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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, Sharon Florentine, Amanda Razani and ...
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This podcast is designed for entrepreneurs. Whether you've been in business for 1 day or 100 years. We're going to explore the Good, the Bad and the Motivational of business life and after hours. I'm going to hold no punches, get right to the nitty gritty and be honest about my own failures and how I learned to turn them into successes. But be warned we are going to laugh together and learn to laugh at yourself cause if you're not having fun why are you doing it?
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In today's episode, the gang is in San Diego covering Qualys Security Conference. At QSC, Alan meets with Qualys to discuss the new TruRisk management ROC (Risk Operations Center). They also discuss the challenges of disaster recovery in the era of extreme climate change and the Nobel Prize committee awarding two prizes for work using AI.…
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Alan, Mike and special guests Hope Lynch and Chris Blask discuss the extent to which generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents are about to transform the way everyone works before diving into the paradox that cloud computing has become. Then, the gang turns its attention to the outsized role the insurance industry now plays in the cybersecurit…
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SEO is an important topic but can often feel like another language that you are just learning. Barb Davids sat down to take the fluff out of the conversation and talk about small things that you can implement right away to start having your site rank higher. She also covers how to see your rankings, repurpose your content and much more. You’ll need…
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Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guests Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, and Camberly Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, following a Tech Field Day event dive into the IT infrastructure challenges organizations are facing as they embrace artificial intelligence (AI). Then the gang dives …
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Mike, Mitch, Jon, Guy Currier, CTO of the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the impact generative artificial intelligence (AI) will have on e-commerce sales following a forecast shared by Adobe. Then, the gang discusses the impact the demise of the Microsoft Halo Lens 2 will have …
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Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Mark Hinkle and Anne Ahola Ward, CEO of CircleClick Media, dive into OpenAI's latest effort to recruit developers, as more executives head for the exits. Then, the gang turns its attention to how effectively enterprise IT organizations are embracing generative artificial intelligence (AI) before taking a look at t…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Hope Lynch dive into a DevOps Next report from Techstrong Research that finds interest in investing in tools and platforms to accelerate the pace of application development is stronger than ever. Then the gang turns its attention to the degree cybersecurity professionals are worried about vulnerabilities being cr…
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Oftentimes we hear only the stories of the big success, what it's like at the top. Although as an entrepreneur ourselves, we know there is always a long road to get there, often it can feel like we have to forge the path and lay the concrete ourselves. Sonya joins me today to talk about how the journey isn’t always the way we dreamed but what sets …
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In today's Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mitch Ashley, Tracy Ragan, Hope Lynch and Guy Currier get together and discuss the intent of the FTC to crack down on deceptive advertising that uses AI. They also discuss President Biden's speech at the UN, which warns of the profound risks of AI. Finally, they deliberate whether open source project maintai…
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In today's Techstrong Gang, gang members Jon Swartz, Mitchell Ashley and new gang member Anne Ahola Ward discuss Google filing an anti-trust suit against Microsoft in the EU, Cloudflare celebrating its birthday with new offerings to stop the AI bots (among other things) and how Siemens helped the USA Saling team "Come Sail Away" with a medal in Par…
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Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Mark Hinkle and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into a debate that is raging over the business value of investments being made in generative artificial intelligence (AI). Then, the gang reviews a Congressional hearing that surfaced what CrowdStrike is doing to make sure the…
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Alan, Mike and special guests Hope Lynch and Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst for The Futurum Group, dive into the multiple challenges facing Intel, as the company ponders multiple investment and acquisition options. Then, the gang turns its attention to where all the software engineering jobs are before discussing the degree to which the rise of …
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We all know the number one rule in business is making sure people know you exist. The old saying, build it and they will come just isn’t true on its own. SEO to the rescue! Now that being said, understanding the full importance of SEO content in your marketing strategy and how to use blogs to help can seem like just another research item you have t…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the rise of edge computing following the latest Tech Field Day event. Then the gang delves into the implications of using nuclear energy to power the data centers needed to enable generative artificial intelligence before discussing th…
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Join the gang on today’s discussions, including “putting the bomb in SBOM," and how it could forever change supply chains. Next, the FTC said what many of us have been thinking all these years -- large social media and streaming providers have been eavesdropping on us. Finally, we tackle the pressing question: When does the risk of AI security beco…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into what the interest rate cut instituted by The Federal Reserve Bank means for IT. Then, the gang discusses how generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming technical marketing before discussing how Will.i.am, front man for The Black Eyed Peas, is investing…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Hope Lynch dive into a study that finds there haven't been any significant DevOps productivity gains from investments in generative artificial intelligence (AI). Then, the gang turns its attention to the AI agent strategy being adopted by Salesforce with a little help from NVIDIA. Finally, they discuss the d…
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Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guests Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development for The Futurum Group, and Steven Dickens, a chief technology advisor for the The Futurum Group, dive into the degree to which composable headless cloud services might one day make IT infrastructure irrelevant. Then, the gang delves into why generative …
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Your relationship with money is in trouble! Fear not, my guest today is going to help you to understand why you are stuck, how to get unstuck and why having a new powerful relationship with money is going to change EVERYTHING. Pericles Rellas is a Money Mindset Expert who explains how money flows, how to read your financial thermostat and how to re…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, delve into the next wave of forthcoming artificial intelligence (AI) advances before diving into the latest sustainability report from Meta. Then, the gang turns its attention to a Digital Markets Act that has now gone into effect …
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Mike and special guests Tracy Ragan, David Nicholson, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, and Guy Currier, CTO of Visible Impact, discuss what it really means to add reasoning capabilities to large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI and others. Then, the gang turns its attention to how artificial intelligence (AI) and DevOps automatio…
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Mike, Amanda, Jon and special guests Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development for The Futurum Group, and Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the degree to which the current shortage of graphics processing units (GPUs) is impacting the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. Then, the gang turns its attention to…
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Mike, Jon and special guests Hope Lynch and David Nicholson, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss how Oracle drives to embrace and extend generative artificial intelligence (AI) while making peace with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Then, the gang dives into the Apple AI strategy before discussing what the government should ideally…
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At JFrog's 10th annual SwampUP event, Alan and Mike discuss the integration of AI, DevOps, and security, with a focus on how AI models are becoming central to DevOps workflows and version control. JFrog's new partnerships, such as with Nvidia, and product launches like runtime security for Kubernetes, highlight their continued innovation in MLOps a…
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Changing what you do for a living is a big decision. It feels even bigger when you are an entrepreneur. My guest Emily talks about how she used collaboration to help her not only make the decision on which path to go down after closing her retail store but how she continued to use it to help her new business grow and flourish. Visit here to learn m…
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Mike, Jon, Bonnie and specials guests Anne Ahola Ward and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of the Futurum Group, talk about the rise of AI PCs before discussing the impact AI will have on sustainability. Then the gang turns its attention to the impact AI is having on labor negotiations as unions struggle to come to terms with ye…
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Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Tracy Ragan and David Nicholson, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the details of a lawsuit filed by AT&T against Broadcom, which alleges changes to the VMware support contracts are an illegal threat to its business. Then, the gang delves into the degree to which generative artificial int…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Lisa Martin, CMO at The Futurum Group, and Guy Currier, CTO of Visible Impact, an arm of the Futurum Group, delve into the degree to which operations of all types can be managed as code before delving into whether that well-known DevOps Loop doesn’t actually reflect how software is developed. Then the gang turns…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the probability that cloud computing costs will rise, as demand continues to outstrip data center capacity. Then, they delve into the implications of an investigation of NVIDIA that has been launched by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Finally…
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Exposure! It is what every business owner wants and needs. But how do you go about standing out in what can seem like an oversaturated industry? My guest today is going to tell you what you need to do to get started today. For the past 30+ years, Mitch has helped hundreds of speakers, authors, coaches, consultants, and business owners worldwide lan…
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Mike, Jon and special guests Chris Blask and Tracy Ragan dive into the latest developments surrounding the CrowdStrike outage, including $60 million worth of credits being offered to customers. Then, the gang shifts its focus to concerns about malware being implanted in drones manufactured in China. Finally, they evaluate the increasing efforts by …
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the degree to which public clouds are giving IT teams post-traumatic stress disorder following comments made by Broadcom CEO Hock Tan. Then, the gang dives into how OpenStack is evolving before discussing why Scope 3 emissions are so challengi…
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Alan, Mike, Jon and special guest Tracy Ragan mourn the impending demise of the Windows Control Panel. Then, they dive into the degree to which generative artificial intelligence (AI) might enable governments to better serve the needs of the citizen. Finally, the gang turns its attention to how technology, for better or worse, is changing the way w…
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Mike and special guests John Willis, Guy Currier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit of The Futurum Group, dive into how IT budgets for 2025 are shaping up. Then, they delve into how much Wall Street might be undervaluing the investments being made in generative ar…
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Alan, Mike, Paul Nashawaty, practice leader for application development at The Futurum Group, and Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, debate the degree to which application developers might, thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), no longer need to write code following some prognostications from the CEO of Amazon Web Service…
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Alan, Mike, Bonnie, Jon and special guests Chris Blask and Hope Lynch dive into the state of software supply chains before discussing a technology advance from McAfee that makes it possible to detect deep fakes. Then the gang turns its attention to a growing right to repair movement that is gaining traction in multiple state legislatures.…
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Alan, Mike, Amanda, Jon and Steven Dickens, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the reasons why AMD is plunking down $4.9 billion to acquire ZT Systems. Then, the gang turns its attention to an Open Source Software Prevalence Initiative launched by the White House before discussing what’s driving a surge of layoffs in the te…
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Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guests Steven Dickens, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, dive into the state of the mainframe community following the latest SHARE conference event. Then, they discuss why Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) decided …
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Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests John Willis, Tracy Ragan and Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst for application development for The Futurum Group, dive into the sorry state of the images and other types of content being generated by generative artificial intelligence tools such as Grok-2 from Elon Musk’s xAI. Then, they delve into AI regulations…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss how cyberattacks are being used to target the Trump and Harris presidential campaigns. Then, they dive into what technologies will be needed to thwart Deep Fake attacks by tracking the provenance of content. Finally, the gang takes a look at the issues …
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