Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie, Jon and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, discuss the arrival of the cloud-native application era. Then, they dive into why Open AI is acquiring Rockset to improve the accuracy of artificial intelligence ...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Tracy Ragan discuss the work the FinOps Foundation has been doing to help organizations get a better handle of cloud spending and the impact generative artificial intelligence (AI) might have on that effort. Then, they take a hard look at the viability of ...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie along with new gang member Jon Swartz and special guest Lisa Martin, CMO advisor at The Futurum Group, examine the surgeon general’s proposal to add warning labels to social media platforms. Then, they dive into a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation into how Adobe lice...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, dive into the extraordinary testimony before Congress where Microsoft president Brad Smith admits the company has major cybersecurity issues. Then the gang turns its a...

Mike, Mitch and special guest Chris Blask dive into the breach debacle involving Snowflake and TicketMaster before turning their attention to the role the FBI should be playing in securing IT environments. Finally, in the wake of the Fortinet move to acquire Lacework the distinction between tools...

Mike, Bonnie and special guest Mark Hinkle dive into the artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives revealed this week by Apple, including the sustainability implications, before delving into how AI is about to change the way we learn. Then the gang turns its attention to how AI might soon change t...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guests Tracy Bannon and Stephen Foskett, President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, dive into why agile development methodologies are being thrown under the proverbial bus before discussing what’s required for modern CIOs to succeed....

Mike and special guest John Willis discuss the potential merits of an investigation into the relationships between Microsoft, Open AI and NVIDIA that is being purportedly led by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Then they turn their attention to the 10th anniversary of Kubernetes before dis...

Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Mark Hinkle assess the degree to which AI represents an actual threat to humanity, when to expect robots with AI capabilities, and the AI chip battle among Intel, ARM, AMD, Qualcomm and NVIDIA.

Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Tracy Bannon consider all the good things that AI might accomplish before they turn their attention to the energy challenges the IT industry faces as workloads become more data intensive. Then, the gang turns its attention to how cybersecurity is portrayed in...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Tracy Ragan identify the forces driving a wave of alliances and acquisitions across the DevOps landscape. Then, Alan and Mitch share their experiences at a Tech Field Day event that focused on application development trends.

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...

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...

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.

Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guest Steve Dickens, vice president and practice lead for The Futurum Group, discuss changes at the helm of Amazon Web Services (AWS) before diving into how the relationship between Elon Musk and Oracle is evolving.
Next, the Gang takes a hard look at what Google is...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Amanda see a need for more transparency into cloud computing costs before diving into how artificial intelligence (AI) tools might turn everyone into an application developer. Then the gang turns its attention to the $2.1 billion spinoff of the Software Integrity Group (SIG)...

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...

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, 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...

Alan Shimel, Amanda Razani and John Willis discuss the rollout of small language models by Microsoft and Apple, as well as the benefits of smaller models to the enterprise, before contemplating the impact AI is having on networking. Additionally, they talk about OpenTelemetry and whether or not i...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Tracy Ragan debate the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) might one day improve application security. Then, they dive into what motivated NVIDIA to buy a company that makes it possible to use graphical processor units (GPUs) more efficiently. Addition...

Alan, Mike and Bonnie dive into the latest developments in the open source software wars, before diving into the latest trends in climate technology.
Then, the Techstrong Gang discusses the implications of using artificial intelligence (AI) to create digital images of people that can speak like t...

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Amanda ponder the future of open source software security now that it’s become apparent cybercriminals are posing as legitimate contributors to sabotage projects. Then, they discuss how Cisco is using AI, eBPF and digital twins to improve application security. Finally, the g...