Mike, Jon, Bonnie and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, delve into the reasons why the X social media platform is being merged by Elon Musk into xAI before discussing why Oracle might be overly reticent to confirm a cloud security breach.

Then, the gang t...

Alan, Mike, Tracy Ragan, Chris Blask and Teri Robinson dive into a United Nations report highlighting the use of slave labor to perpetrate online scams before discussing the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) agents may soon enable application developers to build more secure application...

Alan, Mike, Amanda, Chris Blask and Lisa Martin, chief marketing advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the impact digital shelf labels (DSLs)—being adopted by, for example, Walmart and Kroger—will for better or worse have on the way consumers shop.

Then, the gang looks at how artificial intel...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and Guy Currier, chief analyst for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, discuss the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools based on open source models might supplant proprietary rivals before taking a look at the way the Trump administration is...

Mike, Tracy Ragan, Guy Currier, chief analyst 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 the state of artificial intelligence (AI) security before discussing what infrastructure will be required to run ...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the CVE controversy that has emerged as the Trump Administration continues to evaluate funding for the program.

Then, the gang discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) might be used to further increase globali...

Mike, Robert Reeves and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the degree to which Big Tech is seeing a return on its investment in President Donald Trump.

Then, the gang turns its attention to the rise of Argo as an open source continuous delivery (CD) platfo...

Mike, Chris Blask, JP Morgenthal and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into IBM’s efforts to make the mainframe a platform for running artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

Then, the gang discusses the implications of a federal effort to eliminate the paper check before c...

Mike, Jon, Sulgana, Andi Mann and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the latest artificial intelligence (AI) announcements from Google before taking a look at a less ambitious agentic AI effort being made by Atlassian.

Then, the gang takes a look at a lawsuit involving alg...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie, Robert Reeves and Stephen Foskett, president of The Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, celebrate Earth Day by diving into the impact demand for artificial intelligence (AI) is having on the construction of data centers before previewing an AI Infrastructure event occurri...

Alan, Camberley Bates, Lisa Martin, Jon Swartz and JP Morganthal dive into the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta over its past acquisitions and potential monopoly concerns, as well as NVIDIA's announcement of U.S.-based chip production, sparking debate over feasibility and long-term impact.

At KubeCon Europe, the Techstrong Gang debates Microsoft’s new Kubernetes UI, Google’s cluster orchestration tool, and the future of observability—asking if open source wins by default or if we’re just stuck with too many tools.

In today’s Techstrong Gang, Alan, Camberley, Mitch and Bonnie Schneider discuss tariffs, on, off, on, off. They then turn to Microsoft pushing forward with Recall, security concerns be damned, and end the show with a report from Bonnie from the recent eMerge Americas conference with Prophets of AI.

Mike and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, provide retrospective insights into the cloud native technologies and trends that emerged during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 conference in London this past week.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon, Sulagna and JP Morgenthal dive into how artificial intelligence (AI) agents will be used to expose criminal behavior online before debating the merits of a raft of AI coding tools that are now becoming available.

Then, the gang turns its attention to how AI will enable th...

Alan, Mike, Tracy Ragan, John Willis and Guy Currier, chief analyst for the Visible Impact arm of The Techstrong Group, dive into President Trump’s efforts to discredit cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs before debating the merits of the latest lawsuit filed by OpenAI against Elon Musk.

Then, the ...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Guy Currier, chief analyst for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of the rise of a NeoNephos Foundation to build sovereign clouds in Europe.

Then, the gang assesses the latest market research from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (C...

Alan, Mike and Andi Mann delve into the forces driving adoption of platform engineering before discussing why it remains so challenging to convince application developers to adopt best DevSecOps practices.

Then, the gang dives into how much momentum there really is behind IT teams looking to mig...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie, Chris Blask and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of a $4.4 billion deal to take SolarWinds private.

Then, the gang debates the degree to which deepfakes can be thwarted using a combination of legislation and...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into how the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is leveraging IT expertise to upend constitutional convention.

Then, the gang turns its attention to how Cisco’s artificial intelligence ...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Lisa Martin dive into a set of DevOps market research reports from The Futurum Group that find increased levels of maturity among organizations adopting best practices is driving a forecasted compound annual growth rate in excess of 9% through 2028.

Then, the gang disc...

Alan, Mike, Jon, Guy Currier, chief analyst for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, and Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the level of impact artificial intelligence (AI) is having on organizations today versus its potential. Then, they delve into the implications o...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie, Sulagna and Stephen Foskett, president of the The Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of reports from Harness, CAST AI and JLL that all point to massive waste of IT infrastructure that is occurring at a time when vacancy rates in data centers ar...