Techstrong Gang
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 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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Episodes
Monday Dec 09, 2024
Monday Dec 09, 2024
Alan, Mike and special guests John Willis, Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visual Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the debate about remote work following reports from Stanford University and Sen. Jodi Ernst (R-IW). Then, the gang takes a look at what it might or might not mean to be an artificial intelligence (AI) engineer before delving deeper into the latest customer retention report from CrowdStrike in the wake of the infamous Windows outage.
Friday Dec 06, 2024
Friday Dec 06, 2024
Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor at The Futurum Group, delve into just how catastrophic the breach of telecommunications networks being attributed to China really is. Then, the gang turns its attention to the record amount of spending that occurred on Cyber Monday before discussing the impact the Heroku platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment from Salesforce might have on accelerating the development of cloud-native applications destined to run on Kubernetes clusters.
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Today’s Techstrong Gang is a bit different -- it is an intimate lineup of just Alan Shimel and Jon Swartz in person from the Techstrong TV studio at AWS re:Invent. Jon and Alan discuss what AWS's end goal is and assumptions they are making that are driving many of the product and service announcements. Then, they discuss how the AWS ecosystem works in the AWS model.
Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
Alan, Mike and Mitch, live at the AWS re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas, dive into everything from Nova foundational models that were unfurled to the latest extensions of Amazon Q Developer that promise to make it simpler to modernize legacy applications.
Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
In today’s Techstrong Gang, Alan is in Las Vegas with Camberley Bates for AWS re:Invent. They are joined by Jon Swartz and Bonnie Schneider to discuss the “retirement” of Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, and what it means. Then, they discuss the FTC opening an investigation of Microsoft, and lastly, Bonnie has a report from COP29, the global climate summit recently held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Monday Dec 02, 2024
Monday Dec 02, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch and Jon dive into the ramifications of a global Microsoft outage before discussing the likelihood that the Department of Justice (DoJ) in the U.S. might be able to force Google to sell off its browser. Then, the gang turns its attention to what DevOps teams might expect to see from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in advance of the AWS re:invent 2024 conference this week.
Wednesday Nov 27, 2024
Wednesday Nov 27, 2024
Alan, Mike, Mitch and Amanda dive into the ten things IT professionals can be thankful for during uncertain times, including everything from generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the rise of platform engineering to better cybersecurity and even lower interest rates.
Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Stephen Foskett, president of The Tech Field Day unit of The Futurum Group, delve into the state of wireless networking following an event hosted last week. Then, the gang turns its attention to how object storage systems are evolving in a way that might eliminate the need for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) using vector databases. Finally, they discuss the electrical grid challenges Ireland is facing as more data centers are brought online.
Monday Nov 25, 2024
Monday Nov 25, 2024
Alan, Mike and special guests John Willis, Tracy Bannon and Tracy Ragan discuss the degree to which the open source software community has lost its innocence in an era when cybercriminals now routinely attack software supply chains. Then, the gang turns its attention to whether data science teams building artificial intelligence (AI) platforms are making the same cybersecurity mistakes that application developers made prior to the rise of DevSecOps. Finally, the gang debates whether augmented general intelligence (AGI) is real enough to warrant a Manhattan Project funded by the U.S. government.
Friday Nov 22, 2024
Friday Nov 22, 2024
In today's Techstrong Gang, Alan is joined by Jon Swartz and Camberley Bates. The gang discusses Microsoft’s announcement about getting serious about security — again. Camberley provides an update on the SC24 conference, which she attended. Finally, they discuss Elon Musk's lawsuit to prevent a California law from going into effect that would ban AI-generated deepfakes.