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 - September 5, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the probability that cloud computing costs will rise, as demand continues to outstrip data center capacity. Then, they delve into the implications of an investigation of NVIDIA that has been laun...

  • Techstrong Gang - September 3, 2024

    Mike, Jon and special guests Chris Blask and Tracy Ragan dive into the latest developments surrounding the CrowdStrike outage, including $60 million worth of credits being offered to customers.

    Then, the gang shifts its focus to concerns about malware being implanted in drones manufactured in Ch...

  • Techstrong Gang - September 17, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, delve into the next wave of forthcoming artificial intelligence (AI) advances before diving into the latest sustainability report from Meta.

    Then, the gang turns its attention t...

  • Techstrong Gang - September 18, 2024

    Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guests Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development for The Futurum Group, and Steven Dickens, a chief technology advisor for the The Futurum Group, dive into the degree to which composable headless cloud services might one day make IT infrastructure i...

  • Techstrong Gang - September 19, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Hope Lynch dive into a study that finds there haven't been any significant DevOps productivity gains from investments in generative artificial intelligence (AI).

    Then, the gang turns its attention to the AI agent strategy being adopted by Salesforce with ...

  • Techstrong Gang - September 10, 2024

    Mike, Jon, Bonnie and special guests Anne Ahola Ward and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, talk about the rise of AI PCs before discussing the impact AI will have on sustainability.

    Then, the gang turns its attention to the impact AI is having on labor ne...

  • Techstrong Gang - September 26, 2024

    Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Mark Hinkle and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into a debate that is raging over the business value of investments being made in generative artificial intelligence (AI).

    Then, the gang reviews a Congressional hearing th...

  • Techstrong Gang - September 9, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Tracy Ragan and David Nicholson, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the details of a lawsuit filed by AT&T against Broadcom, which alleges changes to the VMware support contracts are an illegal threat to its business.

    Then, the gang del...

  • Techstrong Gang - September 6, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Lisa Martin, CMO at The Futurum Group, and Guy Currier, CTO of Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, delve into the degree to which operations of all types can be managed as code. Then, they delve into whether the well-known DevOps Loop doesn’t actually...

  • Techstrong Gang - September 20, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into what the interest rate cut instituted by The Federal Reserve Bank means for IT.

    Then, the gang discusses how generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming technical marketing before discussing how Will...

  • Techstrong Gang - September 24, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the rise of edge computing following the latest Tech Field Day event.

    Then, the gang delves into the implications of using nuclear energy to power the data centers needed to enable...

  • Techstrong Gang - September 30, 2024

    In today's Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mitch Ashley, Tracy Ragan, Hope Lynch and Guy Currier get together and discuss the intent of the FTC to crack down on deceptive advertising that uses AI. They also discuss President Biden's speech at the UN, which warns of the profound risks of AI. Finally...

  • Techstrong Gang - December 16, 2024

    Alan, Mike and special guests John Willis, Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, debate the degree to which application development is going through a Renaissance period thanks to the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) before discussing how...

  • Techstrong Gang - September 27, 2024

    In today's Techstrong Gang, gang members Alan Shimel, Jon Swartz, Mitchell Ashley and new gang member Anne Ahola Ward discuss Google filing an anti-trust suit against Microsoft in the EU, Cloudflare celebrating its birthday with new offerings to stop the AI bots (among other things) and how Sieme...

  • Techstrong Gang - August 20, 2024

  • Techstrong Gang - August 28, 2024

    Hosts Jon Swartz and Amanda Razani are joined by guests Hope Lynch and Cory Johnson, chief market strategist at The Futurum Group, to discuss the detention of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov. They also talk about DevOps in the Age of SaaS and a professor that is suing Facebook for right to u...

  • Techstrong Gang - August 27, 2024

    Mike and special guests John Willis, Guy Currier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit of The Futurum Group, dive into how IT budgets for 2025 are shaping up. Then, they delve into how much Wall Street might be und...

  • Techstrong Gang - August 2, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Lisa Martin, CMO Adviser for The Futurum Group, and Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst for application development at The Futurum Group, discuss the implications of the European Union AI Act before diving into the impact AI is having on sales and marketing. The...

  • Techstrong Gang - August 21, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Amanda, Jon and Steven Dickens, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the reasons why AMD is plunking down $4.9 billion to acquire ZT Systems.

    Then, the gang turns its attention to an Open Source Software Prevalence Initiative launched by the White House before ...

  • Techstrong Gang - August 30, 2024

    Host Jon Swartz and guests Hope Lynch, Lisa Martin and Guy Currier discuss how sustainable an AI spending boom might be, the AI processor wars, and the true meaning of responsible AI.

  • Techstrong Gang - August 16, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss how cyberattacks are being used to target the Trump and Harris presidential campaigns. Then, they dive into what technologies will be needed to thwart Deep Fake attacks by tracking the provenance of c...

  • Techstrong Gang - August 6, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Bonnie delve into the state of cybersecurity at the start of the annual Black Hat conference this week. Then, the gang turns its attention to the future of the mainframe and the rise of quantum computing.

  • Techstrong Gang - August 23, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Paul Nashawaty, practice leader for application development at The Futurum Group, and Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, debate the degree to which application developers might, thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), no longer need to write code following som...

  • Techstrong Gang - August 26, 2024

    Alan, Mike, Jon and special guest Tracy Ragan mourn the impending demise of the Windows Control Panel. Then, they dive into the degree to which generative artificial intelligence (AI) might enable governments to better serve the needs of the citizen.

    Finally, the gang turns its attention to how ...