Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon, Sulagna and JP Morgenthal dive into how artificial intelligence (AI) agents will be used to expose criminal behavior online before debating the merits of a raft of AI coding tools that are now becoming available.

Then, the gang turns its attention to how AI will enable th...

Alan, Mike, Amanda, Chris Blask and Lisa Martin, chief marketing advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the impact digital shelf labels (DSLs)—being adopted by, for example, Walmart and Kroger—will for better or worse have on the way consumers shop.

Then, the gang looks at how artificial intel...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie, Robert Reeves and Stephen Foskett, president of The Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, celebrate Earth Day by diving into the impact demand for artificial intelligence (AI) is having on the construction of data centers before previewing an AI Infrastructure event occurri...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Sulagna and Tracy Ragan delve into the implications of a ruling that acknowledges Google has been operating as a monopoly in the online advertising sector.

Then, the gang takes a look at why Microsoft is investing more in advancing cloud-native technologies before discussing t...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the CVE controversy that has emerged as the Trump Administration continues to evaluate funding for the program.

Then, the gang discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) might be used to further increase globali...

Alan, Camberley Bates, Lisa Martin, Jon Swartz and JP Morganthal dive into the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta over its past acquisitions and potential monopoly concerns, as well as NVIDIA's announcement of U.S.-based chip production, sparking debate over feasibility and long-term impact.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and Guy Currier, chief analyst for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, discuss the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools based on open source models might supplant proprietary rivals before taking a look at the way the Trump administration is...

In today’s Techstrong Gang, Alan, Camberley, Mitch and Bonnie Schneider discuss tariffs, on, off, on, off. They then turn to Microsoft pushing forward with Recall, security concerns be damned, and end the show with a report from Bonnie from the recent eMerge Americas conference with Prophets of AI.

Alan, Mike, Tracy Ragan, John Willis and Guy Currier, chief analyst for the Visible Impact arm of The Techstrong Group, dive into President Trump’s efforts to discredit cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs before debating the merits of the latest lawsuit filed by OpenAI against Elon Musk.

Then, the ...

Mike, Jon, Sulgana, Andi Mann and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the latest artificial intelligence (AI) announcements from Google before taking a look at a less ambitious agentic AI effort being made by Atlassian.

Then, the gang takes a look at a lawsuit involving alg...

Mike, Robert Reeves and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the degree to which Big Tech is seeing a return on its investment in President Donald Trump.

Then, the gang turns its attention to the rise of Argo as an open source continuous delivery (CD) platfo...

Mike, Chris Blask, JP Morgenthal and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into IBM’s efforts to make the mainframe a platform for running artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

Then, the gang discusses the implications of a federal effort to eliminate the paper check before c...

Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the potential impact tariffs will have on IT spending trends before diving into the degree to which the U.S. should protect a fledgling robotics industry from overseas competitors.

Then, the gang t...

Mike and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, provide retrospective insights into the cloud native technologies and trends that emerged during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 conference in London this past week.

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Guy Currier, chief analyst for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of the rise of a NeoNephos Foundation to build sovereign clouds in Europe.

Then, the gang assesses the latest market research from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (C...

At KubeCon Europe, the Techstrong Gang debates Microsoft’s new Kubernetes UI, Google’s cluster orchestration tool, and the future of observability—asking if open source wins by default or if we’re just stuck with too many tools.

Alan, Mike and Andi Mann delve into the forces driving adoption of platform engineering before discussing why it remains so challenging to convince application developers to adopt best DevSecOps practices.

Then, the gang dives into how much momentum there really is behind IT teams looking to mig...

Mike, Jon, Bonnie and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, delve into the reasons why the X social media platform is being merged by Elon Musk into xAI before discussing why Oracle might be overly reticent to confirm a cloud security breach.

Then, the gang t...

Alan, Mike, Jon and Anne Ahola Ward discuss the implications of the imminent rise of mass customization before delving into the impact artificial intelligence (AI) is having on video production.

Then, the gang dives into research that shows how graphics processing units (GPUs) might be used to c...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Guy Currier, chief analyst for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor at The Futurum Group, dive into the degree artificial intelligence (AI) agents will democratize business intelligence (BI).

Then the gang turns its atten...

Alan, Mike, Amanda and Jon delve into the security implications of a 23andMe bankruptcy that might result in DNA data being more widely shared than anticipated.

Then the gang debates the degree to which there might be a socio-economic gap emerging in terms of artificial intelligence (AI) adoptio...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, discuss why cloud storage costs are spiraling out of control before highlighting the latest advances in networking covered at a recent Tech Field Day event.

Then, the gang turns its attention to a b...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Lisa Martin dive into a set of DevOps market research reports from The Futurum Group that find increased levels of maturity among organizations adopting best practices is driving a forecasted compound annual growth rate in excess of 9% through 2028.

Then, the gang disc...