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 - December 19, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of a digital labor workforce enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Then, they debate how popular NVIDIA's $249 developer kit for building AI applications might be thi...

  • Techstrong Gang - November 8, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Anne Ahola Ward and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the role social media and marketing automation played in the presidential election.

    Then, the gang turns its attention to demand for people that have artificial intelligence (AI) expe...

  • Techstrong Gang - May 16, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guest Steve Dickens, vice president and practice lead for The Futurum Group, discuss changes at the helm of Amazon Web Services (AWS) before diving into how the relationship between Elon Musk and Oracle is evolving.
    Next, the Gang takes a hard look at what Google is...

  • Techstrong Gang - October 2, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Hope Lynch dive into a DevOps Next report from Techstrong Research, which finds growing interest in investing in tools and platforms to accelerate the pace of application development.

    Then, the gang turns its attention to the concerns cybersecurity professiona...

  • Techstrong Gang - October 10, 2024

    In today's episode, the gang is in San Diego covering Qualys Security Conference. At QSC, Alan meets with Qualys to discuss the new TruRisk management ROC (Risk Operations Center). They also discuss the challenges of disaster recovery in the era of extreme climate change and the Nobel Prize commi...

  • Techstrong Gang - October 9, 2024

    Alan, Mike and special guests Hope Lynch and Chris Blask discuss the extent to which generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents are about to transform the way everyone works before diving into the paradox that cloud computing has become.

    Then, the gang turns its attention to the outsized rol...

  • Techstrong Gang - May 14, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch and Amanda see a need for more transparency into cloud computing costs before diving into how artificial intelligence (AI) tools might turn everyone into an application developer. Then the gang turns its attention to the $2.1 billion spinoff of the Software Integrity Group (SIG)...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 1, 2024

    Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and guest Mark Hinkle dive into the state of the artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem before discussing how real platform engineering as a formal best practice of managing DevOps has become.
    Finally, chief sustainability officers are starting to make their presence felt but ...

  • Techstrong Gang - February 6, 2025

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and gang members Anne Ahola Ward and Camberley Bates debate the degree to which technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) might be able to augment or even replace referees and umpires.

    Then, the gang turns its attention to whether AI in its current form is too diff...

  • Techstrong Gang - December 5, 2024

    Today’s Techstrong Gang is a bit different -- it is an intimate lineup of just Alan Shimel and Jon Swartz in person from the Techstrong TV studio at AWS re:Invent. Jon and Alan discuss what AWS's end goal is and assumptions they are making that are driving many of the product and service announce...

  • Techstrong Gang - November 19, 2024

    In today’s Techstrong Gang, Alan, Bonnie Schneider and Stephen Foskett discuss the recent AppDev Tech Field Day, which took place at KubeCon. The gang also discusses a recent article on DevOps.com showing DevOps engineers are reaching management-level status faster than other IT workers. Finally,...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 29, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Tracy Ragan debate the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) might one day improve application security. Then, they dive into what motivated NVIDIA to buy a company that makes it possible to use graphical processor units (GPUs) more efficiently. Addition...

  • Techstrong Gang - June 27, 2024

    In today's Techstrong Gang, Techstrong CEO Alan Shimel is joined by fellow gang members Mitch Ashley, Jon Swartz, Lisa Martin and Bonnie Schneider. The gang discusses the recent actions by the EU against Microsoft around bundling Teams as part of Office 365.

    Next up, the gang looks at the recen...

  • Techstrong Gang - October 7, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Chris Blask and Tracy Ragan dive into a Techstrong Research report that suggests more DevSecOps progress is being made than is generally appreciated.

    Then, the gang discusses the rate of DevOps progress being made in mainframe environments before deliberating...

  • Techstrong Gang - April 22, 2024

    In today's Earth Day-themed episode of the Techstrong Gang, Bonnie Schneider and Mike Vizard discuss the environmental challenges and sustainability initiatives. They kick off the conversation with a look at the history and global significance of Earth Day, focusing on this year's anti-plastic in...

  • Techstrong Gang - February 3, 2025

    Alan, Mike and Techstrong Gang members Tracy Ragan, Tracy Bannon, and Guy Currier, CTO of Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, debate the degree to which organizations should be using large language models (LLMs), such as DeepSeek, that were created in China, before discussing the impact ...

  • Techstrong Gang - January 30, 2025

    In this special episode of Techstrong Gang, recorded live at AI Field Day in San Jose, Jon is joined by co-host Stephen Foskett and special guests Gina Rosenthal of Digital Sunshine Solutions and John Willis. They start with a behind-the-scenes look at what Tech Field Day means to them and why it...

  • Techstrong Gang - January 22, 2025

    In today’s Techstrong Gang, we discuss the open warfare in the WordPress community and the possibility of a fork of the CMS that runs more than 40% of websites. Then, we debate whether apathy has taken hold regarding cyberbreaches and explore if Allstate has been spying on drivers without permiss...

  • Techstrong Gang - November 22, 2024

    In today's Techstrong Gang, Alan is joined by Jon Swartz and Camberley Bates. The gang discusses Microsoft’s announcement about getting serious about security — again. Camberley provides an update on the SC24 conference, which she attended. Finally, they discuss Elon Musk's lawsuit to prevent a C...

  • Techstrong Gang - January 31, 2025

    In our second special episode of Techstrong Gang, recorded live at AI Field Day in San Jose, Mitch is joined by co-host Stephen Foskett and special guests Gina Rosenthal of Digital Sunshine Solutions and John Willis. The panel first considers the VMware private AI platform from Broadcom and the G...

  • Techstrong Gang - December 12, 2024

    In today's Techstrong Gang, Alan is joined by Jon Swartz and Lisa Martin. They discuss the recently announced merger of Omnicon and Interpublic advertising agencies. What impact did AI have on this? What about big tech? The gang also dives into the "scheme issues" with the latest model from OpenA...

  • Techstrong Gang - January 14, 2025

    In today's Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mitch Ashley, Bonnie Schneider, Stephen Foskett, Jon Swartz and Sulagna Saha discuss how tech has been deployed to help fight the catastrophic fires in the Los Angeles area.

    Next, the gang turns their attention to a recent report by Bonnie Schneider on E...

  • Techstrong Gang - December 3, 2024

    In today’s Techstrong Gang, Alan is in Las Vegas with Camberley Bates for AWS re:Invent. They are joined by Jon Swartz and Bonnie Schneider to discuss the “retirement” of Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, and what it means. Then, they discuss the FTC opening an investigation of Microsoft, and lastly, ...

  • Techstrong Gang - October 15, 2024

    In this episode of Techstrong Gang, Stephen Foskett, Bonnie Schneider and Alan Shimel discuss AMD's bold plans in the AI computing space and how realistic they are. The gang also examines the market's reluctance to upgrade to Windows 11, despite it being nearly 4 years old and Windows 10 support ...