Andrew Stanley

Andrew Stanley, SMS' Chief Technology Officer, joined in 2002 as a junior network engineer, supporting Department of Defense IT infrastructures and leading programs for the Executive Office of the President and DARPA. Promoted to Director of Engineering in 2021, he drove talent development and innovation across the company. A private pilot at 16 and former U.S. Army Information Systems Analyst, Andrew earned an IT degree from George Mason University through the Army's Green to Gold program.

LLM vs. AI: What IT Leaders Need to Know

Every software vendor seems to have an AI story now. Some talk about large language models, others talk

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DevOps Maturity Model: Where Does Your Team Stand?

Many teams say they are “doing DevOps” because they use cloud infrastructure, automation tools, or CI/CD pipelines. Yet

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AWS Database Migration Service: A Guide to Migrate Legacy Databases

How much downtime can your business tolerate during a database migration? For many IT teams, that question shapes

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Getting Started with Langflow AI: Effortlessly Build Your Own AI Chatbot without Code!

What is Langflow? Langflow is a powerful and intuitive platform designed to simplify the creation of AI applications.

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Leading vs. Following: Innovations in Reasoning AI

OpenAI's O1 and O3 models showcase groundbreaking reasoning capabilities, while efficient alternatives like DeepSeek R1 and s1 demonstrate
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Automating Operating System Hardening

Learn the importance of operating system hardening and how to automate your process with OpenSCAP, Ansible, Packer and
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SMS HCIaaS With Nutanix

IT infrastructure-as-a-service (ITaaS) models, such as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) as a service (HCIaaS), are becoming more popular as
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Bare Metal to Kubernetes as a Service – Part 3 of 3

Integrating Rancher with Openstack simplifies the deployment and management of production-ready Kubernetes clusters at scale on any cloud,
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Bare Metal to Kubernetes as a Service – Part 2 of 3

Deploy an Openstack cloud on top of hosts managed by MAAS using Canonical's Juju, an open source application
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