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.

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 ...

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...

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.

Alan, Mike and Mitch, live at the AWS re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas, dive into everything from Nova foundational models that were unfurled to the latest extensions of Amazon Q Developer that promise to make it simpler to modernize legacy applications.

Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guest Mark Hinkle debate the real state of DevOps in the enterprise before diving into exactly how artificial intelligence (AI) is being applied to application development. Then the discussion turns to what parts of the machine learning operations (MLOps) workflow s...

Mike, Mitch and special guest Chris Blask dive into the breach debacle involving Snowflake and TicketMaster before turning their attention to the role the FBI should be playing in securing IT environments. Finally, in the wake of the Fortinet move to acquire Lacework the distinction between tools...

Mike and special guest John Willis discuss the potential merits of an investigation into the relationships between Microsoft, Open AI and NVIDIA that is being purportedly led by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Then they turn their attention to the 10th anniversary of Kubernetes before dis...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Tracy Ragan identify the forces driving a wave of alliances and acquisitions across the DevOps landscape. Then, Alan and Mitch share their experiences at a Tech Field Day event that focused on application development trends.

Alan, Mike, Amanda and guest Tracy Bannon dive into how much DevSecOps progress is actually being made before debating the merits of GitOps as a separate distinct methodology.
Finally, the impact artificial intelligence (AI) will have on application testing is expected to be profound, but how lon...

Alan, Mitch and special guest Savannah Peterson of Savvy Millennial wrap up KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 from Paris. The gang talks about the origins of OpenTofu and how it's revitalizing IaC, Spacelift's scalable infrastructure-as-code and policy, and how that fits into the DevOps workflow. Fin...

Alan Shimel, Amanda Razani and John Willis discuss the rollout of small language models by Microsoft and Apple, as well as the benefits of smaller models to the enterprise, before contemplating the impact AI is having on networking. Additionally, they talk about OpenTelemetry and whether or not i...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Anne Ahola Ward and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for the The Futurum Group, dive into the current state of cybersecurity as outlined during the Black Hat Europe 2024 conference. Then, they discuss the rise of drones as a security concern following a wave of e...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, delve into the degree to which organizations might actually be willing to move off VMware following its acquisition by Broadcom.

Then, the gang ...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Lisa Martin debate the degree to which agentic artificial intelligence (AI) might one day soon make application developers obsolete. Then, they discuss whether society may become too dependent on AI for emotional support, even to the point of being a surro...

Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Stephen Foskett, president of The Tech Field Day unit of The Futurum Group, delve into the state of wireless networking following an event hosted last week.

Then, the gang turns its attention to how object storage systems are evolving in a way that might eliminate the nee...

Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guests Mark Hinkle and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development for The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of an artificial intelligence (AI) alliance between Salesforce and Workday.

Then, they examine what can be done to make AI models ru...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Chris Blask divulge the backstory of the DevOps Dozen 2025 awards presented at the Predict conference yesterday. They also dive into the thought process behind the new Inevitability Curve video interview series hosted by Chris.

Then, the gang turns its...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the European Union’s (EU) ban on artificial intelligence (AI) systems that pose unacceptable risks before discussing how a mobile application dubbed Hiya is using AI to thwart robocalls and other scams.

Then,...

Alan, Mike, Jon, Amanda and Guy Gurrier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, discuss how global trade tensions with China will impact IT. Then, they discuss the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting healthcare insurance in the wake of the tragic murder of the ...

Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Chris Blask dive into a report that finds a surprisingly large number of DevOps teams have launched a sustainability initiative before turning their attention to how data centers might one day be powered by nuclear energy.

Then, the gang discusses how law en...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Anne Ahola Ward discuss the likelihood that an FTC rule requiring providers of applications and services to make cancellations simple will be enacted later this year.

Then, the gang turns its attention to AI advances being made in healthcare and, finally,...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guests Guy Currier, CTO 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 why leaders of the technology industry are making a concerted effort to curry favor with the inco...