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 - March 31, 2025
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Techstrong Gang - February 11, 2025
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...
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Techstrong Gang - February 18, 2025
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 ...
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Techstrong Gang - March 21, 2025
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...
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Techstrong Gang - March 7, 2025
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...
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Techstrong Gang - March 11, 2025
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...
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Techstrong Gang - March 17, 2025
Mike, Sulgana, Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, chief analyst for The Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the downstream impact of open source integrated developments (IDE) incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) agents, soon to be made available by the Eclipse Foundation. Then, the...
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Techstrong Gang - March 14, 2025
Alan, Mike, Jon, Lisa Martin, the CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the future of Intel now that Lip-Bu Tan has been appointed CEO.
Then, the gang debates the odds we’ll be using nuclear energy as a more ef...
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Techstrong Gang - March 13, 2025
Mike, Jon, Robert Reeves and Guy Currier, chief analyst for The Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, discuss how the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI is evolving following the latter’s $11.9 billion deal with CoreWeave. Then, they delve into how internal developers portals (IDPs) are...
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Techstrong Gang - March 19, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Andi Mann and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into why Google is spending $32 billion to acquire Wiz, a provider of a cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP).
Then, the gang discusses the challenges organizations are running into as they attem...
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Techstrong Gang - March 18, 2025
On today's Techstrong Gang, Alan, Mitch, Bonnie Schneider and Stephen Foskett discuss whether there is really an AI chip shortage or if it's a case of the boy who cried wolf. The gang also tackles the latest news in the rapidly heating Quantum market and, finally, whether monitoring seniors for h...
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Techstrong Gang - February 10, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, discuss the rise of platform engineering before debating the degree to which existing DevOps workflows need a tune-up.
Then, the gang turns its attention to yet another quest for a unicorn: the d...
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Techstrong Gang - March 10, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, chief analyst for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the degree to which machine learning operations (MLOps) and DevOps workflows need to converge before discussing how artificial intelligence (AI) agents will simplify applicatio...
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Techstrong Gang - March 12, 2025
Alan, Mike, Amanda, Chris Blask and Andi Mann dive into the rise of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) following a $2.85 billion acquisition of Moveworks and the launch of a Manus AI agent in China. Then, they take a look at why Apple, when it comes to Siri, appears to be falling well behind in...
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Techstrong Gang - February 19, 2025
Alan, Mike and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, discuss how geopolitics involving the Trump administration, TSMC and Intel is roiling the semiconductor industry.
Then, the gang turns its attention to a request from the British government that would require Apple ...
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Techstrong Gang - February 14, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the geopolitics of artificial intelligence (AI) following a move by the European Union to relax some its rules. Then, they disc...
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Techstrong Gang - February 13, 2025
Alan, Mike, Jon, Chris Blask and Anne Ahola Ward dive into the risks and implications of an America First approach to artificial intelligence (AI) that could isolate the United States from its allies. Then, they discuss the degree to which customers will now require cybersecurity and safety proto...
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Techstrong Gang - March 4, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch and Bonnie delve into the rise of “vibecoding” to build software using artificial intelligence (AI) tools before discussing the degree to which robots might be a threat in the wake of an incident in China.
Then, the gang turns its attention to the growing need to count carbons ...
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Techstrong Gang - March 3, 2025
Alan, Mike, Sulagna, Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, discuss just how inflated the artificial intelligence (AI) bubble has become.
Then, the gang debates the degree to which AI might be replacing software engineers before discussing what makes tr...
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Techstrong Gang - March 5, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and new gang member Andi Mann dive into the rush to shift semiconductor manufacturing to the U.S. in the wake of a $100 billion pledge from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC).
Then, the gang discusses the nascent rise of an artificial intelligence (AI) agen...
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Techstrong Gang Special Report - August 6, 2024
Alan Shimel along with Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz and The Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman discuss the volatility of today's stock market and Intel's jobs cuts.
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Techstrong Gang KubeCon Paris - March 21, 2024
Alan, Mike and Mitch are live at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference where the top issues of the day are the how platform engineering as a DevOps methodology drives cloud/native application developer experience, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on Kubernetes clusters ...
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Techstrong Gang KubeCon Paris - March 20, 2024
Live from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 in Paris, France - Day 1
Alan, Mike and Mitch are live at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 conference where the top issues of the day are how platform engineering as a DevOps methodology drives cloud/native application developer experience, t... -
Techstrong Gang - November 18, 2024
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.