Alan, Mike, Mitch, Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, delve into the degree to which organizations might actually be willing to move off VMware following its acquisition by Broadcom.

Then, the gang ...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guests Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, and Steven Dickens, vice president and practice leader for hybrid cloud, infrastructure, and operations at the Futurum Group, debate the degree to which a cloud oligopoly ex...

Mike, Amanda, Bonnie and special guest John Willis discuss the impact generative artificial intelligence (AI) will have on IT professionals before diving into the degree to which organizations are actually prepared to embrace it.
Then, the gang takes a look at the latest large language model (LLM...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, discuss the future of Wiz now that a potential acquisition of the provider of a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) is now apparently off the table.

Then, the gang turns it a...

Mike, Mitch and Chris Blask examine the degree to which CrowdStrike will be able to recover from the Windows outage debacle. Then, the gang takes a look at the privacy implications of a Google decision to not eliminate cookies and a decision by Oracle to cough up $115 million to settle a digital ...

Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guests Mark Hinkle and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development for The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of an artificial intelligence (AI) alliance between Salesforce and Workday.

Then, they examine what can be done to make AI models ru...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, examine a recent ruling that limits the scope of the case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against SolarWinds. Then, they discuss the degree to which M...

Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Tracy Bannon, John Willis and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for data infrastructure at The Futurum Group, dive into the root causes and downstream impact of a catastrophic Windows outage caused by a CrowdStrike update. Then, the gang turns its att...

Mike, Mitch, Jon and Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, dive into how the geopolitics of chip manufacturing is likely to impact IT organizations before examining the relationship between high interest rates and the pace of innovation. Then, the gang turns its attention t...

Mike, Bonnie, Jon and special guests Mark Hinkle and Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst for The Futurum Group, dive into the current state of the artificial intelligence (AI) hype cycle.

Then, they discuss whether the ability to build applications faster than ever using AI might turn out to be t...

Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Chris Blask, explore why Google might be buying Wiz, a provider of a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). Then, they take a look at the root causes of a raft of breaches involving cloud platforms such as Snowflake. Finally, the gang turns its...

Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Guy Currier, CTO for Visual Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, look into at the current state of observability before discussing why, all of sudden, more focus than ever on bringing compute to the data is creating a need for enterprise architects. Then, the gang turns it...

Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Tracy Ragan and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development at The Futurum Group, dive into the latest artificial intelligence (AI) advances being made by Amazon Web Services (AWS) before taking a look at the sorry state of application programming...

Mike, Mitch, and special guests Chris Blask, Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into whether a generative artificial intelligence (AI) bubble is about to burst. Then, the gang turns its attention to the evolving ro...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Jon delve into the implications of an apparent failure by the Cyber Safety Review Board to fully review the SolarWinds attack in 2021.
Then, the gang dives into why more progress hasn’t been made in the realm of Industrial DevOps before highlighting the need for incr...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Guy Currier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, discuss whether it is nobler to build artificial intelligence (AI) models or simply invoke models that already exist. Then, they move on to the underappreciated need for faster networks i...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, discuss the state of disaster recovery at the start of the hurricane season.
Then, the gang turns its attention to whether machine learning operations (MLOps) is a dis...

Alan, Mike, Jon and special guest Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, delve into the degree that small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) before diving into the state of Tesla prior to a forthcoming launch of a robotaxi service. T...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Daniel Newman, The Futurum Group CEO, and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development at The Futurum Group, dive into the technological chaos that will reign in the wake of a Supreme Court decision to limit the power of Federal agencies. Then, th...

Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Tracy Bannon and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit of The Futurum Group, discuss how an IT project involving the British Post Office could have gone so wrong. Then, they shine a spotlight on the lack of cyber resiliency in the wake o...

Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Tracy Ragan evaluate the economics of information in the age of artificial intelligence. Then, they dive into a Futurum Research report that finds nearly half of organizations expect to be moving to new platforms as AI is operationalized. Finally, the gang takes...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor, and Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, dive into how an Oracle move to embed large language models (LLMs) into its databases will change the way artificial intelligence (AI) applications ar...

In today's Techstrong Gang, Techstrong CEO Alan Shimel is joined by fellow gang members Mitch Ashley, Jon Swartz, Lisa Martin and Bonnie Schneider. The gang discusses the recent actions by the EU against Microsoft around bundling Teams as part of Office 365.

Next up, the gang looks at the recen...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Steve Dickens, a chief technology advisor for cloud infrastructure at The Futurum Group, dive into how the management of IT infrastructure will need to evolve in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Then, they discuss the degree to which IT organiza...