Alan, Mike, Bonnie, Jon and special guests Chris Blask and Hope Lynch dive into the state of software supply chains before discussing a technology advance from McAfee that makes it possible to detect deep fakes. Then, the gang turns its attention to a growing 'right to repair' movement that is ga...

Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest David Nicholson, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the extent to which sticker shock is slowing down the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise. Then, they discuss if data management in the AI era is beco...

In this special edition of Techstrong Gang, Mitch Ashley, Jon Swartz and Alan Shimel check in live from the Las Vegas scene of the Black Hat hacking conference. Mitch, Alan and Jon give you a bird's-eye view of what the themes and big stories are at this year’s Black Hat. If you didn’t make it ou...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Jon dive into what’s driving a rising level of skepticism about investments in artificial intelligence (AI) before discussing the degree to which generative AI might be increasing burnout among employees.

Then, the gang turns its attention to the technologies revol...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guests Mark Hinkle and Ryan Shrout, president of Signal65, an independent testing laboratory, dive into the impact artificial intelligence (AI) will have on smartphones following the launch of the Pixel 9 smartphone from Google. Then, they delve into suggesti...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, dive into the state of digital business transformation at the dawn of the artificial intelligence era.

Then, the gang turns its attention to cybersecurity advances th...

Mike, Mitch and special guests Chris Blask and Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into latest claims being made by Microsoft, CrowdStrike and Delta Airlines in the wake of a massive Windows outage before discussing the state of open source security.

Then, the gang turns its att...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the degree to which public clouds are giving IT teams post-traumatic stress disorder following comments made by Broadcom CEO Hock Tan.

Then, the gang dives into how OpenStack is evolving be...

Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Tracy Ragan and John Willis dive into what it means to be an artificial intelligence (AI) developer before taking a look at a framework that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created to test AI models.
Then, the gang discusses the imp...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests John Willis and Tracy Ragan take a look at just how open source many of the large language models (LLMs) that are being made available are. Then, the gang dives into the all the CrowdStrike lawsuits that are being filed before discussing the overall state...

Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests John Willis, Tracy Ragan and Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst for application development for The Futurum Group, dive into the sorry state of the images and other types of content being generated by generative artificial intelligence tools such as Grok-2 from ...

Mike, Mitch, Amanda and David Nicholson, a chief technology adviser for The Futurum Group, dive into some new Techstrong Research that surfaces the degree to which DevOps teams are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) (in a way Rush fans might uniquely appreciate).

Then, they delve into how A...

Alan, Mike, Jon and Lisa Martin, the CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the implications of a $6.5B acquisition of a hardware company founded by legendary Apple designer Jony Ive that made by OpenAI before delving in an ambitious agentic artificial intelligence (AI) initiative launched by...

At the 2025 RSAC Conference, Mitch Ashley, Jon Swartz and Lisa Martin discuss the crucial role MCP servers play in AI deployment, raising significant security concerns that require effective monitoring. Then, they highlight how cyber resilience is essential for companies to withstand attacks, wit...

Mike, Mitch and special guest Tracy Bannon dive into how AI is about to transform DevOps workflows, before discussing the revival of internal developer portals (IDPs). Then, the gang turns its attention to the obsession some organizations are having with “golden templates” that might not go over ...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Lisa Martin, host of the CMO Advisor, an arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the need to disclose how much artificial intelligence (AI) was used to create content such as political ads, before exploring the impact AI will have on call centers. Then, the gang turns it...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Amanda dive into the degree to which a rebellion against NVIDIA is brewing before revisiting the latest flareup in the Linux distribution wars.
Then, the gang turns its attention to the impact generative artificial intelligence (AI) is about to have on the long simmering ten...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guests Daniel Newman, CEO of The Futurum Group, and Chris Blask, discuss Oracle’s move to Nashville from Austin. Then, the gang dives into how Docker Hub became a vehicle for distributing malicious content before trying to make sense of the Federal government’s effo...

In this special edition of the Techstrong Gang, Alan and Mitch join up with the Infrastructure Matters podcast crew to discuss a "cloud cold war" brewing in China, the latest on "sovereign clouds" and managed hosting, and finally the big IBM/Palo Alto deal in security and AI.

On this special edition of Techstrong Gang, recorded at RSAC 2024 in San Francisco, Alan Shimel, Mitch Ashley, Chris Blask (Cybeats), Sharyn Fitzpatrick (Sysdig) and Mark Miller (Sourced Network Productions) recap the highlights from this year's 2024 RSAC (AI to the left, to the right, everywhere...

In this episode, the Techstrong Gang welcomes Stephen Foskett of The Futurum Group/Tech Field Day to the show. Stephen joins Alan and Mitchell to discuss the results of a recent DevOps survey from Harness, which seems to say there is a lot of room for improvement in CI/CD. Next up is "It's 10pm d...

Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Tracy Ragan and Jack Poller dive into the state of open source software security in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) before delving into why OpenAI is looking to replace GitHub with its own repository.

Then the gang takes a look at a Tech Corp initiative launched ...