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 - October 11, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Hope Lynch and Lisa Martin, the CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the dramatic increase in fraud likely to be perpetrated using generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Then, the gang turns its attention to the emerging battle over integrat...

  • Techstrong Gang - July 26, 2024

    Mike, Mitch and Chris Blask examine the degree to which CrowdStrike will be able to recover from the Windows outage debacle. Then, the gang takes a look at the privacy implications of a Google decision to not eliminate cookies and a decision by Oracle to cough up $115 million to settle a digital ...

  • Techstrong Gang - November 5, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guests Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the growing influence technology issues are having on the presidential election.

    Then, the gang turns ...

  • Techstrong Gang - January 29, 2025

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Lisa Martin, the CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss claims that artificial intelligence (AI) will ultimately reduce wages to the point of causing economic collapse. Then, they revisit the controversy surrounding the DeepSeek AI large language mo...

  • Techstrong Gang - July 16, 2024

    Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Guy Currier, CTO for Visual Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, look into at the current state of observability before discussing why, all of sudden, more focus than ever on bringing compute to the data is creating a need for enterprise architects. Then, the gang turns it...

  • Techstrong Gang – June 13, 2024

    Mike, Bonnie and special guest Mark Hinkle dive into the artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives revealed this week by Apple, including the sustainability implications, before delving into how AI is about to change the way we learn. Then the gang turns its attention to how AI might soon change t...

  • Techstrong Gang - January 27, 2025

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Sulagna and special guests Chris Blask and Tracy Ragan dive into the implications recent executive orders issued by President Trump will have on cybersecurity before discussing whether sanctions are an effective method for punishing cybercriminals.

    Then, the gang turns its att...

  • Techstrong Gang - July 19, 2024

    Mike, Mitch, Jon and Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, dive into how the geopolitics of chip manufacturing is likely to impact IT organizations before examining the relationship between high interest rates and the pace of innovation. Then, the gang turns its attention t...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 8, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Bonnie and guest John Willis dive into how much of a potential threat superhuman artificial intelligence (AI) actually represents before musing about the impact millions of drones delivering good might have on society.
    Finally, the gang turns its attention once again to climate change...

  • Techstrong Gang - October 8, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guests Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, following a Tech Field Day event, dive into the IT infrastructure challenges organizations are facing as they emb...

  • Techstrong Gang - June 26, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Steve Dickens, a chief technology advisor for cloud infrastructure at The Futurum Group, dive into how the management of IT infrastructure will need to evolve in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Then, they discuss the degree to which IT organiza...

  • Techstrong Gang - July 18, 2024

    Mike, Bonnie, Jon and special guests Mark Hinkle and Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst for The Futurum Group, dive into the current state of the artificial intelligence (AI) hype cycle.

    Then, they discuss whether the ability to build applications faster than ever using AI might turn out to be t...

  • Techstrong Gang - October 25, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, Lisa Martin, the CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, and Guy Currier, CTO of Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, delve into what an expected upturn in the economy might mean for IT.

    The...

  • Techstrong Gang - July 2, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Tracy Bannon and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit of The Futurum Group, discuss how an IT project involving the British Post Office could have gone so wrong. Then, they shine a spotlight on the lack of cyber resiliency in the wake o...

  • Techstrong Gang - January 10, 2025

    Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Chris Blask and Lisa Martin, the CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, delve deeper into the latest advanced technologies debuting this week at CES.

    Then, the gang turns its attention to a breach of the online store run by the Green Bay Packers that involved an at...

  • Techstrong Gang - December 9, 2024

    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...

  • Techstrong Gang - January 7, 2025

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into how copyright might be protected in the age of generative artificial intelligence (AI) following the signing of an agreement between Anthropic and the music publishing ...

  • Techstrong Gang - November 1, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, and Guy Currier, CTO of Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, dive into why the relationship between IT and the rest of the business is finally changing for the better.

    Then, they discuss what busin...

  • Techstrong Gang - December 10, 2024

    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...

  • Techstrong Gang - July 22, 2024

    Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Tracy Bannon, John Willis and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for data infrastructure at The Futurum Group, dive into the root causes and downstream impact of a catastrophic Windows outage caused by a CrowdStrike update. Then, the gang turns its att...

  • Techstrong Gang - January 28, 2025

    Alan, Mike, Bonnie, Sulagna and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the claims being made by DeepSeek AI concerning a new way to drastically lower the cost of training large language models (LLMs).

    Then, the gang turns its attention ...

  • Techstrong Gang - July 17, 2024

    Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Chris Blask, explore why Google might be buying Wiz, a provider of a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). Then, they take a look at the root causes of a raft of breaches involving cloud platforms such as Snowflake. Finally, the gang turns its...

  • Techstrong Gang - July 15, 2024

    Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Tracy Ragan and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development at The Futurum Group, dive into the latest artificial intelligence (AI) advances being made by Amazon Web Services (AWS) before taking a look at the sorry state of application programming...

  • Techstrong Gang - October 29, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Jon, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of The Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, discuss how cloud computing is evolving following an event held last week.

    Then, the gang turns its attention to how artificial intelligence (AI) is being applied to weather forec...