Techstrong Gang

Techstrong Gang

Techstrong Gang is Techstrong TV’s daily roundtable on AI, cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud and digital transformation. Hosted by Alan Shimel with rotating experts, the show breaks down the stories shaping enterprise technology.

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  • Techstrong Gang - May 6, 2025

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, explore the potential of Amazon's satellite communications service as a viable alternative to Starlink before moving on to appreciate all the advancements enabled by the Hubble Space Telescope...

  • Techstrong Gang - May 5, 2025

    The Gang reflects on the RSAC Conference and discuss the rise of agentic AI, noting a 72% usage rate among organizations. They highlight the API economy's role in AI integration and predict widespread adoption by 2029. Innovations in power and memory technology aim to enhance efficiency while add...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 30, 2025

    From the RSAC Conference in San Francisco, Alan, Lisa Martin and Jon Swartz highlight the rise of AI and technology trends. Cisco announces an open-source AI model for cybersecurity, while IT managers express concerns about AI-related risks. The discussion covers potential security breaches, rans...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 25, 2025

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Lisa Martin, the CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, highlight how a navigation application built using quantum computers might one day replace the ground positioning system (GPS) based on satellites that is pervasively used around the world.

    Then, the gang turns its at...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 8, 2025

    Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the potential impact tariffs will have on IT spending trends before diving into the degree to which the U.S. should protect a fledgling robotics industry from overseas competitors.

    Then, the gang t...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 21, 2025

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Sulagna and Tracy Ragan delve into the implications of a ruling that acknowledges Google has been operating as a monopoly in the online advertising sector.

    Then, the gang takes a look at why Microsoft is investing more in advancing cloud-native technologies before discussing t...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 1, 2025

    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...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 28, 2025

    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...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 23, 2025

    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...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 16, 2025

    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...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 29, 2025

    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 ...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 18, 2025

    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...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 10, 2025

    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...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 9, 2025

    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...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 11, 2025

    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...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 22, 2025

    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...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 17, 2025

    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.

  • Techstrong Gang - April 3, 2025

    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.

  • Techstrong Gang - April 15, 2025

    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.

  • Techstrong Gang - April 7, 2025

    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.

  • Techstrong Gang - April 24, 2025

    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...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 14, 2025

    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 ...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 4, 2025

    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...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 2, 2025

    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...