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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 addressing cooling challenges in data centers. A $2 trillion investment in AI data centers raises sustaina...

You can see the newest Techstrong Gang Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLotLY1RC8HouuSff0OQJQP9ex0k0xLVqj     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 cybe...

You can see the newest Techstrong Gang Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLotLY1RC8HouuSff0OQJQP9ex0k0xLVqj 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. F...

You can see the newest Techstrong Gang Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLotLY1RC8HouuSff0OQJQP9ex0k0xLVqj 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 intelligenc...

You can see the newest Techstrong Gang Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLotLY1RC8HouuSff0OQJQP9ex0k0xLVqj   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...

You can see the newest Techstrong Gang Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLotLY1RC8HouuSff0OQJQP9ex0k0xLVqj   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 de...

You can see the newest Techstrong Gang Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLotLY1RC8HouuSff0OQJQP9ex0k0xLVqj   Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie, Jon and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, discuss the arrival of the cloud-native application era. Then, they dive into why Open AI is acquiring Rockset to improve the accuracy of...

You can see the newest Techstrong Gang Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLotLY1RC8HouuSff0OQJQP9ex0k0xLVqj   Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Tracy Ragan discuss the work the FinOps Foundation has been doing to help organizations get a better handle of cloud spending and the impact generative artificial intelligence (AI) might have on that effort. Then, they take a hard l...

You can see the newest Techstrong Gang Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLotLY1RC8HouuSff0OQJQP9ex0k0xLVqj Alan, Mike, Bonnie along with new gang member Jon Swartz and special guest Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor at The Futurum Group, examine the surgeon general’s proposal to add warning labels to social media platforms before diving into a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation...

You can see the newest Techstrong Gang Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLotLY1RC8HouuSff0OQJQP9ex0k0xLVqj Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, dive into the extraordinary testimony before Congress where Microsoft president Brad Smith admits the company has major cybersecurity issues. The...

Mike, Mitch and special guest Chris Blask dive into the breach debacle involving Snowflake and TicketMaster before turning their attention to the role the FBI should be playing in securing IT environments. Finally, in the wake of the Fortinet move to acquire Lacework the distinction between tools and platforms in the land of cybersecurity is starting to blur.

Mike, Bonnie and special guest Mark Hinkle dive into the artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives revealed this week by Apple, including the sustainability implications, before delving into how AI is about to change the way we learn. Then the gang turns its attention to how AI might soon change the way IT teams are structured in the wake of the latest generative AI initiative from Amazon Web Servi...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guests Tracy Bannon and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, dive into why agile development methodologies are being thrown under the proverbial bus before discussing what’s required for modern CIOs to succeed. Then the gang turns its attention to a Stanford study that examines the degree to which retrieval augm...

Mike and special guest John Willis discuss the potential merits of an investigation into the relationships between Microsoft, Open AI and NVIDIA that is being purportedly led by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Then they turn their attention to the 10th anniversary of Kubernetes before discussing Cisco’s ambition to unify the management of IT.

Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Mark Hinkle assess the degree to which AI represents an actual threat to humanity, when to expect robots with AI capabilities, and the AI chip battle among Intel, ARM, AMD, Qualcomm and NVIDIA. 

Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Tracy Bannon consider all the good things that AI might accomplish before they turn their attention to the energy challenges the IT industry faces as workloads become more data intensive. Then, the gang turns its attention to how cybersecurity is portrayed in the movies.

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Tracy Ragan identify the forces driving a wave of alliances and acquisitions across the DevOps landscape. Then, Alan and Mitch share their experiences at a Tech Field Day event that focused on application development trends.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Lisa Martin, host of the CMO Advisor, an arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the need to disclose how much artificial intelligence (AI) was used to create content such as political ads, before exploring the impact AI will have on call centers. Then, the gang turns its attention to just how much a generative AI platform can be trusted with a secret.

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Amanda dive into the degree to which a rebellion against NVIDIA is brewing before revisiting the latest flareup in the Linux distribution wars. Then, the gang turns its attention to the impact generative artificial intelligence (AI) is about to have on the long simmering tensions between IT service management (ITSM) teams and DevOps engineers.

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Bonnie dive into the latest artificial intelligence (AI) advances from Microsoft before taking a look at the IT infrastructure wars that AI has ignited. Then the gang discusses the impact generative AI is about to have on CISOs.

In this episode, the Techstrong Gang welcomes Stephen Foskett of The Futurum Group/Tech Field Day to the show. Stephen joins Alan and Mitch to discuss the results of a recent DevOps survey from Harness, which seems to suggest there is a lot of room for improvement in CI/CD. Next up, "It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your employee is?" A recent Security Boulevard article highlights that North Korea i...

In this special edition of the Techstrong Gang, Alan and Mitch join up with the Infrastructure Matters podcast crew to discuss a “cloud cold war” brewing in China, the latest on “sovereign clouds” and managed hosting, and finally the big IBM/Palo Alto deal in security and AI.

Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guest Steve Dickens, vice president and practice lead for The Futurum Group, discuss changes at the helm of Amazon Web Services (AWS) before diving into how the relationship between Elon Musk and Oracle is evolving. Next, the gang takes a hard look at what Google is up to when it comes to delivering on its artificial intelligence (AI) promises.

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Amanda see a need for more transparency into cloud computing costs before diving into how artificial intelligence (AI) tools might turn everyone into an application developer. Then the gang turns its attention to the $2.1 billion spinoff of the Software Integrity Group (SIG) at Synopsys into an independent application security testing company.

In this special edition of Techstrong Gang recorded at RSAC 2024 in San Francisco, Alan Shimel, Mitch Ashley, Chris Blask (Cybeats), Sharyn Fitzpatrick (Sysdig) and Mark Miller (Sourced Network Productions) recap the highlights from this year's 2024 RSAC (AI to the left, to the right, everywhere and nowhere, all at once). Then they discuss if open source has run it's course before talking about th...