Keith Townsend

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As a long-time delegate, Keith has participated in over 35 Field Day Events. He has participated in Cloud, Data Center, Networking, AI, and Storage events. With over 25 years of experience advising, managing, and designing enterprise architecture, Keith brings a unique IT decision-maker lens to Field Day events.






Links with Tag @CTOAdvisor, @VirtualizedGeek

  1. Does Storage Matter in AI Inferencing? What About the SSD?
  2. Defeating Data Gravity? – Hammerspace
  3. Cloud Field Day – Infrastructure Matters on the Road
  4. Taking Private Cloud to the Next Level
  5. Do Processors Matter in the Cloud?
  6. Navigating Multiple Observability Tools: Mezmo’s Goal of Simplifying the Journey
  7. VMware Cross-Cloud: Is It a Viable Path Post Broadcom?
  8. Navigating Multicloud Security Challenges: A Deep Dive Into Prosimo’s Approach
  9. Navigating Multiple Observability Tools: Mezmo’s Goal of Simplifying the Journey
  10. Private Data Centers vs. Public Cloud: Can Apstra Automation Bridge the Gap?
  11. 155: GreyBeards SDC23 Wrap Up Podcast With Dr. J Metz, Technical Dir. Of Systems Design AMD and Chair of SNIA BoD
  12. Cloud Adjacent vs. Native Cloud Services
  13. Hybrid Infrastructure Is an Operating Model
  14. Infrastructure as Code Is … Code
  15. Solving the Cloud Skills Shortage
  16. The Future of the Data Center Control Plane Is in the Public Cloud
  17. Juniper Powered by MIST AI – This Stuff Is Hard
  18. 118: GreyBeards Talks Cloud-Native Object Storage With Greg DiFraia, Scality and Stephen Bacon, HPE
  19. CTOA Briefing – Storpool
  20. NetApp Data Science Toolkit
  21. Will the DPU Kill the Storage Array?
  22. Cloud Application Mobility – The Hard Way
  23. HPE vs Dell Cloud Stories – Who’s Winning?
  24. Dell EMC PowerStore: TFDx Quick Take
  25. OpenShift TFDx Hot Take – What’s the Tipping Point for K8s?
  26. vSphere 7 and Kubernetes – Should Customers Wait?
  27. vSphere 7 and Kubernetes – CTO Advisor Episode 118
  28. Hot Take Zerto 8.0 Tech Field Day 21
  29. Google Cloud VMware Engine – Hot Take
  30. vSphere Kubernetes Hot Take
  31. Dell Technologies PowerOne – Dell’s Private Cloud?
  32. Kubernetes and Traffic Lights
  33. Talent Is Heavier Than Data
  34. 91: Keith and Ray Show at CommvaultGO 2019
  35. Commvault Activate – CommvaultGo 2019
  36. Commvault Metallic and AWS RDS on vSphere – The Future of IT
  37. Master’s Lesson in IT Management
  38. CommvaultGo 2019 Hot Take
  39. Pure Accelerate: Cloud Block Service
  40. Commvault Breaking the Storage Laws
  41. VMware’s Cloud in 300-Words
  42. Dell Tech Cloud CFD6 – Hot Take
  43. Pure Accelerate FlashArray
  44. Lucid Link CFD6 – Hot Take
  45. NetApp CFD6 – Hot Take
  46. EXTRAHOP CFD6 Hot Take
  47. HashiCorp CFD6 Hot Take
  48. Morpheus Data CFD6 – Hot Take
  49. 89: Keith & Ray Show at Pure//Accelerate 2019
  50. Hammerspace CFD6 – Hot Take
  51. The Campus and Cloud-First
  52. Intel Answering SAP HANA’s Tough Questions
  53. Intel Data Centric Business Overview
  54. Meet Field Day Delegate – Keith Townsend
  55. Are CIO’s Missing the Metadata Bus?
  56. Leveraging Backup to Advance Your Decision Making
  57. Modern Data Protection Summary
  58. Musing: The Short Life of Influencers — EtherealMind
  59. Is Oracle Cloud an alternative to AWS?
  60. Moving SAP and other legacy apps to the cloud
  61. Rubrik – A metadata company in backup company’s clothing
  62. Cloud Field Day Interview: Nick Janetakis
  63. Serverless computing highlights new security challenges in hybrid IT
  64. Cloud Field Day 3 Preview – Data Protection
  65. NetApp Data Fabric Cloud Field Day 3 Preview
  66. Mitigating the risk of Cloud Lift & Shift
  67. An update on Oracle’s Cloud
  68. HCI/Not HCI – It doesn’t matter
  69. Storage is boring
  70. Understandig CASB for SaaS Security
  71. Solarwinds Orion Integration
  72. Converged Infrastructure died a long time ago, right?
  73. Are network vendors ignoring serverless security?
  74. CTO Advisor 068: Commvault HyperScale
  75. Why Docker is finally embracing Kubernetes
  76. CTO Advisor 067: Should you worry about GDPR?
  77. Should you worry about GDPR?
  78. Don’t call it back up
  79. On-premises Serverless with Docker via OpenFaaS
  80. DockerCon 2017 EU – Docker integrates Kubernetes and Swarm
  81. Why Docker is finally embracing Kubernetes
  82. Understanding Serverless Computing
  83. Why the hybrid IT control plane is destined for the public cloud
  84. Datacore Tech Field Day 15 Reap
  85. Riverbed Tech Field Day 15 Recap
  86. Actifio Tech Field Day 15 Recap
  87. Scale Computing Tech Field Day 15 Recap
  88. Ixia Tech Field Day 15 Session Recap
  89. Skyport Tech Field Day 15 Recap – YouTube
  90. Cisco Tech Field Day 15 Session Recap
  91. Inefficiencies of large systems
  92. 3 things infrastructure pros need to know about nested virtualization on Google Cloud
  93. Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Ixia
  94. Techfield Day 15 Preview: DataCore
  95. Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Skyport Systems
  96. Techfield Day 15 Preview: Actifio
  97. Tech Field Day 15 Preview: Scale Computing
  98. NVMe to enable truly composable infrastructure?
  99. VMworld 2017 preview: Current state of VMware
  100. Is it time for virtual switch abstraction to fade?
  101. Network as a Service provider TeloIP
  102. 3 Linux Foundation networking projects that your business needs to know
  103. [Video] Gigamon Network Field Day 15 Preview
  104. IP Infusion: Network Field Day 15 Preview
  105. Ah… NSX, We Meet Again.
  106. Barefoot Networks looks to redefine ASIC in network device design with its Tofino chip
  107. How Intel’s open source Data Plane Development Kit enables high-performance Linux networking
  108. Is Cisco All in on Hyper-converged?
  109. Simplifying Private Cloud – Easier said…
  110. Cirba – Virtualization Field Day 6 Preview
  111. ZeroStack – Virtualization Field Day 6 Preview
  112. FalconStor – Virtualization Field Day 6 Preview
  113. 3 must-watch startups from VMware alum
  114. The potential of microservices within the data center
  115. TechTalk 9: Copy data solutions
  116. Hyperconverged vendor Maxta announces SDN partnership
  117. Is Data Virtualization the Future of Enterprise Storage?
  118. CopyData yeah… Long live Data Virtualization
  119. [Video] Storage Field Day 7 Review
  120. VMware – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  121. Transporter – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  122. Springpath – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  123. Primary Data – Storage Field Day 7
  124. Maxta – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  125. Kaminario – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  126. Exablox – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  127. Cloudian – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  128. Catalogic Software – Storage Field Day 7 Preview
  129. Hyper-converged systems: What you need to know about this hot virtualization topic
  130. Why should CIO’s and business leaders care about Software Defined Networking
  131. What’s is Software Defined Storage – Techtalk 42
  132. Why abstraction (software-defined) is important – TechTalk 40
  133. Software-Define alternative to Hyper-Convergence
  134. Nutanix and Scale: Two ends of the hyper-converged market
  135. Is the software defined data center a VMware only concept?
  136. Dispelling the FUD around iSCSI
  137. SDDC is a little less than Vaporware
  138. The importance of the control plane in SDDC
  139. EMC and VMware are disrupting Server SAN
  140. Wet your VMworld whistle with this SDDC symposium
  141. Wet your VMworld whistle with this SDDC symposium