Techstrong Gang
2 Seasons
The Techstrong Gang brings together a collection of IT industry editors, analysts and pundits to put major IT news and trends in perspective.
Intended to help IT leaders make more informed strategic and tactical decisions, topics discussed typically span everything from the impact AI is having on society to the latest DevOps tools an IT team might employ to optimize workflows.
Come watch core Techstrong Gang members Alan Shimel, Mitch Ashley, Mike Vizard, Amanda Razani and Bonnie Schneider engage experts such as John Willis, Mark Hinkle, Tracy Ragan, Tracy Bannon and Bob Reselman to surface crucial insights into the issues changing the way we perceive the role of IT.
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51:55Episode 1
Techstrong Gang - May 6, 2025
Episode 1
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, explore the potential of Amazon's satellite communications service as a viable alternative to Starlink before moving on to appreciate all the advancements enabled by the Hubble Space Telescope...
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52:10Episode 2
Techstrong Gang - May 5, 2025
Episode 2
The Gang reflects on the RSAC Conference and discuss the rise of agentic AI, noting a 72% usage rate among organizations. They highlight the API economy's role in AI integration and predict widespread adoption by 2029. Innovations in power and memory technology aim to enhance efficiency while add...
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48:06Episode 3
Techstrong Gang - May 2, 2025
Episode 3
At the 2025 RSAC Conference, Mitch Ashley, Jon Swartz and Lisa Martin discuss the crucial role MCP servers play in AI deployment, raising significant security concerns that require effective monitoring. Then, they highlight how cyber resilience is essential for companies to withstand attacks, wit...
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44:30Episode 4
Techstrong Gang - May 1, 2025
Episode 4
In today’s Techstrong Gang from the RSAC Conference, Lisa Martin, Mitch Ashley, Jon Swartz and Alan Shimel discuss RSAC happenings. They highlight the keynote by DHS Secratery Noem, which called for taking CISA back to its core mission, and debate whether this a good thing for the industry. Next,...
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45:09Episode 5
Techstrong Gang - April 30, 2025
Episode 5
From the RSAC Conference in San Francisco, Alan, Lisa Martin and Jon Swartz highlight the rise of AI and technology trends. Cisco announces an open-source AI model for cybersecurity, while IT managers express concerns about AI-related risks. The discussion covers potential security breaches, rans...
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54:59Episode 6
Techstrong Gang - April 29, 2025
Episode 6
Mike, Tracy Ragan, Guy Currier, chief analyst for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of the Futurum Group, dive into the state of artificial intelligence (AI) security before discussing what infrastructure will be required to run ...
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44:05Episode 7
Techstrong Gang - April 28, 2025
Episode 7
Alan, Mike, Tracy Ragan, Chris Blask and Teri Robinson dive into a United Nations report highlighting the use of slave labor to perpetrate online scams before discussing the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) agents may soon enable application developers to build more secure application...
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35:07Episode 8
Techstrong Gang - April 25, 2025
Episode 8
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Lisa Martin, the CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, highlight how a navigation application built using quantum computers might one day replace the ground positioning system (GPS) based on satellites that is pervasively used around the world.
Then, the gang turns its at...
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52:22Episode 9
Techstrong Gang - April 24, 2025
Episode 9
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...
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42:31Episode 10
Techstrong Gang - April 23, 2025
Episode 10
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...
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51:52Episode 11
Techstrong Gang - April 22, 2025
Episode 11
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...
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46:31Episode 12
Techstrong Gang - April 21, 2025
Episode 12
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...
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39:28Episode 13
Techstrong Gang - April 18, 2025
Episode 13
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...
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45:35Episode 14
Techstrong Gang - April 17, 2025
Episode 14
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.
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44:13Episode 15
Techstrong Gang - April 16, 2025
Episode 15
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...
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56:09Episode 16
Techstrong Gang - April 15, 2025
Episode 16
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.
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47:27Episode 17
Techstrong Gang - April 14, 2025
Episode 17
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 ...
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48:07Episode 18
Techstrong Gang - April 11, 2025
Episode 18
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...
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50:34Episode 19
Techstrong Gang - April 10, 2025
Episode 19
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...
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55:05Episode 20
Techstrong Gang - April 9, 2025
Episode 20
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...
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53:13Episode 21
Techstrong Gang - April 8, 2025
Episode 21
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...
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34:18Episode 22
Techstrong Gang - April 7, 2025
Episode 22
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.
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48:36Episode 23
Techstrong Gang - April 4, 2025
Episode 23
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...
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39:49Episode 24
Techstrong Gang - April 3, 2025
Episode 24
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.