Alan, along with Mitch, Mike and special guest Guy Currier, discuss KubeCon attendance and vendor satisfaction. They highlight the growth of the open source community and debate the sustainability of business models. Lastly, they explore impact of AI on software engagement, suggesting shifts in t...

At KubeCon 2024, Alan Shimel and the Techstrong Gang discuss Kubernetes’ shift from a specialized, cloud-native tool to an essential platform for a wide range of applications, from data centers to edge computing. They highlight the industry’s efforts to make Kubernetes more accessible, as well as...

Alan and Mike are at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon 2024 conference to launch PlatformEngineering.com, a new website from Techstrong Group that is dedicated to fostering adoption of an emerging methodology for managing software engineering, and maybe one day all of IT operations, at scale.

Then, t...

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 and special guests John Willis and Tracy Ragan dive into the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) agents can take on software engineering tasks.

Then, they discuss if AI models are more or less secure than any other type of software artifact. Finally, the gang turns it...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into whether more IT workers should unionize.

Then, the gang turns its attention to how the troubles Super Micro is encountering is starting to impact IT organizations before discus...

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...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guests Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the growing influence technology issues are having on the presidential election.

Then, the gang turns ...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Tracy Ragan and Chris Blask dive into the state of election security as U.S. citizens head to the polls.

Then, the gang turns its attention to what is really required to achieve cyber resiliency. Finally, they discuss the degree to which the application progr...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, and Guy Currier, CTO of Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, dive into why the relationship between IT and the rest of the business is finally changing for the better.

Then, they discuss what busin...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Jon discuss how investments in artificial intelligence (AI) by football teams such as the Dallas Cowboys will drive the next era of online gambling.

Then, the gang turns its attention to the challenges DevOps teams are encountering as they embrace observability. Finally, th...

Alan, Mike, Jon, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of The Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, discuss how cloud computing is evolving following an event held last week.

Then, the gang turns its attention to how artificial intelligence (AI) is being applied to weather forec...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Hope Lynch and Tracy Ragan dive into the state of coding in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Then, they discuss the implications of the U.S. government's efforts to define a national security policy for the AI era.

Finally, the gang turns its attentio...

Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, Lisa Martin, the CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, and Guy Currier, CTO of Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, delve into what an expected upturn in the economy might mean for IT.

The...

Mike, Mitch, Jon, Anne Ahola Ward, CEO of CircleClick Media, and Guy Currier, CTO of the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the rise of Qualcomm as a disruptive force in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Then, they discuss the degree to which AI is actually increasing at th...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Chris Blask and Hope Lynch assess the potential impact of deepfakes on the presidential election before discussing the rapid use of quantum computers to crack encryption in the wake of recent research from China. Then, the gang discusses who is going to take c...

Mike, Jon, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, discuss the state of cybersecurity following a recent event.
Then, the gang dives into the rise of DataOps in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) before providing some tips on how to...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Chris Blask and Tracy Ragan discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) agents might soon resolve our DevSecOps issues once and for all.

Then, the gang turns its attention to why the U.S. Army is helping small businesses to implement best cybersecurity practices ...

In this episode of Techstrong Gang, Jon Swartz, Mitch Ashley and Guy Currier dive into the hot topics shaking up the tech landscape. Has AI lost its halo? Our experts debate the implications of this shift in AI governance. The gang also explores the growing concerns around biometrics — are we mov...

Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Hope Lynch take stock of the x86 alliance between Intel and AMD before discussing how a joint effort led by Lenovo and NVIDIA might reduce the energy needed to power artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

Then, the gang examines what BMC Software is up to n...

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 ...

Mike and Jon, along with special guests Tracy Ragan, Tracy Bannon, and John Willis, discuss when we might actually be able to hail a cyber cab, which Elon Musk launched last week with much fanfare. Then, the gang assesses the state of women in STEM fields following a report published by MetLife, ...

Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Hope Lynch and Lisa Martin, the CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the dramatic increase in fraud likely to be perpetrated using generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Then, the gang turns its attention to the emerging battle over integrat...

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...