The CTO Advisor
Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)The CTO Advisor Short thoughts on public cloud and private data center. Longer than a tweet. Shorter than a blog post. #CTOShort We talk AWS, Azure, GCP and traditional enterprise IT infrastructure.
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Broadcom's AI Factory has no Clothes
Broadcom’s AI Factory on VCF 9.1 is SDDC 2.0.
And I don’t mean that as a compliment.
The Software-Defined Data Center was one of VMware’s great marketing concepts. It described a future where software abstracted the underlying infrastruct...
Deskside AI is Getting Serious
I’ve been lobbying Dell to send me a Dell Pro Max with a GB300. Because who doesn’t want to play with a $148K workstation?
But even without it, deskside AI is starting to look like a serious option vs. just a few months ago. It has less to...
An Agent Will Run Your Test. It Won't Hold Your Question.
I've spent the past few months using AI agents as lab rats. Not as the subject of the experiment. As the labor.
They're excellent at the work I hate. Reading forty pages of API documentation to find the one attribute that makes the command...
Your docs don’t fail. That’s the problem.
Last week my AI agent rebuilt documentation I already had. It wrote a new index for a directory that already had an index. It wrote a new architecture document beside the architecture document, then politely fenced the real one as legacy. I...
Two Escapes, One Problem
I had two agent escapes in production this week. They looked like different failures. They were the same failure.
The first was the classic. I gave an agent access to my AWS account to stand up and run some lab work. It executed the work c...
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