
Keith Townsend
Global Head of Advisory at The Futurum Group
CEO and Founder at The CTO Advisor
Host at The CTO Advisor Podcast
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thectoadvisor.com | Keith Townsend
Keith Townsend is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Advisor at Futurum Group, specializing in IT infrastructure, cloud technologies, and AI. With expertise spanning cloud, virtualization, networking, and storage, Keith has been a trusted partner in transforming IT operations across industries, including pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, government, software, and financial services.
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futurumgroup.com | Camberley Bates |Dion Hinchcliffe |Keith Townsend
Camberley brings over 25 years of executive experience leading sales and marketing teams at Fortune 500 firms. Before joining The Futurum Group, she led the Evaluator Group, an information technology analyst firm as Managing Director.
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thectoadvisor.com | Keith Townsend
Keith Townsend is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Advisor at Futurum Group, specializing in IT infrastructure, cloud technologies, and AI. With expertise spanning cloud, virtualization, networking, and storage, Keith has been a trusted partner in transforming IT operations across industries, including pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, government, software, and financial services.
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thectoadvisor.com | Keith Townsend
At Google Cloud Next, I sat down for a deep-dive discussion with Google Cloud Product Manager, Andrew Fetterer, that unlocked one of the most important AI infrastructure announcements of the show: Gemini Flash for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). In short, this is a capability that puts the raw power of Google’s AI—specifically Gemini—into customer-controlled environments, with options for both cloud-connected and fully air-gapped deployments.
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thectoadvisor.com | Keith Townsend
There’s a line of thinking floating around that goes something like this:“With LLaMA 4 offering a 10 million token context window, we don’t need RAG anymore.”Let’s pump the brakes on that. Yes, 10 million tokens is a massive leap. It’s roughly equivalent to 40MB of raw text. For reference, that’s about 80 full-length novels.
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