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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Can We Use OpenStack?
Years ago I failed a job interview on one question. The interviewer asked how I’d deploy a container in OpenStack. I couldn’t begin to answer.
I thought I’d blanked. I hadn’t. The question has no answer. OpenStack doesn’t deploy containers...
Every vendor sells an “AI Platform.” None of them sells a complete one
I run a lab, not a spreadsheet. Put the major vendors on real hardware and the pattern is consistent: no single vendor delivers a complete enterprise AI stack. You compose one across vendors. Completeness is built, not bought.
The layer mo...
AI Helped Write this Post - that's not the point
This weekend, I started a project that, on the surface, looked like I was finally giving in and using AI to write more of my content. The thesis was simple. Take a couple of hundred of my blog posts from before I started leaning on AI, and...
Cloud-First Was Wrong. AI-First Is "Wronger"
Early in the cloud hype cycle, there was a sentiment that public cloud would displace the private data center—not just as the primary way to deliver enterprise IT services, but entirely. The need for a private data center would go away. Tha...
The most complete on-prem AI platform is also the most captive
For the last stretch I’ve been chasing a question that comes up in nearly every enterprise infrastructure conversation I’m in: what comes after private cloud?
Not as a marketing label. As an operating model.
Most large enterprises aren’t...
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