Techstrong Gang
166 Episodes
The Techstrong Gang brings together a collection of IT industry editors, analysts and pundits to put major IT news and trends in perspective.
Intended to help IT leaders make more informed strategic and tactical decisions, topics discussed typically span everything from the impact AI is having on society to the latest DevOps tools an IT team might employ to optimize workflows.
Come watch core Techstrong Gang members Alan Shimel, Mitch Ashley, Mike Vizard, Amanda Razani and Bonnie Schneider engage experts such as John Willis, Mark Hinkle, Tracy Ragan, Tracy Bannon and Bob Reselman to surface crucial insights into the issues changing the way we perceive the role of IT.
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39:21Episode 1
Techstrong Gang - December 23, 2024
Episode 1
Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, revisit the major issues, starting with artificial intelligence (AI) that impacted the technology industry most in 2024.
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41:20Episode 2
Techstrong Gang - December 19, 2024
Episode 2
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of a digital labor workforce enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Then, they debate how popular NVIDIA's $249 developer kit for building AI applications might be thi...
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51:57Episode 3
Techstrong Gang - December 18, 2024
Episode 3
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guests Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, and Stephen Foskett, president of The Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into why leaders of the technology industry are making a concerted effort to curry favor with the inco...
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49:35Episode 4
Techstrong Gang - December 17, 2024
Episode 4
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, debate the degree to which a lack of training is holding back adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) before discussing the opportunities AI will present to women.
Then, the ga...
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59:59Episode 5
Techstrong Gang - December 16, 2024
Episode 5
Alan, Mike and special guests John Willis, Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, debate the degree to which application development is going through a Renaissance period thanks to the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) before discussing how...
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46:26Episode 6
Techstrong Gang - December 20, 2024
Episode 6
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Lisa Martin debate the degree to which agentic artificial intelligence (AI) might one day soon make application developers obsolete. Then, they discuss whether society may become too dependent on AI for emotional support, even to the point of being a surro...
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41:13Episode 7
Techstrong Gang - December 13, 2024
Episode 7
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Anne Ahola Ward and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for the The Futurum Group, dive into the current state of cybersecurity as outlined during the Black Hat Europe 2024 conference. Then, they discuss the rise of drones as a security concern following a wave of e...
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47:39Episode 8
Techstrong Gang - December 12, 2024
Episode 8
In today's Techstrong Gang, Alan is joined by Jon Swartz and Lisa Martin. They discuss the recently announced merger of Omnicon and Interpublic advertising agencies. What impact did AI have on this? What about big tech? The gang also dives into the "scheme issues" with the latest model from OpenA...
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49:11Episode 9
Techstrong Gang - December 11, 2024
Episode 9
Alan, Mike, Jon, Amanda and Guy Gurrier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, discuss how global trade tensions with China will impact IT. Then, they discuss the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting healthcare insurance in the wake of the tragic murder of the ...
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51:05Episode 10
Techstrong Gang - December 10, 2024
Episode 10
Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guests Tracy Bannon and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, debate the merits of the Trump administration's appointment of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Crypto Czar before discussing how AI, in combination with satellite technolo...
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1:01:05Episode 11
Techstrong Gang - December 9, 2024
Episode 11
Alan, Mike and special guests John Willis, Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visual Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the debate about remote work following reports from Stanford University and Sen. Jodi Ernst (R-IW).
Then, the gang takes a look at what it might or might not mean...
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52:48Episode 12
Techstrong Gang - December 6, 2024
Episode 12
Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor at The Futurum Group, delve into just how catastrophic the breach of telecommunications networks being attributed to China really is.
Then, the gang turns its attention to the record amount of spending that occurred on Cyber Monday befo...
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33:51Episode 13
Techstrong Gang - December 5, 2024
Episode 13
Today’s Techstrong Gang is a bit different -- it is an intimate lineup of just Alan Shimel and Jon Swartz in person from the Techstrong TV studio at AWS re:Invent. Jon and Alan discuss what AWS's end goal is and assumptions they are making that are driving many of the product and service announce...
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28:32Episode 14
Techstrong Gang - December 4, 2024
Episode 14
Alan, Mike and Mitch, live at the AWS re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas, dive into everything from Nova foundational models that were unfurled to the latest extensions of Amazon Q Developer that promise to make it simpler to modernize legacy applications.
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47:49Episode 15
Techstrong Gang - December 3, 2024
Episode 15
In today’s Techstrong Gang, Alan is in Las Vegas with Camberley Bates for AWS re:Invent. They are joined by Jon Swartz and Bonnie Schneider to discuss the “retirement” of Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, and what it means. Then, they discuss the FTC opening an investigation of Microsoft, and lastly, ...
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44:07Episode 16
Techstrong Gang - December 2, 2024
Episode 16
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50:08Episode 17
Techstrong Gang - November 27, 2024
Episode 17
Alan, Mike, Mitch and Amanda dive into the 10 things IT professionals can be thankful for during uncertain times, including everything from generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the rise of platform engineering to better cybersecurity and even lower interest rates.
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45:15Episode 18
Techstrong Gang - November 26, 2024
Episode 18
Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Stephen Foskett, president of The Tech Field Day unit of The Futurum Group, delve into the state of wireless networking following an event hosted last week.
Then, the gang turns its attention to how object storage systems are evolving in a way that might eliminate the nee...
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50:19Episode 19
Techstrong Gang - November 25, 2024
Episode 19
Alan, Mike and special guests John Willis, Tracy Bannon and Tracy Ragan discuss the degree to which the open source software community has lost its innocence in an era when cybercriminals now routinely attack software supply chains. Then, the gang turns its attention to whether data science teams...
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41:14Episode 20
Techstrong Gang - November 19, 2024
Episode 20
In today’s Techstrong Gang, Alan, Bonnie Schneider and Stephen Foskett discuss the recent AppDev Tech Field Day, which took place at KubeCon. The gang also discusses a recent article on DevOps.com showing DevOps engineers are reaching management-level status faster than other IT workers. Finally,...
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45:42Episode 21
Techstrong Gang - November 22, 2024
Episode 21
In today's Techstrong Gang, Alan is joined by Jon Swartz and Camberley Bates. The gang discusses Microsoft’s announcement about getting serious about security — again. Camberley provides an update on the SC24 conference, which she attended. Finally, they discuss Elon Musk's lawsuit to prevent a C...
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40:20Episode 22
Techstrong Gang - November 21, 2024
Episode 22
Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Hope Lynch and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visual Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the state of supercomputing with a report from the Supercomputing 2024 conference.
Then, the gang turns its attention to how end users will cope with hundreds of generat...
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50:41Episode 23
Techstrong Gang - November 20, 2024
Episode 23
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Amanda discuss the implications of Brendan Carr being nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to become chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Then, the gang turns its attention to how generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents might create a nee...
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20:10Episode 24
Techstrong Gang - November 18, 2024
Episode 24
Alan, Mike and Mitch wrap it up at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference with some reflections on the impact of patent trolls on open source software projects and the role the show plays in bringing together some of the best minds in the IT industry.