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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What If the Real Private AI Workload Isn’t an AI App?
What if VMware has its Private AI messaging wrong?
Hint: they do.
Treat this as free public advisory for VMware and for any competitor trying to sell Private AI infrastructure. It seems appropriate as we kick off Dell Tech World.
The mos...
An AI Agent Deleted a Production Database in 9 Seconds.
On April 25th, a Cursor AI coding agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted the entire production database for PocketOS — a SaaS platform serving car rental businesses — in a single API call. Nine seconds. The volume-level backups went with it...
Everyone Is Building Layer 2C — They Just Aren’t Calling It That
A surprising number of infrastructure, cloud, Kubernetes, and AI vendors all announced products solving variations of the same operational problem. The interesting part is that almost none of these announcements were fundamentally about the...
Deterministic Code in the Loop
Deterministic Code in the Loop
I was sitting in the HCA Healthcare presentation at Google Cloud Next, and a thought that had been forming for months finally snapped into focus.
We’ve spent the last two years debating whether humans or A...
Google Just Raised the Bar for Enterprise Agents. Are You Asking the Right Questions?
I spent time this week at Google Cloud Next watching Google lay out what enterprise-grade agent infrastructure actually looks like. I walked in skeptical. I walked out with more questions than answers — and I mean that as a compliment.
Bri...
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