Alan Shimel speaks with Mark Schettenhelm and Tony Anter, from BMC Software, about how organizations are taking a more strategic, value-driven approach to mainframe modernization. The discussion explores modular architectures, the business case for selective code conversion, and how AI-powered to...

In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights interview, pgEdge CEO Phillip Merrick explains how the open-source Postgres database has become a de facto standard for deploying AI applications. He discusses Postgres’ flexibility, ecosystem momentum, and its growing role in supporting distributed data ...

Robert Daigle, Global AI Lead at Lenovo ISG, examines the unanswered questions emerging from Meta Compute and the growing power demands of artificial intelligence. As AI systems begin consuming electricity at the scale of major cities, organizations must rethink infrastructure strategy, energy ef...

Jim Brennan, chief product and technology officer at GetReal Security, explains how cybercriminals are using AI-generated deepfakes to impersonate business and IT leaders. As synthetic media becomes more sophisticated, organizations face heightened risks from targeted social engineering attacks, ...

Bellini Capital Managing Director Arnie Bellini connects a recent surge in phishing attacks tied to extreme cold weather across the U.S. to broader concerns about national cybersecurity posture. He argues that escalating threat activity highlights the need for stronger digital security borders an...

Roy Katmor, co-founder and CEO of Orchid Security, discusses the growing risks posed by ungoverned identities and the expanding challenge of managing both human and machine access. Drawing on recent research into excessive privileges and orphaned accounts, Katmor outlines why stronger identity go...

SimSpace CEO Peter Lee explains why cybersecurity teams need access to cyber ranges that simulate real-world attack scenarios. As threats grow more sophisticated, organizations are moving beyond tabletop exercises to immersive environments that enable teams to test skills, validate defenses, and ...

Christian Romming, founder and CEO of Etleap, explains how his engineering background shaped the company’s mission to reduce complexity in data engineering. He outlines how Etleap's software integrates with cloud data warehouses, supports Apache Iceberg, and enables end-to-end data ingestion and ...

Shashi Kiran, chief marketing officer at Nile, outlines how artificial intelligence is accelerating the shift toward autonomous networks, reducing operational complexity while improving performance, reliability, and security across enterprise environments.

Kolton Andrus discusses Gremlin’s launch of Disaster Recovery Testing, a new capability designed to help organizations safely simulate large-scale cloud and infrastructure failures. The platform enables enterprises to test region, zone, and datacenter failovers to strengthen digital resilience, s...

Newly appointed Planview CEO Matt Zilli discusses how artificial intelligence is set to transform project management as collaboration across teams accelerates, redefining how organizations plan, prioritize, and deliver work at scale.

Pavlo Baron, co-founder and CEO of Platform Engineering Labs, discusses how platform engineering is evolving as AI reshapes coding and infrastructure management. The conversation explores the move toward more inclusive infrastructure-as-code models, the growing complexity of modern environments, ...

Dan Cole of Sophos shares insights emphasizing the shift from pure prevention to resilience. He discusses how AI is shaping threat detection, the importance of consistent security policies for hybrid work environments, and the role of managed detection and response in addressing evolving cyber ri...

In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights Series interview, Articul8 CEO Arun Subramaniyan discusses how his company’s recent $70 million funding round supports the development of AI agents capable of invoking domain-specific languages (DSLs). He explains why DSLs are critical for applying AI eff...

Account identity takeover and online fraud are exploding—and they’re no longer abstract threats. Alan Shimel recently became a victim himself, making this challenge painfully real. In this episode, Alan sits down with the team at Memcyco, a company on a mission to stop account takeover and digita...

Evan Prowse of ActiveState joins Alan Shimel to break down the key findings from ActiveState’s second annual State of Vulnerability Management and Remediation Report. This special cloud-native edition dives deep into how organizations are building applications with containers, the real-world stat...

Bindplane CEO Mike Kelly explains why the rapid adoption of OpenTelemetry is creating a new data management challenge for IT teams. As application environments become increasingly instrumented, organizations are collecting massive volumes of telemetry that must be governed, routed, and optimized ...

David Wang, Head of Product Management for Tetrate explains how Tetrate’s cloud-native networking and security roots—built on Kubernetes, Envoy, service mesh, and API gateways—have naturally expanded into securing AI workloads and agentic AI systems. David offers a clear, memorable analogy compar...

Casey Marks Chief Operating Officer of ISC2 shares insights from ISC2’s global research, certification portfolio and member-driven mission, explaining why skills, governance and professional standards matter more than ever. From the growing impact of AI on GRC and compliance to the importance of ...

In this interview, Leostream CEO Karen Gondoly warns that vendor privileged access management is fast becoming a critical blind spot in enterprise cybersecurity strategies. As organizations extend access to third-party suppliers and partners, attackers are increasingly exploiting excessive or poo...

Andreas Prins, Global Head Sovereign Solutions at SUSE focuses on the significance of data sovereignty. He discusses the challenges and opportunities related to sovereignty in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The conversation explores how open source drives innovation while addressing soverei...

In this interview, groundcover CEO Shahar Azulay explains why observability costs are set to steadily decline as IT teams rethink how and where telemetry data is stored. By leveraging their own cloud computing platforms instead of relying exclusively on third-party SaaS backends, organizations ca...

Lightrun CEO Ilan Peleg dives into the adverse impact artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools are starting to have on backend DevOps workflows as the rate at which code is being written continues to exponentially increase.