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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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 ...

Alan, Mike and Bonnie dive into the latest developments in the open source software wars, before diving into the latest trends in climate technology.
Then, the Techstrong Gang discusses the implications of using artificial intelligence (AI) to create digital images of people that can speak like t...

Techstrong Gang members Stephen Foskett, Bonnie Schneider and Alan Shimel discuss the tech industry's call for a "Great American Firewall" to keep competing technologies out. Then, the gang looks at the DOJ lawsuit -- still in effect as of today -- aiming to block HPE's acquisition of Juniper Net...

On the Techstrong Gang, Alan, Mitch and Bonnie Schneider are joined by Mark Hinkle. We discuss what havoc AI might create in the current election cycle (https://techstrong.ai/articles/welcome-to-the-generative-ai-election-era/ ). Are LLMs out of the reach for most organizations? Are they too com...

Mike, Amanda, Jon and special guests Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development for The Futurum Group, and Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the degree to which the current shortage of graphics processing units (GPUs) is impacting the artificial intelligence (...

Join the gang on today’s discussions, including “putting the bomb in SBOM," and how it could forever change supply chains. Next, the FTC said what many of us have been thinking all these years -- large social media and streaming providers have been eavesdropping on us.

Finally, we tackle the pr...

Alan, Mike and special guests Hope Lynch and Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst for The Futurum Group, dive into the multiple challenges facing Intel, as the company ponders multiple investment and acquisition options.

Then, the gang turns its attention to where all the software engineering jobs ...

Mike, Jon and special guests Hope Lynch and David Nicholson, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss how Oracle drives to embrace and extend generative artificial intelligence (AI) while making peace with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Then, the gang dives into the Apple AI strateg...

At JFrog's 10th annual SwampUP event, Alan and Mike discuss the integration of AI, DevOps, and security, with a focus on how AI models are becoming central to DevOps workflows and version control. JFrog's new partnerships, such as with Nvidia, and product launches like runtime security for Kubern...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Hope Lynch dive into the forces driving platform engineering adoption before delving into how algorithms are being used to allegedly enable new forms of monopolistic behavior.

Then, the gain discusses the impact artificial intelligence (AI) is having on cultur...