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Redefining the Fundamentals: What Does It Mean to Build in the Modern Enterprise?

4 days ago | 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.
87% Faster Code Delivery with AI? Here’s What They’re Not Telling You

2 weeks ago | 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.
Gemini Flash: Google’s AI Edge Play Delivers for Security-Conscious and Latency-Driven Enterprises

2 weeks ago | 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.
Does a 10M Token Context Window Kill the Need for RAG? Not Even Close

2 weeks ago | 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.
The AI Rewrite Fantasy: Why Replacing Your IT Staff with AI Is Still a Mirage

3 weeks ago | thectoadvisor.com | Keith Townsend

Let me tell you a little story about how I wildly underestimated the effort of rewriting a friend’s legacy Angular application. Like many of us in the enterprise IT trenches, I thought, “Hey, AI can help accelerate this.” I mean, we’re swimming in generative AI hype—tools like ChatGPT and Cursor AI promise to be copilots, pair programmers, and even whole dev teams in a box. So I strapped in and gave it a go.
Coding Without Code: A Journey in Low-code/No-Code Development

Oct 16, 2024 | thectoadvisor.com | Keith Townsend

In this episode of the CTO Advisor podcast, host Keith Townsend welcomes Delainy Dalton, a No-Code Developer in the healthcare insurance sector. Delainy shares her extraordinary journey from healthcare insurance sales and clinical care coordination to her current role as a no-code developer. She explains how her past experiences and analytical mindset have been crucial in developing complex algorithms for healthcare payer platforms.
Gene Kim: DevOps Evolution, AI Leadership, and Enterprise Transformations

Aug 7, 2024 | thectoadvisor.com | Keith Townsend

In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend interviews Gene Kim, the renowned author of “The Phoenix Project” and “The Unicorn Project.” Gene shares his experiences and insights from his extensive DevOps and IT leadership career, exploring how these fictional narratives reflect real-world challenges and triumphs in technology transformations.
Navigating Digital Transformation and AI with SAP

Jun 12, 2024 | thectoadvisor.com | Keith Townsend

Welcome to another insightful episode of The CTO Advisor Podcast! Today, we have the pleasure of hosting Dion Hinchcliffe, who recently joined the Futurum Group and leads their CIO practice. With over 30 years in the IT industry, Dion shares his vast experience as an ex-practitioner, chief architect, and current strategic advisor at the CIO level. In this episode, we delve into Dion’s early weeks at Futurum Group and his reflections on SAP Sapphire.
From Data to Decisions: Futurum's Intelligence Platform and GPT-4.0

May 15, 2024 | thectoadvisor.com | Keith Townsend

In this episode of the CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend, a Global Advisor at the Futurum Group, and Erik Bethke, the CTO of Futurum, discuss the latest release from OpenAI, GPT-4.0. They begin by sharing their experiences at Futurum, where both have been working for seven months, and highlighting the development of a new intelligence platform aimed at providing actionable insights from data.
Exploring Sovereign Cloud Options: A Introduction for IT Infrastructure Decision-Makers

May 1, 2024 | thectoadvisor.com | Keith Townsend

It’s time for an update on the hybrid cloud terminology and landscape. With the recent developments around the European Digital Operation al Resilience Act (DORA) and increased interest in sovereign cloud, the market has begun to reposition solutions marketed as hybrid cloud now as sovereign cloud solutions. We wanted to highlight the latest offerings from each major public cloud provider and Broadcom. Azure: Azure StackAzure Stack is Microsoft’s umbrella branding for its hybrid cloud platform.