Alastair Cooke

CTO Advisor

Alastair has made a twenty-year career out of helping people understand complex IT infrastructure and how to build solutions that fulfill business needs. Much of his career has included teaching official training courses for vendors, including HPE, VMware, and AWS.

Alastair has written hundreds of analyst articles and papers exploring products and topics around on-premises infrastructure and virtualization and getting the most out of public cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Alastair has also been involved in community-driven, practitioner-led education through the vBrownBag podcast and the vBrownBag TechTalks.

Recent Insights, NEWS & RESEARCH:

Platform as a Service for Resilient Geo-Distributed Applications, Akka 3 Release, and Lightbend Trading as Akka
Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on releasing version 3 of the Akka framework and rebranding Lightbend as Akka. Resilient geo-distributed applications have never been easier to build and operate.
Competing With Microsoft Copilot AI, Tabnine Covers More of the Software Development Life Cycle and Simplifies the Role of a Software Engineer
Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day event lead at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Tabnine’s comprehensive vision of AI for the software development life cycle.
OpenStack-based Private Cloud Management Service with Migration Tools to Move Virtual Machines from VMware vSphere
Alastair Cooke, Event Lead at Tech Field Day, shares his insights on the Platform9 launch of Private Cloud Director for on-premises private cloud as a service and migration from an existing virtualization platform.
Morpheus Data Cloud Management Platform Unifies AWS, Azure, and On-Premises Virtualization with the Promise of HCI in a Near Future Release.
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Morpheus Data’s Cloud Field Day 20 presentation. Morpheus enables multi-cloud platform choice for large enterprises.
Reference Architectures, Customer Innovation Labs, and Industry-Standard Ethernet Enable Cost-Effective Ethernet for AI Training
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares insights from the Juniper Networks presentation at Cloud Field Day 20 on 800GB Ethernet for AI training and the Juniper AI Innovation Lab.
The Oxide Cloud Computer Platform is a First-Principles Redesign of On-Premises Cloud Infrastructure.
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Oxide Computer’s multi-rack-scale on-premises cloud infrastructure and the innovative approach Oxide brings to tightly integrated server infrastructure hardware design.

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