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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, 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.

Alan Shimel along with Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz and The Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman discuss the volatility of today's stock market and Intel's jobs cuts.

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...

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...

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...