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 - January 21, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, discuss the hiring outlook for IT professionals in 2025.
Then, the gang debates the degree to which an energy shortage might curtail artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions before delving...
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Techstrong Gang - December 23, 2024
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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Techstrong Gang - October 24, 2024
Mike, Mitch, Jon, Anne Ahola Ward, CEO of CircleClick Media, and Guy Currier, CTO of the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the rise of Qualcomm as a disruptive force in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Then, they discuss the degree to which AI is actually increasing at th...
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Techstrong Gang - November 15, 2024
Alan, along with Mitch, Mike and special guest Guy Currier, discuss KubeCon attendance and vendor satisfaction. They highlight the growth of the open source community and debate the sustainability of business models. Lastly, they explore impact of AI on software engagement, suggesting shifts in t...
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Techstrong Gang - April 16, 2024
Alan, Mike, Amanda and special guest John Willis dive into what’s real about bipartisan data privacy legislation that is being proposed in Washington. Then the gang moves onto whether organizations should be building their own large language models (LLMs) before discussing the impact artificial i...
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Techstrong Gang - January 8, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda, Sulagna and special guest Lisa Martin, the CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into how robots that need to interact with physical environments will be built more cost effectively following a CES keynote from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
Then, the gang turns its attent...
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Techstrong Gang - April 4, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and guest The Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman dive into the challenges Intel faces as a national treasure. Then the gang turns its attention to the impact artificial intelligence (AI) is having on climate change before trying to determine whether large language models (L...
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Techstrong Gang June 11, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guests Tracy Bannon and Stephen Foskett, President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, dive into why agile development methodologies are being thrown under the proverbial bus before discussing what’s required for modern CIOs to succeed....
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Techstrong Gang - June 4, 2024
Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Tracy Bannon consider all the good things that AI might accomplish before they turn their attention to the energy challenges the IT industry faces as workloads become more data intensive. Then, the gang turns its attention to how cybersecurity is portrayed in...
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Techstrong Gang - November 21, 2024
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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Techstrong Gang - January 9, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Anne Ahola Ward, CEO of CircleClick Media, dive into why billions of dollars are being invested in generative artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. Then, they discuss an effort led by president-elect Trump that promises to pour $20 billion into the const...
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Techstrong Gang - July 3, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Daniel Newman, The Futurum Group CEO, and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development at The Futurum Group, dive into the technological chaos that will reign in the wake of a Supreme Court decision to limit the power of Federal agencies. Then, th...
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Techstrong Gang - July 10, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Guy Currier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, discuss whether it is nobler to build artificial intelligence (AI) models or simply invoke models that already exist. Then, they move on to the underappreciated need for faster networks i...
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Techstrong Gang - January 16, 2025
Mike, Jon and special guest Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the merit and potential impact of a TikTok ban.
Then, the gang turns its attention to robotics research and development underway at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) before providing a retrospective on CES.
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Techstrong Gang - January 20, 2025
Mike, Mitch and special guests Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visual Impact arm of The Futurum Group, discuss how less cybersecurity training is being provided to developers, even as DevSecOps progress continues to be made. Then, they discuss the trouble with patch management.
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Techstrong Gang - November 11, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests John Willis and Tracy Ragan dive into the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) agents can take on software engineering tasks.
Then, they discuss if AI models are more or less secure than any other type of software artifact. Finally, the gang turns it...
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Techstrong Gang - December 17, 2024
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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Techstrong Gang - October 21, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Chris Blask and Tracy Ragan discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) agents might soon resolve our DevSecOps issues once and for all.
Then, the gang turns its attention to why the U.S. Army is helping small businesses to implement best cybersecurity practices ...
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Techstrong Gang - October 17, 2024
Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Hope Lynch take stock of the x86 alliance between Intel and AMD before discussing how a joint effort led by Lenovo and NVIDIA might reduce the energy needed to power artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Then, the gang examines what BMC Software is up to n...
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Techstrong Gang - November 7, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into whether more IT workers should unionize.
Then, the gang turns its attention to how the troubles Super Micro is encountering is starting to impact IT organizations before discus...
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Techstrong Gang - April 23, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch and Amanda ponder the future of open source software security now that it’s become apparent cybercriminals are posing as legitimate contributors to sabotage projects. Then, they discuss how Cisco is using AI, eBPF and digital twins to improve application security. Finally, the g...
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Techstrong Gang – June 18, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, dive into the extraordinary testimony before Congress where Microsoft president Brad Smith admits the company has major cybersecurity issues. Then the gang turns its a...
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Techstrong Gang - June 28, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor, and Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, dive into how an Oracle move to embed large language models (LLMs) into its databases will change the way artificial intelligence (AI) applications ar...
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Techstrong Gang - November 13, 2024
Alan and Mike are at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon 2024 conference to launch PlatformEngineering.com, a new website from Techstrong Group that is dedicated to fostering adoption of an emerging methodology for managing software engineering, and maybe one day all of IT operations, at scale.
Then, t...