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Keith Townsend is the founder of The CTO Advisor LLC and is an IT management consultant with more than 18 years of related experience designing, implementing and managing data center technologies. His areas of expertise include virtualization, networking and storage solutions for Fortune 500 organizations. He holds a BA in computing and an MS in information technology from DePaul University.






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