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A weekly movie podcast hosted by Moe Koltun and Mitch Schneider.
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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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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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Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Hope Lynch dive into the forces driving platform engineering adoption before delving into how algorithms are being used to allegedly enable new forms of monopolistic behavior. Then, the gain discusses the impact artificial intelligence (AI) is having on culture as we know it.…
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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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Host Jon Swartz with guests Hope Lynch, Lisa Martin and Guy Currier discuss how sustainable might an AI spending boom be, the AI processor wars, and what exactly is responsible AI.By Techstrong Group
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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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Hosts Jon Swartz and Amanda Razani are joined by guests Hope Lynch and Cory Johnson, chief market strategist at The Futurum Group, to discuss the detention of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov. They also talk about DevOps in the Age of SaaS and a professor that is suing Facebook for right to unfriend en masse.…
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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, 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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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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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guests Mark Hinkle and Ryan Shrout, president of Signal65, an independent testing laboratory, dive into the impact artificial intelligence (AI) will have on smartphones following the launch of the Pixel 9 smartphone from Google. Then, they delve into suggestions that, after being declared a monopoly, it might b…
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Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest David Nicholson, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, discuss the extent to which sticker shock is slowing down the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise. Then, they discuss if data management in the AI era is becoming too challenging. Finally, the gang turns its att…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, dive into the state of digital business transformation at the dawn of the artificial intelligence era. Then, the gang turns its attention to cybersecurity advances that promise to make cloud computing more secure, as wel…
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Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Tracy Ragan and John Willis dive into what it means to be an artificial intelligence (AI) developer before taking a look at a framework that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created to test AI models. Then, the gang discusses the implications of the acquisition of Launchable, a provide…
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Mike, Mitch and special guests Chris Blask and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group dive into latest claims being made by Microsoft, CrowdStrike and Delta Airlines in the wake of massive Windows outage before discussing the state of open source security. Then the gang turns its attention to the state of social media in the wake of a lawsu…
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In this special edition of Techstrong Gang, Mitch Ashley, Jon Swartz and Alan Shimel check in live from the Las Vegas scene of the Black Hat hacking conference. Mitch, Alan and Jon give you a bird's-eye view of what the themes and big stories are at this year’s Black Hat. If you didn’t make it out to the conference, this is a great way of staying i…
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Mike, Mitch, Amanda and David Nicholson, a chief technology adviser for The Futurum Group, dive into some new Techstrong Research that surfaces the degree to which DevOps teams are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) (in a way Rush fans might uniquely appreciate). Then, they delve into how AI might soon reduce the level of technical debt that cu…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Bonnie delve into the state of cybersecurity at the start of the annual Black Hat conference this week. Then, the gang turns its attention to the future of the mainframe and the rise of quantum computing.By Techstrong Group
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests John Willis and Tracy Ragan take a look at just how open source many of the large language models (LLMs) that are being made available are. Then, the gang dives into the all the CrowdStrike lawsuits that are being filed before discussing the overall state of application security.…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Lisa Martin, CMO Adviser for The Futurum Group, and Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst for application development at The Futurum Group, discuss the implications of the European Union AI Act before diving into the impact AI is having on sales and marketing. Then, the gang turns its attention to the rate at which …
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Jon dive into what’s driving a rising level of skepticism about investments in artificial intelligence (AI) before discussing the degree to which generative AI might be increasing burnout among employees. Then, the gang turns its attention to the technologies revolutionizing air travel in a way that promises to bring a…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, delve into the degree to which organizations might actually be willing to move off VMware following its acquisition by Broadcom. Then, the gang looks into how much traction F5 might actually be gaini…
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Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guests Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, and Steven Dickens, vice president and practice leader for hybrid cloud, infrastructure, and operations at the Futurum Group, debate the degree to which a cloud oligopoly exists before taking a look at the current state of IBM…
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Mike, Amanda, Bonnie and special guest John Willis discuss the impact generative artificial intelligence (AI) will have on IT professionals before diving into the degree to which organizations are actually prepared to embrace it. Then, the gang takes a look at the latest large language model (LLM) from Meta that, among other things, promises to be …
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Mike, Mitch and Chris Blask examine the degree to which CrowdStrike will be able to recover from the Windows outage debacle. Then, the gang takes a look at the privacy implications of a Google decision to not eliminate cookies and a decision by Oracle to cough up $115 million to settle a digital privacy lawsuit.…
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Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guests Mark Hinkle and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development for The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of an artificial intelligence (AI) alliance between Salesforce and Workday. Then, they examine what can be done to make AI models run more energy efficiently. Finally, the gang turns its …
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, discuss the future of Wiz, now that a potential acquisition of the provider of a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) is now apparently off the table. Then, the gang turns it attention to the traction that SAP is finally gaining …
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Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, examine a recent ruling that limits the scope of the case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against SolarWinds. Then, they discuss the degree to which Microsoft can hold the European Union (EU) accountable…
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Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Tracy Bannon, John Willis and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for data infrastructure at The Futurum Group, dive into the root causes and downstream impact of a catastrophic Windows outage caused by a CrowdStrike update. Then, the gang turns its attention to closing the divide that exists between deve…
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Mike, Mitch, Jon and Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, dive into how the geopolitics of chip manufacturing is likely to impact IT organizations before examining the relationship between high interest rates and the pace of innovation. Then, the gang turns its attention to whether a four-year college degree is really needed…
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Mike, Bonnie, Jon and special guests Mark Hinkle and Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst for The Futurum Group, dive into the current state of the artificial intelligence (AI) hype cycle. Then, they discuss whether the ability to build applications faster than ever using AI might turn out to be too much of a good thing. Next, the gang turns its atten…
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Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Chris Blask, explore why Google might be buying Wiz, a provider of a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). Then, they take a look at the root causes of a raft of breaches involving cloud platforms such as Snowflake. Finally, the gang turns its attention to how deepfakes enabled by artificial int…
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Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Guy Currier, CTO for Visual Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, look into at the current state of observability before discussing why, all of sudden, more focus than ever on bringing compute to data is creating a need for enterprise architects. Then, the gang turns its attention to why there is so much greenwashing as of la…
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Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Tracy Ragan and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development at The Futurum Group, dive into the latest artificial intelligence (AI) advances being made by Amazon Web Services (AWS) before taking a look at the sorry state of application programming interface (API) management. Then, the gang turns its…
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Mike, Mitch, and special guests Chris Blask, Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into whether a generative artificial intelligence (AI) bubble is about to burst. Then, the gang turns its attention to the evolving role of the CISO before discussing the implications of …
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Jon delve into the implications of an apparent failure by the Cyber Safety Review Board to fully review the SolarWinds attack in 2021. Then, the gang dives into why more progress hasn’t been made in the realm of Industrial DevOps before highlighting the need for increased circularity to achieve sustainability goals.…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Guy Currier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, discuss whether it is nobler to build artificial intelligence (AI) models or simply invoke models that already exist. Then, they move on to the underappreciated need for faster networks in the age of AI. Next, the gang turns its attention t…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, discuss the state of disaster recovery at the start of the hurricane season. Then, the gang turns its attention to whether machine learning operations (MLOps) is a distinct IT discipline before celebrating the 50th anniv…
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Alan, Mike, Jon and special guest Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, delve into the degree that small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) before diving into the state of Tesla prior to a forthcoming launch of a robotaxi service. Then the gang turns its attention to the sorry state o…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Daniel Newman, The Futurum Group CEO, and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development at The Futurum Group, dive into the technological chaos that will reign in the wake of a Supreme Court decision to limit the power of Federal agencies. Then, they dive into what inalienable rights content creators…
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Alan, Mike, Jon and special guests Tracy Bannon and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit of The Futurum Group, discuss how an IT project involving the British Post Office could have gone so wrong. Then, they shine a spotlight on the lack of cyber resiliency in the wake of a cyberattack that is preventing auto dealers from …
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Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Tracy Ragan evaluate the economics of information in the age of artificial intelligence. Then, they dive into a Futurum Research report that finds nearly half of organizations expect to be moving to new platforms as AI is operationalized. Finally, the gang takes a look at how observability is evolving in the age o…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor, and Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, dive into how an Oracle move to embed large language models (LLMs) into its databases will change the way artificial intelligence (AI) applications are built. Then, the gang takes a look into how AI is i…
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In today's Techstrong Gang, Techstrong CEO Alan Shimel is joined by fellow gang members Mitch Ashley, Jon Swartz, Lisa Martin and Bonnie Schneider. The gang discusses the recent actions by the EU against Microsoft around bundling Teams as part of Office 365. Next up, the gang looks at the recent renaming of VMware Vshpere to Cloud Foundation and ot…
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Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Steve Driscoll, a chief technology advisor for cloud infrastructure at The Futurum Group, dive into how the management of IT infrastructure will need to evolve in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Then, they discuss the degree to which IT organizations are ready to operationalize AI. Finally, the g…
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