Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the geopolitics of artificial intelligence (AI) following a move by the European Union to relax some its rules. Then, they disc...

Alan, Mike, Jon, Chris Blask and Anne Ahola Ward dive into the risks and implications of an America First approach to artificial intelligence (AI) that could isolate the United States from its allies. Then, they discuss the degree to which customers will now require cybersecurity and safety proto...

Mike, Amanda and Jon are joined by Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, to discuss a report projecting demand for PCs that are optimized for ...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie, Chris Blask and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of a $4.4 billion deal to take SolarWinds private.

Then, the gang debates the degree to which deepfakes can be thwarted using a combination of legislation and...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, discuss the rise of platform engineering before debating the degree to which existing DevOps workflows need a tune-up.

Then, the gang turns its attention to yet another quest for a unicorn: the d...

On today's Techstrong Gang, gang members Mitch Ashley, Jon Swartz, Lisa Martin, Sulagna Saha and Alan Shimel discuss the upcoming barrage of AI-themed commercials during the Super Bowl and what it means. Next, the gang turns its attention to whether the U.S. government should build up a wealth re...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and gang members Anne Ahola Ward and Camberley Bates debate the degree to which technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) might be able to augment or even replace referees and umpires.

Then, the gang turns its attention to whether AI in its current form is too diff...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the European Union’s (EU) ban on artificial intelligence (AI) systems that pose unacceptable risks before discussing how a mobile application dubbed Hiya is using AI to thwart robocalls and other scams.

Then,...

Techstrong Gang members Stephen Foskett, Bonnie Schneider and Alan Shimel discuss the tech industry's call for a "Great American Firewall" to keep competing technologies out. Then, the gang looks at the DOJ lawsuit -- still in effect as of today -- aiming to block HPE's acquisition of Juniper Net...

Alan, Mike and Techstrong Gang members Tracy Ragan, Tracy Bannon, and Guy Currier, CTO of Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, debate the degree to which organizations should be using large language models (LLMs), such as DeepSeek, that were created in China, before discussing the impact ...

In our second special episode of Techstrong Gang, recorded live at AI Field Day in San Jose, Mitch is joined by co-host Stephen Foskett and special guests Gina Rosenthal of Digital Sunshine Solutions and John Willis. The panel first considers the VMware private AI platform from Broadcom and the G...

In this special episode of Techstrong Gang, recorded live at AI Field Day in San Jose, Jon is joined by co-host Stephen Foskett and special guests Gina Rosenthal of Digital Sunshine Solutions and John Willis. They start with a behind-the-scenes look at what Tech Field Day means to them and why it...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Lisa Martin, the CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss claims that artificial intelligence (AI) will ultimately reduce wages to the point of causing economic collapse. Then, they revisit the controversy surrounding the DeepSeek AI large language mo...

Alan, Mike, Bonnie, Sulagna and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the claims being made by DeepSeek AI concerning a new way to drastically lower the cost of training large language models (LLMs).

Then, the gang turns its attention ...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Sulagna and special guests Chris Blask and Tracy Ragan dive into the implications recent executive orders issued by President Trump will have on cybersecurity before discussing whether sanctions are an effective method for punishing cybercriminals.

Then, the gang turns its att...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Anne Ahola Ward and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the trouble with software integration following some new research from The Futurum Group.

Then, the gang turns its attention to how data science and artificial intelligence (AI...

Mike, Jon, Sulagna and special guests John Willis and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the executive order regarding artificial intelligence (AI) issued by the Trump administration and what a $500 billion Stargate initiative might yield.

Then t...

In today’s Techstrong Gang, we discuss the open warfare in the WordPress community and the possibility of a fork of the CMS that runs more than 40% of websites. Then, we debate whether apathy has taken hold regarding cyberbreaches and explore if Allstate has been spying on drivers without permiss...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, discuss the hiring outlook for IT professionals in 2025.

Then, the gang debates the degree to which an energy shortage might curtail artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions before delving...

Mike, Mitch and special guests Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visual Impact arm of The Futurum Group, discuss how less cybersecurity training is being provided to developers, even as DevSecOps progress continues to be made. Then, they discuss the trouble with patch management.

Lastly, ...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Anne Ahola Ward discuss the likelihood that an FTC rule requiring providers of applications and services to make cancellations simple will be enacted later this year.

Then, the gang turns its attention to AI advances being made in healthcare and, finally,...

Mike, Jon and special guest Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the merit and potential impact of a TikTok ban.

Then, the gang turns its attention to robotics research and development underway at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) before providing a retrospective on CES.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Chris Blask divulge the backstory of the DevOps Dozen 2025 awards presented at the Predict conference yesterday. They also dive into the thought process behind the new Inevitability Curve video interview series hosted by Chris.

Then, the gang turns its...

In today's Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mitch Ashley, Bonnie Schneider, Stephen Foskett, Jon Swartz and Sulagna Saha discuss how tech has been deployed to help fight the catastrophic fires in the Los Angeles area.

Next, the gang turns their attention to a recent report by Bonnie Schneider on E...