Techstrong Gang

Techstrong Gang - 7/30/24

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. Then, the gang turns its attention to the potential rise of Web5 as a framework that gives organizations more control over their data.

Techstrong Gang - 7/29/24

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 more sustainable.

Techstrong Gang - 7/25/24

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.

Techstrong Gang - 7/25/24

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 attention to a DevSecOps report for JFrog that makes it clear much more work needs to be done to ensure application security.

Techstrong Gang - 7/24/24

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 in the cloud before discussing the latest twists and turns in the CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage saga. Finally, Ira Winkler believes that cybersecurity programs render themselves impudent by acting like users should follow policies and procedures without being encouraged.

Techstrong Gang - 7/23/24

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 for the recent global Windows outage. Finally, the gang turns its attention to how the charging of electronic vehicles (EVs) might soon improve.

Techstrong Gang - 7/22/24

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 developers and senior managers before delving into a growing uneasiness about the current state of artificial intelligence (AI) model security.

Techstrong Gang - 7/19/24

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 to succeed in IT.

Techstrong Gang - 7/18/24

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 attention to the need to incorporate sustainability metrics that are now being incorporated into best FinOps practices. Finally, Bob Reselman asks an essential but overlooked question about choice: What happens to our ability to make a choice when we only have to choose among two or three things?

Techstrong Gang - 7/17/24

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 intelligence (AI) technologies are, for better or worse, sowing more seeds of distrust.