The CTO Advisor
Episodes
Your Data Is Getting Dirtier While We Talk — UnicornIQ’s Answer to AI’s Unsolvable Problem
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone says clean your data before you invest in AI. The problem is, your data is getting dirty faster than you can clean it. In this episode, Keith...
AI in the Data Center: When Faster Isn’t Better
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
AI is changing the data center—but not always in the ways enterprises expect. In this episode, Keith Townsend is joined by Intel’s Lynn Comp for P...
Right-Sizing AI, Rationalizing Virtualization, and Becoming an Infrastructure Arbiter — with Melissa Palmer
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary Enterprise leaders are facing two equally hard problems at the same time: deciding what to do next with virtualization in the post-VMw...
The VMware Reckoning: Broadcom, AI, and the Future of Enterprise Infrastructure
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Enterprise IT didn’t plan for this problem—but now it has to solve it. In this episode of The CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend sits down with L...
Outrunning Ageism and Building a Second Career
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend sits down with Betsy Tong, founder of Authority Architect, to explore how seasoned professi...
VMware Explore 2025: VCF 9, Developer Tribes, and the Future of Private Cloud – with Steven Dickens
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Keith Townsend welcomes back Steven Dickens, founder of Hyperframe Research, for a candid conversation following VMware Explore 2025....
AGI, Superintelligence, and the Race for Compute with Brian Wang
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
📝 Show Notes: On this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith sits down with independent analyst Brian Wang of Next Big Future to unpack one of t...
Modernizing Network Ops in a Post-Cowboy World – CTO Advisor Podcast with Guest Scott Robohn
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special CTO Advisor Podcast episode, Keith Townsend sits down with Scott Robohn, founder of Tech Sales Craft and co-founder of the Network Aut...
From CapEx Chaos to AI Scale: Kamiwaza CEO Luke Norris on the Future of Enterprise AI Infrastructure
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
📄 Episode Summary / Show Notes: The AI infrastructure game is changing—fast. In this episode of The CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend sits down...
AI Assisted App Development with AWS’ Bryan Liles
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Summary:In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend welcomes back Bryan Liles—a veteran developer and cloud expert—to discu...
Deepseek’s Impact on Your AI Strategy
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Keith Townsend is joined by Dion Hinchcliffe—VP and Practice Lead for The Futurum Group’s CIO practice—to explore the monumenta...
AI Trends for 2025: Productivity, Integration, and Agentic AI
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, recorded on December 18, 2024, Keith looks back on the major tech trends that are set to shape the landsca...
Replay-Server-side Web Assembly with Adobe’s Colin Murphy
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After meeting at Kubecon, Keith gets in touch with Colin Murphy, a Senior Software Engineer at Adobe Systems, to discuss Web Assembly. They delve into...
Replay-GitBOM. It’s not Git or SBOM
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Keith, Aeva Black (@aevavoom), and returning guest Ed Warnicke (@edwarnicke) as they dive into the world of GitBOM. It’s not a Git tool, nor is...
Coding Without Code: A Journey in Low-code/No-Code Development
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the CTO Advisor podcast, host Keith Townsend welcomes Delainy Dalton, a No-Code Developer in the healthcare insurance sector. Delai...
2022: In Conversation with Kelsey Hightower
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this never-published recording, Keith Townsend, Chief Technology Advisor, talks with Kelsey Hightower, fresh off his then promotion to Google Disti...
Building and Managing Private Clouds: OpenStack, Kubernetes, and the VMware Conundrum
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend and guest Jason Benedicic dive deep into the challenges and opportunities surrounding priva...
Punched in the Nose Part 2 (Replay)
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark and Keith welcome Matt Broberg and Luigi Danakos for a candid chat about the IT industry. Together, they explore real-life experiences with na...
Modernizing Legacy Applications for the Cloud: Lessons from Granite
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Keith Townsend and Alastair Cook, both seasoned CTO advisors at the Futurum Group, delve into the challenges and strategies of migrat...
Gene Kim: DevOps Evolution, AI Leadership, and Enterprise Transformations
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend interviews Gene Kim, the renowned author of "The Phoenix Project" and "The Unicorn Project....
VMware User Group Update Post Broadcom
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join hosts Keith Townsend and Dave Nicholson as they sit down with Brad Tompkins, Executive Director of VMware User Group (VMUG), to discuss the lates...
AI’s Enterprise Evolution: Enhancing Cloud Applications with Data-Driven Intelligence
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the CTO Advisor podcast, hosts Alistair Cooke and Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at the Futurum Group, delve into the transfo...
Navigating Digital Transformation and AI with SAP
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another insightful episode of The CTO Advisor Podcast! Today, we have the pleasure of hosting Dion Hinchcliffe, who recently joined the Fut...
Private AI with Dell Technologies
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this sponsored episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, host Keith Townsend welcomes Dell Technologies' Sharon Maher and Nicholas Brackney for a deep di...
From Data to Decisions: Futurum’s Intelligence Platform and GPT-4.0
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend, a Global Advisor at the Futurum Group, and Erik Bethke, the CTO of Futurum, discuss the la...
Embracing #100DaysOfCode: A Deep Dive with Chris Williams
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this enlightening episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Chris Williams joins host Keith Townsend to revisit their memorable discussion from Las Vegas...
The Evolution and Impact of Cloud Data Solutions: A Chat with Miles Ward
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Host: Keith Townsend, Futurum Global Advisor Guest: Miles Ward, CTO of Sada Overview: This episode of the CTO Advisor podcast features a return guest,...
Cohesity to Acquire Veritas – Sanjay Poonan
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Townsend interviews Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonan. Cohesity announced the intended acquisition of Veritas' data protection business. The acquisiti...
Introducing a New CTO Advisor – Alastair Cooke
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Alastair Cooke as a full-time voice within the Futurum Group Family via the CTO Advisor. Alastair will wear two hats within the Futurum G...
Remote Connectivity & Overcrowded Network Relief
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, Keith Townsend sits down with Jim King, Sales Director of SES Satellites, to talk about the importance of space networking—that is, sa...
Platform Engineer: What’s Old is New Again
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Return guest Nathaniel Avery joins podcast host Keith Townsend to talk platform engineering. Specifically, the duo talks about the holy grail of cre...
Replay-Serverless is bigger than Cloud – NY Times CTO 2018
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
*New York Times CTO, Nick Rockwell, joins Keith and Mark to talk about the big bet the New York Times is making on Serverless. Nick believes serverles...
Replay-New Job Who This? – Keith is leaving his role at CTOA.
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Keith is no longer the Principal of the CTO Advisor. What’s next, and what does that mean for the podcast?
Replay-Building and Managing Multicloud AI Infrastructure
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our conversation with Algolia’s CTO, Sean Mullaney. In this editorial conversation, Keith and Sean discuss the difference between develo...
Replay-Breaking the Glass Ceiling – Dashaun Carter VMware Explore EU 2022
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are jazzed to have Dashaun Carter, VMware Spring Developer Advocate, on the CTO Advisor Studio at VMware Explore 2022. Dashaun presented at both of...
Broadcom and VMware at VMware Explore EU
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Newman, The Futurum Group CEO, joins Keith Townsend, President of the CTO Advisor, to discuss the current state of VMware while the companies awai...
AI Meets High-Performance Computing (HPC)
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Guy Currier, the Futurum Group Contributor, joins the podcast from Super Compute 23. Keith and Guy discuss the news out of Super Computer 2023 and ho...
Accelerating ARM and x86 CI with Actuated
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Ellis, founder of OpenFaaS Limited, returns to the program to discuss his company's latest product, Actuated. Keith and Alex discuss the challen...
Data Protection with HPE and Zerto
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CTO Advisor podcast host, Keith Townsend has been a long time follower of Zerto data protection. Zerto has traditionally provided data protection via ...
New Job Who This? – Keith is leaving his role at CTOA.
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Keith is no longer the Principal of the CTO Advisor. What's next, and what does that mean for the podcast?
Cisco to buy Splunk – 5 Things to Watch
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cisco announced its intended acquisition of Splunk for $28B. Security industry analyst Jo Peterson shares her thoughts on the impact of the acquisitio...
Opportunites for VMware Partners post-Broadcom Aquisition
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Odgers, founder of End to End, joins Keith Townsend, host of the CTO Advisor Studio, to discuss potential opportunities for partners post-acquisi...
Broadcom and VMware – Divergent Views
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Newman, Futurum Group's Principal Analyst and CEO, joins Keith Townsend on this week's podcast. Both analysts attended VMware's annual conferen...
VMware Explore 2023 – Independent Analysis with Steve Mcdowell
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NAND Research Principal Analyst and Founding Partner Steve Mcdowell joins host Keith Townsend to discuss the announcements from VMware Explore 2023.
Build a Regional Cloud Provider
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rita Maria Fuziol,Director Data Center, Cloud, and Infrastructure at Millicom (Tigo), joined the program to discuss the opportunities and challenges o...
Building and Managing Multicloud AI Infrastructure
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our conversation with Algolia's CTO, Sean Mullaney. In this editorial conversation, Keith and Sean discuss the difference between developi...
Algolia – Powering Discovery via AI
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast episode of the CTO Advisor podcast episode is sponsored by Algolia software. In this episode, Keith Townsend interviews Algolia's CTO, Se...
Career Changes from Salesforce to Twilio to CockroachDB
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
About the session This episode features a conversation between Keith Townsend and Kevin Schwaba, an account executive for Cockroach DB. They discuss K...
Application Modernization at Google Scale
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google Cloud's Outbound Product Manager, Bobby Allen, a familiar voice to the podcast, brought along Stephen Orban, Google Cloud VP of Migrations. Ste...
Communities of Practice
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yadin Porter Deleòn joins Keith Townsend in today's episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast. In this episode, Keith and Yadin discuss the current state of...
Understanding a the value of a Data Lake House
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Overview This episode of the CTO Advisor podcast discusses IBM Watsonx.Data, a part of IBM’s AI platform and toolset. The conversation focuses on th...
Independent Analysis of Generative AI
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A cast of independent analysts comprised of, Keith Townsend (The CTO Advisor), Maribel Lopez (Lopez Research), Tim Crawford (AVOA), and Larry Carvalho...
How IBM and Red Hat Support Platform Engineering Efforts?
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Townsend, the Principal of the CTO Advisor, sits with Red Hat Director of Market Insights, Stu Miniman, to discuss platform engineering and Re...
Who’s Afraid of ChatGPT?
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As promised, Ned Bellavance joins the podcast to discuss all things creator AI. From programming to content creation, Ned shares how he leverages gene...