywhere
Is AWS EVS a good escape hatch from Broadcom's VMware changes?
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Navigating the Rise of LLM-Powered Point Tools: What Every CTO Needs to Know
Should CTOs adopt LLM-powered point tools like networking co-pilots, or wait for a unified AI platform?
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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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HPE + Juniper: Apstra, Intent, and the Battle for the Next-Gen Data Center
What does HPE's Juniper acquisition mean for the next-gen data center?
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Unlocking On-Prem Value: Key Insights from CxO Conversations & The Rise of the Fourth Cloud
What is the Fourth Cloud, and why are CTOs re-evaluating on-prem infrastructure?
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Forget the AI Factory. The Real Battle Is Hybrid AI Infrastructure
Do I need an AI Factory full of H100s to run enterprise AI?
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A CTO’s Guide to Migrating from VMware
What does it actually take to migrate off VMware to HPE's VM Reset offer?
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VMware Isn’t Broken — So Why Fix It?
If VMware isn't broken, why would large customers leave it?
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Enterprise Doesn’t Move at the Speed of Keynotes: Why Grace Hopper Still Matters
Should enterprises dump Grace Hopper now that Blackwell is shipping?
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The Token Economy: The Hybrid Approach to AI Infrastructure?
Should we pre-purchase large on-prem AI inference clusters, or is there a more flexible path?
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Understanding Private Cloud, Hybrid Infrastructure, Multi-Cloud, and Distributed Cloud: A Comprehensive Framework
What's the difference between private cloud, hybrid infrastructure, multi-cloud, and distributed cloud?
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When to Consider Building a Private Cloud: A Pragmatic Perspective
When does building a private cloud actually make sense?
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Exploring Sovereign Cloud Options: A Introduction for IT Infrastructure Decision-Makers
Which sovereign cloud options were worth evaluating in 2024?
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Private Data Centers vs. Public Cloud: Can Apstra Automation Bridge the Gap?
Can Apstra automation make my private data center operate like the public cloud?
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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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Returning to the Data Center: 4 Essential Skills for Repatriating Your Workloads
What skills does my team need before repatriating workloads from the public cloud?
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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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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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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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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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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?
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A Comparison of the VMware Cloud Solutions
Which VMware cloud solution won your 2020 comparison of VMC on AWS, Google VMware Engine, and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution?
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The Edge vs. IT
Why doesn't traditional IT management work for edge computing?
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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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Cloud Application Mobility – The Hard Way
How do I pull a workload back from the public cloud to my on-premises data center?
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Securing the Data Center from Serverless Functions
How do I protect a data center application from a rogue AWS Lambda function when there's no headend IP to firewall?
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Welcome Intel as the Sponsor of The CTO Advisor Hybrid Infrastructure
Who sponsored the CTO Advisor Hybrid Infrastructure build-out in 2020?
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Good Content 2-24-2020
What was worth reading in enterprise IT the week of February 24, 2020?
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The CTO Advisor’s Cloud Journey
Why did The CTO Advisor decide to build its own data center in 2020?
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Microsoft Ignite 2019 Readout
What actually mattered at Microsoft Ignite 2019?
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Commvault Metallic and AWS RDS on vSphere – The Future of IT
What do Commvault Metallic and AWS RDS on vSphere say about where enterprise IT is headed?
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The A to Z of the HPE and VMware Partnership
Where did the HPE and VMware partnership stand in 2019 with Dell owning a majority of VMware?
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Introducing the CTO Advisor Newsletter
What did the CTO Advisor newsletter cover when it launched in 2019?
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Google Cloud Anthos Migrate – The Future of Cloud Lift & Shift?
Could Anthos Migrate give Google an edge over AWS and Azure for lift and shift?
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CTO Dose Live – Dell Technologies World
What was CTO Dose Live at Dell Technologies World 2019?
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Google Anthos Migrate vs. Complexity
Is Google Anthos Migrate worth the added operational complexity?
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Hybrid isn’t a Place – It’s an Operating Model
If cloud is an operating model and not a place, what does that make hybrid?
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HCI/Not HCI – It doesn’t matter
Does it matter whether a solution is true HCI or just converged infrastructure?
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Why are box sellers at AWS re:Invent with Cohesity
Why was a backup company like Cohesity at AWS re:Invent?
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Datrium Build Day & CTO Daily Dose
What was Keith looking to learn from the Datrium vBrownBag Build Day?
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Inefficiencies of large systems
Why do third parties like DataCore find performance Microsoft leaves on the table between Windows Server and SQL Server?
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NVMe to enable truly composable infrastructure?
How does NVMe get us to truly composable infrastructure?
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VMworld 2017 preview: Current state of VMware
Was VMware still relevant heading into VMworld 2017?
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HPE, VMware, Cisco & Dell need to change the conversation
Why did the legacy IT vendors keep losing to AWS and Google in the cloud?
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HPE knocks the first domino in HCI consolidation
Can HCI survive as a standalone product category, or is it just a feature of the big vendors' portfolios?
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Big data and IoT in the DC
How does AWS Snowball Edge fit big data and IoT collection in the data center?
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Are you using Public Cloud as an Expensive Data Center?
How do I know if my organization has truly adopted public cloud or is just paying for expensive hosting?
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Nutanix on Cisco UCS
Did Nutanix validating its software on Cisco UCS mean the two companies had an OEM deal?
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Why VMworld is still relevant – Hybrid Infrastructure
If public cloud is taking over, why was VMworld still worth attending in 2016?
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All Public Cloud roads lead to Hybrid Infrastructure
Should my enterprise go all-in on public cloud, or does hybrid infrastructure win out?
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EMCWORLD 2016 in Review: Bi-Modal is a thing?
What did the final EMCWORLD in 2016 say about where EMC and its customers stood?
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Don’t waste money on automation before looking at processes
Should I invest in automation tools before fixing my IT processes?
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What’s not boring about VMware and Dell
What was the most interesting part of Dell's acquisition of EMC?
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Live Blogging HPE Tech Day – Virtual Private Infrastructre
What did Keith take away from HPE's composable infrastructure pitch at the 2016 HPE Tech Day?
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5 Key Considerations for the NexGen Data Center
What should I be preparing for in the next-generation data center?
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Think (about ITSM) before undertaking IT automation
Should I automate IT operations before fixing service management?
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Has VMware become irrelevant?
Has VMware become irrelevant in the cloud era?