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VCF 9: The Ops Layer Is the Real Story
Broadcom’s release of VMware Cloud Foundation 9 is more than a version bump.
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
Scale Breaks Everything: Knowing When to Make GitOps a Platform Capability
Seven signs your GitOps practice has outgrown “team experiment” status and needs the support, standards, and funding of a true platform service.
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
FinOps and GitOps: Why “One-Size-Fits-All” Is a Trap for Enterprise IT
The enterprise graveyard is littered with the ghosts of initiatives that promised a clean, “one-size-fits-all” fix.
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
When GitOps Isn’t the Right Tool for the Job
A practical look at when GitOps adds complexity instead of clarity
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
GitOps is an Enterprise Problem, Not a Kubernetes Problem
Platform vs. the Platform
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
Private‑First Cloud Services: Stop Making S3 Headlines
Set guardrails, not tickets—a paved road for platform and application teams.
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
The Golden Path to Enterprise AI Isn’t One or the Other
Why Platform Teams Must Design for Both Abstraction and Control — and Know When to Lean Hard Into Each
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
SageMaker Isn’t Just a Service — It’s the Blueprint for Your AI Platform
What AWS’s lightning-fast support for OpenAI’s new models reveals about building scalable, secure, and repeatable AI platforms.
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
🧠 Edge AI and IoT: AI’s Hidden Infrastructure Problem
Why the success of Edge AI has less to do with your model—and everything to do with the hardware and lifecycle choices beneath it.
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
Oxide’s $100M Raise Is a Signal: Cloud-Native Experiences Are Ready to Run Anywhere
An $100M permission slip to build the fourth cloud.
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)
Enterprise AI’s Dirty Secret: Nobody Knows How to Deploy It
Training the model isn’t the hard part. Supporting it like real infrastructure is.
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Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor)

July 2025

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