The CTO Advisor

This is a bit of a personal episode. Keith’s brother lost his wife to Cancer. Mark and Matthew Broberg (@MBBroberg) both recently lost their jobs as executives. We all talk about the impact of life punching you in the nose and how to recover and in some instances just allow for healing so that you can recover.

When life punches you in the nose

In this special CTO Dose, the women of tech talk about the current state of IT. Topics range for the impact of public cloud, diversity, and burnout. (Phoummala Schmitt @ExchangeGoddess, Leah Schoeb @vLeahSchoeb, Theresa Miller @24x7ITConnect, and Jodi Shely @rytalws).

Current State of Technology

Pivotal Container Orchestration – CTO Advisor 095

The CTO Advisor podcast co-host Mark May talks with Pivotal VP James Watters. Mark asks James to help organizations understand when they need container orchestration.

Keith and Mark sat down with VMUG CEO Brad Tompkins to talk the future of the VMware User Group (VMUG). The VMUG membership is a great pulse of the traditional IT organization. With all the talk about containers, serverless, and cloud, where are VMUG members in their technical journey? How does Tompkin navigate what members want to learn vs. what members must learn to avoid in his words not having an answer for the members CXOs. Great conversation on how to turn the ship from the bottom up.

VMUG – Pivoting to Avoid Becoming Legacy – CTO Advisor 094

How does Big Data impact your data protection strategy? Just as important, how does your data protection strategy fit into your data management strategy. Keith has mentioned the concept that compute has an opposing gravity to data. How does compute's gravity impact big data? Mark and Keith have on the CTO of startup Imanis Data to discuss why the data protection segment has seen so much investment. What are investors seeing that someone who hasn't looked at their backup strategy in two years doesn't? 

Data protection and big data – CTO Advisor Podcast 093

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure sponsored a conversation to discuss the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure product. While a sponsored conversation, Keith and Mark go right at Rahul Patil, VP of Software Engineering and Kash Iftikhar, VP of IaaS Public Cloud Services. Mark starts by asking about Oracle's reputation as a DB company vs. that of a cloud computing company. 

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Sponsored

Quietly Judging with Amy Lewis – CTO Advisor 091

Quietly judging our way into this week's CTO Advisor Podcast, this week's guest is Amy Lewis of The Geek Whisperers fame. This is a dual posted podcast as it's the first VirtualizedGeek episode as we begin talking careers over on virtualizedgeek.com. We've often wondered about Amy's career journey. She went from publishing to being a Marketing Director at a large publically traded software company. How did she make the jump? What advice can she give to others wanting to make a similar jump? 

In the 2nd half of the conversation, we hit it right off from the business. Chad Sakac could choose to lead another business. Why did he decide to take an individual contributor role at Pivotal. What's so special about the opportunity at Pivotal?