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The Open Infrastructure Mandate: Navigating Virtualization and AI with SUSE and CSCS
Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with SUSE Chief Customer Officer Imran Khan and Swiss National Supercomputing Centre Associate Director Dr. Maria Grazia Giuffreda live from SUSECON to unpack the urgent shift toward open infrastructure and virtualization. As organizations navigate skyrock...
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Building the Sovereign AI Stack: SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA
Broadcasting live from the bustling show floor at SUSECON in Prague, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with SUSE's Sanjeet Singh to unpack the highly anticipated launch of the SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA. As enterprises struggle to move artificial intelligence projects from proof-of-concep...
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Breaking The Vendor Lock-In: The Great Virtualization Migration and Sovereign AI
Broadcasting live from the bustling show floor at SUSECON in Prague, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with SUSE Chief Strategy Officer Frank Feldmann to unpack the massive shifts currently shaking up the enterprise IT landscape. With Broadcom's acquisition of VMware forcing organizations ...
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The Sovereign Disruption: Why AI Requires a New Approach to IT Architecture
Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with Dell Technologies' EMEA CTO Marc O'Regan live from SUSECON in Prague to untangle the real reasons why 95% of AI pilots fail. The two explore the staggering disruption sweeping the IT landscape as organizations desperately balance legacy IT infrastruct...
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Hard Code vs. Soft Code: Securing the Agentic Era
Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with Kubernetes co-founder and Stacklok CEO Craig McLuckie alongside SUSE’s GM of Engineering Rick Spencer live from SUSECON 26 to unpack the reality of the agentic AI revolution. As AI agents rapidly gain the ability to debug errors, generate code on the ...
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Powering Platform Engineering: OpenChoreo and AI-Driven IDPs
Broadcasting live from SUSECON in Prague, Techstrong Group’s Alan Shimel sits down with WSO2's SVP of Channel, Kristian Gyorkos, to unpack the explosive evolution of internal developer platforms (IDPs). Gyorkos reveals how WSO2’s newly open-sourced CNCF sandbox project, OpenChoreo, goes beyond tr...
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Beyond Data Residency: SUSE’s Andreas Prins on the True Meaning of Digital Sovereignty
Broadcasting live from the bustling floor of SUSECON in Prague, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with longtime friend Andreas Prins, SUSE’s Global Head of Sovereign Solutions, to unpack the massive shifts happening in the enterprise IT landscape. As organizations grapple with skyrocketing...
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Unified Kubernetes Networking: Project Calico and SUSE Rancher
Broadcasting live from the bustling show floor at SUSECON in Prague, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with Tigera Product Manager Aadhil Abdul Majeed to explore the rapidly evolving world of Kubernetes networking. Abdul Majeed breaks down how Project Calico has transformed from a foundati...
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SUSE's Ecosystem and the Global Demand for Digital Sovereignty
Broadcasting live from the bustling show floor at SUSECON in Prague, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with SUSE's Hayley Wienszczak and Astor Nummelin Carlberg to discuss why the open-source pioneer's 33-year-old message of freedom and choice has suddenly become the most critical conversa...
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Securing the Cloud-Native Edge
Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with Veeam's Kevin Keller and Matt Slotten live from SUSECON in Prague to explore how the rules of data protection are entirely changing in the agentic era. The trio discusses how Veeam Kasten has pivoted far beyond simple Kubernetes backup to become a cri...
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Protecting the Cloud-Native Edge: CloudCasa and SUSE Integration
Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with Catalogic’s Pawel Staniec live from SUSECON to unpack the critical evolution of enterprise data protection. Moving far beyond legacy backup strategies, Staniec explains how CloudCasa was built from the ground up as a fully cloud-native, Kubernetes-fir...
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Bridging the AI Production Chasm: SUSE’s Rhys Oxenham on the New AI Factory
Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with SUSE's GM of AI, Rhys Oxenham, live from SUSECON to explore the massive "production chasm" currently stalling enterprise artificial intelligence adoption. Oxenham breaks down how the newly announced SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA acts as a critical digit...
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Escaping Vendor Lock-In with SUSE
Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with Dell Technologies' Consultant Product Manager Rabeeh Boufaissal live from the bustling floor of SUSECON in Prague. The two dive deep into the current "virtualization disruption," discussing how massive cost increases and vendor lock-in fears are drivi...
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Unifying Cloud-Native Architecture
Broadcasting live from the heart of SUSECON in Prague, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with Traefik Labs CEO Sudeep Goswami to unpack the massive convergence of virtualization migration, cloud-native modernization, and agentic AI transformation. With AI-generated code exploding at unprec...
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Beyond the Server Rack: Udo Wuertz on the SUSE AI Factory
Broadcasting live from the bustling show floor at SUSECON in Prague, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with Udo Wuertz, CTO of FSAS Technologies (a Fujitsu company), to explore how the very definition of enterprise IT infrastructure is changing. Wuertz explains that customers are no longer...
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The "Golden Ticket" for Cloud-Native Modernization
Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with SUSE's GM of Cloud Native, Peter Smails, and FIS ASP Managing Director Manuel Sammeth live from SUSECON in Prague. The three dive into how recent market consolidations and drastic licensing changes have handed enterprises a "golden ticket" to finally ...
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Pushing AI to the Edge: Industrial Interoperability
Broadcasting live from SUSECON, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with SUSE's Edge General Manager Keith Basil and Margo Project Chair Bart Nieuwborg to unpack the explosive evolution of industrial automation. The trio dives deep into how the open-source Margo initiative is shattering prop...
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Digital Resilience, AI Drift, and the Power of Open Source
Broadcasting live from the bustling SUSECON show floor, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with SUSE's Senior Director of Portfolio and Brand Strategy, Andy Fitzsimon, to unpack their eye-opening new research on enterprise digital resilience. Fitzsimon breaks down the undeniable reality tha...
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Escaping Vendor Lock-In and the Hybrid AI Future
Broadcasting live from the bustling floor at SUSECON in Prague, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with SUSE's Chief Revenue Officer, Werner Knoblich, to unpack why the European open-source pioneer is experiencing a massive, accelerating tailwind. Knoblich explains that in the wake of hyper...
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Securing the Sovereign Cloud with AWS and SUSE
Broadcasting live from the energetic SUSECON show floor in Prague, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with AWS's Manu Parbhaker and SUSE CMO Margaret Dawson to discuss their decade-long partnership and the monumental launch of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. With AWS investing a staggerin...
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Bridging the AI Production Gap: SUSE’s Agentic Future
Broadcasting live from the electric atmosphere of SUSECON, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with Abhinav Puri to discuss SUSE's ascendant transformation in the era of artificial intelligence. Puri breaks down the critical "production gap" organizations face as they transition from casual ...
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SUSE Ascendant: Seizing the Digital Sovereignty Moment
Broadcasting live from the electric show floor at SUSECON in Prague, Techstrong Group's Alan Shimel sits down with SUSE CMO Margaret Dawson to explore the undeniable, ascendant energy sweeping through the open-source pioneer. Dawson reveals how SUSE didn't just stumble into the digital sovereignt...
