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CoreWeave's Second Trick: Making AI Experimentation Accessible
Can CoreWeave build a business beyond renting GPUs?
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When Memory Becomes the Operating Model
If the model is swappable, why does persistent agent memory still create vendor lock-in?
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Private AI Won't Be the Center of Your AI Universe. Hybrid Will.
Is hybrid AI just some models running on-prem and some in the cloud?
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Private AI Is Repeating Private Cloud's Mistake
If private AI can match the public cloud on capability and cost, why won't developers adopt it?
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Seeing the Disruption Isn't the Same as Surviving It
Does heavy AI investment mean an incumbent like Google, Salesforce, or Adobe is positioned to survive the AI transition?
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Enterprise AI Isn't a Black Box
Does a frontier model escaping a lab test mean enterprise AI can't be controlled?
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The Research Wasn't the Product. The Judgment Was.
Can you codify an expert's judgment into an agentic system so that other people can run it without the expert in the loop?
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The Models Are Good Enough. Now Who Decides?
Once several models can do the job, which one should run it and who decides?
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I Was Pricing the Box. I Should Have Priced the Bottleneck.
Should I buy cheaper GPU hardware or rent something faster?
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I Have a Quote for a $148,497 AI Desktop. That Is Not the Expensive Part.
What does a solved task actually cost, including the hardware and the models I throw away?
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The Layer2C Labs Podcast Is Live. It Only Exists Because of the AI Voice.
What is the Layer2C Labs podcast and why is it narrated by AI?
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Enterprise AI Doesn't Fail at the Model or the Data. It Fails at the Layer Nobody Names.
Where do enterprise AI projects actually fail?
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I Put AI Factory Economics on a Meter
What does a verified unit of AI work actually cost?
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Deterministic AI Is an Architecture Problem, Not a Model Problem
How do I get repeatable results out of AI agents in production?
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If you can’t get GPUs, can you use CPUs?
If I can't get GPUs, can I run AI work on CPUs I already own?
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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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I Built a Framework Because I Couldn’t Move My Own App
What did Keith find when he ran the 4+1 DAPM assessment against his own Virtual CTO Advisor app?
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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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The AI Assembly Line: Speed Without Flow
If AI-assisted coding works so well, why aren't the returns showing up on the bottom line?
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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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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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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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Who Determines Done? Why Agentic AI Needs Escalation, Not More Loops
Do agentic AI systems need better loops, or does the answer live somewhere else?
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Who Controls the Loop? A Requirements Document for Local-First Agentic AI
Where should judgment live in a local-first agentic AI system?
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AI TRiSM Readiness Assessment
How do I know if my AI governance is operational and not just aspirational?
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Closing the Loop: Google Just Validated Deterministic Code in the Loop
Did Google's TensorFlow-to-JAX migration validate the deterministic code in the loop pattern?
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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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Operationalizing AI TRiSM: A CTO Advisor Field Guide
How do you turn Gartner's AI TRiSM from approval language into an operating reality?
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The Industry Is Watching GPU Prices. Google Just Moved the Fight to the Judgment Layer.
If Google Cloud Next was all remixes and no new products, why did it matter?
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Auditable Authority: When AI Can Advise, and Who Should Decide
Where should decision authority sit when AI enters an enterprise workflow?
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I Just Wanted Endpoints
Why can't I just get inference endpoints from my own AI hardware?
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Layer 1A Is Table Stakes. The Real AI Infrastructure Question Is Above It.
If every storage vendor passes the Layer 1A checklist, what should I actually evaluate?
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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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Case Study: Decision Authority Drift in an AI-Assisted Writing Workflow
What happens when an AI model gets more capable but its authority boundaries don't change?
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You Know What’s Dumb? Using AI When It’s Not Needed.
When is using AI actually the wrong architectural call?
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You Don’t Start Your AI Journey With Nvidia
Should we start our enterprise AI buildout with Nvidia GPUs?
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What a Governed AI System Actually Looks Like
What does a governed AI system actually look like in production?
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Why Most AI Architectures Collapse Under Governance
Why do AI systems that work in demos collapse the moment governance requirements show up?
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The Missing Control Layer in AI Systems
Where do you actually put control in an AI system?
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AI Doesn’t Fail in the Demo – It Fails the First Time You Have to Trust It
If the AI demo works, why does the project stall before production?
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When Developer Workflow Discipline Isn’t Enough
Can developer workflow discipline control enterprise AI costs, or does that control belong to platform engineering?
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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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Your Fourth Cloud for AI: Platform or Project?
Is IBM Fusion a real Fourth Cloud platform for AI, or am I buying a consulting project?
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Bigger Models Won’t Fix Your AI Architecture
Will a bigger model fix my unreliable AI system?
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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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Fourth Cloud Reality Check (Permission First)
Can my team implement a true Fourth Cloud today?
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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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Hybrid AI Is Inevitable. Workflow Discipline Is Not.
Why do two teams with the same AI models and vendors end up with radically different costs?
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The Decision Authority Placement Model (DAPM)
Why do enterprises keep hitting the same failures every time they automate?
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Before You Build a Private Cloud, Ask This One Question
What's the one question to ask before building a private cloud?
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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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The Developer Speed vs. The Enterprise Brake: Merging the a16z Stack with the 4+1 Model
Should we standardize on the a16z LLM app stack or the 4+1 model for enterprise AI?
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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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AWS vs. NVIDIA DGX: The Real Platform Divide
Should I build my AI platform on NVIDIA DGX or consume AWS's managed stack?
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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 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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Layer 2C Validated: How Articul8’s Agentic Platform Proves the Intelligence Reasoning Plane
How did Articul8 validate the Layer 2C reasoning plane in the 4+1 model?
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The CTO Advisor 4+1 Layer AI Infrastructure Model
What is the CTO Advisor 4+1 Layer AI Infrastructure Model, and why does Layer 2C matter?
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The Operational Cost of AI: When Speed Becomes a Liability
When does chasing faster AI inference stop paying off?
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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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A Vector DB Is a Vector DB, Right?
Does it matter which vector database I use for my RAG pipeline?
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When Small Isn’t Simple: Lessons from Deploying Granite 13B on IBM Cloud
Are smaller LLMs like Granite 13B just cheaper drop-in replacements for large models?
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You’re Holding It Wrong: Why We’re Missing AI’s Value
Why are most organizations missing AI's value?
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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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What Exactly is “Production Ready” in 2025?
What does "production ready" actually mean in 2025?
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Five Vibe-Coding Lessons for the Enterprise
What can enterprise IT learn from a creator's vibe-coding experiment?
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Evolving the Virtual CTO Advisor: From Fixed-Cost Experiment to Cloud-Efficient Architecture
Why did the Virtual CTO Advisor's cloud bill blow up, and what fixed it?
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What I Learned from Building a RAG-Based AI on My Own Work — And the Architectural Crossroads It Revealed
Is simple RAG enough to build a trustworthy enterprise AI assistant?
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The Emperor’s New GPT: Why Your “Custom AI” Is a Demo, Not a Product
Can I put an OpenAI Custom GPT into production as an enterprise knowledge base?
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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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The Fourth Cloud Landscape: Understanding the Approaches
What is the Fourth Cloud, and how are the vendors approaching it differently?
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Agentic AI Is Everything — But Should You Let Someone Else Own It?
Should I let a vendor own my agentic AI platform?
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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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The AI Delivery Gap: Why Enterprise Platforms Are Failing Platform Teams
Why can't my developers self-serve AI capabilities the way they do databases and APIs?
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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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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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From Coder to Conductor: The Evolving Role of Developers in the Age of AI
How is AI actually changing the developer's role?
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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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Building the CTO Signal Scanner: When Python Was Enough — Until It Wasn’t
When is a plain Python and Flask stack enough for an internal tool?
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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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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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87% Faster Code Delivery with AI? Here’s What They’re Not Telling You
Are the productivity gains vendors claim for AI coding assistants real?
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Gemini Flash: Google’s AI Edge Play Delivers for Security-Conscious and Latency-Driven Enterprises
What does Gemini Flash on Google Distributed Cloud offer security-conscious enterprises?
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Does a 10M Token Context Window Kill the Need for RAG? Not Even Close
Does a 10M token context window kill the need for RAG?
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The AI Rewrite Fantasy: Why Replacing Your IT Staff with AI Is Still a Mirage
Can I use AI to replace my IT staff and rewrite our legacy applications on the cheap?
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Why Your AI Talent Doesn’t Want to Shovel: Blackwell, H100s, and the Cost of Enterprise Inertia
Why doesn't my expensive AI talent want to work on the H100 cluster we just bought?
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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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AI: You’re Holding it Wrong
Why isn't AI delivering the productivity gains my organization expected?
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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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The Evolution of Infrastructure in the Cloud Era
How are cloud abstraction layers changing what infrastructure teams actually do?
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Capital One’s Masterclass in Serverless Observability: Insights from AWS re:Invent 2024
What can enterprises learn from Capital One's approach to serverless observability?
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Architecting for Agentic AI – Moving from Simple Automation to Autonomous Decision-Making
How should enterprises architect for agentic AI instead of just enabling vendor AI features?
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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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Embracing the Cloud: How DB2 on RDS Revolutionizes Enterprise Application Migration
What does DB2 on Amazon RDS mean for enterprises with legacy DB2 applications?
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VMware Cross-Cloud: Is it a viable path post Broadcom?
Was VMware Cross-Cloud a viable path after the Broadcom acquisition?
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Navigating Multiple Observability Tools: Mezmo’s Goal of Simplifying the Journey
Can I run multiple observability tools without the data fragmentation and lock-in headaches?
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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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Hashicorp – What CIO’s Need to Understand
What do CIOs need to understand about HashiCorp beyond Terraform?
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Is AWS Leading Hybrid IT Storage?
Is AWS leading hybrid IT storage?
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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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Using Machine Language to Improve AWS Operations
Can AWS DevOpsGuru replace hiring a Site Reliability Engineer?
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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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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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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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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?
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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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1986 Tandy 1000 vs. 2019 Macbook Pro
What did Keith learn returning to programming after 30 years away from it?
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The Demise of the Platform Team – Let’s Blame OpenStack
Why did our platform team fail, and what should its charter be now?
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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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Cloud Migration Rookie Mistakes – Virtual IP Addressing
How do I know if my application will hit network problems when I migrate it to the public cloud?
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Intelligent ERP – Use Case
What does an Intelligent ERP actually do for a business?
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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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When Scale isn’t Infinite
Did Azure's COVID-19 capacity constraints prove enterprises need multi-cloud for vendor diversity?
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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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Why Consider a Managed Service Provider of SD-WAN
If SD-WAN is so simple, why would I pay a managed service provider to run it?
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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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Kubernetes and Traffic Lights
What do dynamic traffic lights teach us about Kubernetes?
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Kubecon 2019: Kubernetes and Enterprise IT Collide
After KubeCon 2019, does my enterprise actually need Kubernetes?
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Microsoft Ignite 2019 Readout
What actually mattered at Microsoft Ignite 2019?
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Talented People Create Data Gravity
Why is talent heavier than data, and what does that mean for my data strategy?
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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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Master’s Lesson in IT Management
What can IT leaders learn from the University of Leicester's 20PB backup storage migration?
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Commvault Breaking the Storage Laws
Why does Commvault's Hedvig acquisition matter?
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VMware’s Cloud in 300-words
Can VMware's public cloud strategy be explained in 300 words or less?
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Why Do I Hate Kubernetes so Much?
Why did Keith say he hated Kubernetes in 2019?
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When CPU’s Reach $0
What happens to the industry if CPU costs really drop to zero, as Andreessen Horowitz predicted?
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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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The Campus and Cloud-First
How does a cloud-first strategy change my campus network design and security?
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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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Unifying Internet Carriers
How do I load balance and actually use the full bandwidth of two internet circuits from different carriers?
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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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Don’t Waste Time Learning Kubernetes
Should a CTO or enterprise architect learn to install and configure Kubernetes?
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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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Understanding VMware Cloud on <Insert Here>
What's the difference between VMware Cloud on AWS and the VMware offerings on Azure, Google, and other clouds?
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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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Intel Answering SAP HANA’s Tough Questions
What does Intel DC Persistent Memory mean for SAP HANA deployments?
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SaaS and Multi-Cloud
Do SaaS applications count as part of my multi-cloud strategy?
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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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Are CIO’s Missing the Metadata Bus?
Can metadata cut the time data scientists waste normalizing data?
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Leveraging Backup to Advance Your Decision Making
Can I run analytics or machine learning directly on my backup data?
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IT Reality Check
Should I learn to code, chase certifications, or automate my data center to keep up with digital transformation?
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Hybrid IT Data Protection Maturity
Why are backup companies like Rubrik worth billions?
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Understanding Multi-Cloud for the non-IT Executive
What does a non-IT executive need to understand about multi-cloud?
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Modern Data Protection Summary
What separates modern data protection from traditional backup?
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The ever expanding scope of Infrastructure
Does public cloud make my data center infrastructure obsolete?
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Why I chose to go work for VMware
Why did Keith choose to join VMware in 2018?
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Is Nutanix a Cloud Company?
Is Nutanix a Cloud Company?
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Configuration Management – Four steps to getting it under control
My data is replicated to a DR site, so why do I still need configuration management?
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Moving SAP and other legacy apps to the cloud
Does it make sense to move SAP and other legacy apps to the public cloud?
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Rubrik – A metadata company in backup company’s clothing
Is Rubrik just another backup company?
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Webinar – Disaster recovery in the era of Public Cloud
How does public cloud change the economics of disaster recovery?
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An update on Oracle’s Cloud
Who was Oracle's cloud actually built for in 2018?
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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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The what, who and when of BlockChain – Webinar
What did the CTO Advisor blockchain webinar cover for executives?
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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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Backup is Dead! [Webinar]
Why did every backup vendor reposition around data management in 2017?
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Re-play of Severless Webinar
What actually makes a platform serverless?
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Understanding Serverless Computing
What is serverless computing, and where does it actually save money?
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Current state of TLS encryption and data loss protection
Can enterprises still inspect TLS-encrypted traffic for data loss protection?
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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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CTO Advisor 063: Can enterprise IT adapt? w/Kelsey Hightower
Can enterprise IT adapt to the quickly changing technology landscape?
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Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Ixia
If DLP tools are everywhere, why do breaches like Equifax still happen?
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Techfield Day 15 Preview: DataCore
Why does the market need another virtual SAN vendor like DataCore?
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Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Skyport Systems
What's the catch with Skyport Systems' zero-trust HCI approach?
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Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Actifio
Can Actifio's copy-data technology overcome enterprise IT silos?
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Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Scale Computing
Can Scale Computing move from SMB HCI into the enterprise?
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Tread carefully before you lift and shift to the Cloud
Should I lift and shift my workloads to the cloud?
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Embracing digital transformation isn’t enough
Does embracing digital transformation protect my company from disruption?
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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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Is it time for virtual switch abstraction to fade?
Do we still need the virtual switch abstraction in network virtualization?
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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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Network as a Service provider TeloIP #NFD15
With 40+ SD-WAN vendors in the market, what made TELoIP different?
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[Video] Gigamon Network Field Day 15 Preview
What is Keith Townsend's take on "[Video] Gigamon Network Field Day 15 Preview"?
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IP Infusion: Network Field Day 15 Preview
What did Keith want IP Infusion to prove at Network Field Day 15?
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Ah… NSX, We Meet Again. #NFD15
What did Keith want to see from VMware's NSX at Network Field Day 15?
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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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After HPE, VMware and Cisco, why should I trust Google Compute Engine?
After watching HPE, VMware, and Cisco fumble their cloud strategies, why should I trust Google Compute Engine for enterprise cloud?
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25Gbps vs. 40Gbps Ethernet
Should I step up from 10 Gbps Ethernet to 25 Gbps or 40 Gbps?
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AWS Snowball Edge doesn’t compete with Nutanix but…
Does AWS Snowball Edge actually compete with Nutanix and other HCI platforms?
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Don’t be quick to build or migrate to cloud
Should CIOs skip private cloud and move everything to public cloud?
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Container networking is hard?
Is container networking actually a hard problem?
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VMware – Michael Dell’s big bet on Hybrid Cloud
Was Michael Dell really going to leave VMware alone after the EMC acquisition?
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Clouding is Risky
Can cloud consultants reliably guide my enterprise's move to public cloud?
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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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AWS Security Fundamentals
Where can I get a practical introduction to AWS security concepts like IAM, S3 encryption, and CloudTrail?
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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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6 interview questions for a Enterprise Architect
What should I ask when interviewing an enterprise architect candidate?
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No single vendor offers a complete Software Defined vision
Can any single vendor deliver a complete software-defined data center?
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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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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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What’s not boring about VMware and Dell
What was the most interesting part of Dell's acquisition of EMC?
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What’s not boring about HPE’s real hyperconverged strategy
What was HPE's real hyperconverged strategy in 2016?
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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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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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Azure Service Fabric – Microsoft’s container management solution
What's Microsoft's container orchestration play for Windows Server 2016?
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Containers vs. Virtual Machines: What you Need to Know
What did Keith cover in his containers vs. virtual machines conversation with HPE and Docker at HP Discover 2015?
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Is Cisco All in on Hyper-converged?
Is Cisco all in on hyper-converged infrastructure with its SpringPath partnership?
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Understanding VMware’s many Cloud Strategies
How was the 2016 IBM/VMware partnership different from vCloud Air and the vCloud partner network?
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Hyper-Converged Scale Out vs. Scale Up
Can I scale up individual nodes in a hyper-converged cluster, or do I have to scale out?
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Hyper-converge Infrastructure Support Considerations – CTO Coffee Chat
What's the support advantage of hyper-converged infrastructure?
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Devops, Docker and Data Center Telemetry – CTOCoffeeChat
What is Keith Townsend's take on "Devops, Docker and Data Center Telemetry – CTOCoffeeChat"?
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What exactly is “production ready”
What does "production ready" actually mean when evaluating a product?
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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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Azure Stack: Microsoft’s chance to show if Private-Cloud is a thing
Will Azure Stack prove whether private cloud is a real market?
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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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Nearing the end of the traditional SAN
Is it time to ditch the traditional storage array?
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Simplifying Private Cloud – Easier said…
Is there a simpler way to stand up a private cloud than the heavyweight EMC and HPE offerings?
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The 5 Attributes of Private Cloud
What makes an infrastructure an actual private cloud?
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Enterprise IT Trends 2015
What enterprise IT trends actually mattered in 2015?
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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?
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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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An argument for DevOps
How do I make the case for DevOps in an enterprise that isn't Netflix?
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Why are HPUX, Solaris and Mainframes still a thing?
Why are HPUX, Solaris, and mainframes still a thing in enterprise data centers?
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Enterprise Architect – More than a Technology Job
Is enterprise architecture just a technology job?
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High-level definition of NFV
What is NFV, and why should an enterprise infrastructure leader care?
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Tech Reckoning – The vBrownBag Unconference
What happens to my IT career when my employer outsources to the cloud?
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Gartner Inc. Interview Experience
What was it like for Keith to interview for a Gartner analyst role in 2014?
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Cloud – A C-Level Definition
What does 'cloud' actually mean when a business leader asks me for it?
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A relationship with a strong systems integrator is the key to success
Should I lean on a systems integrator to fill my next-generation data center talent gap?
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Private vs. Public Cloud is all about Friction
Why do my departments keep running to public cloud instead of using our private cloud?
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The CTO Whisperer
What is The CTO Advisor, and how is it different from VirtualizedGeek.com?