Techstrong Gang

Techstrong Gang - 7/12/24

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 botnets being used to spread disinformation at scale.

Techstrong Gang - 7/11/24

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.

Techstrong Gang - 7/10/24

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 to the pressing need to migrate away from passwords to embrace passkeys, in the wake of the discovery of a cache of nearly one billion passwords stored in plain text. Finally, in a new edition of Byte Me, Ira Winkler addresses why the concept of "Thinking Like a Hacker" is wrong.

Techstrong Gang - 7/9/24

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 anniversary of the barcode being used in retail.

Techstrong Gang - 7/8/24

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 of application security and who should be held accountable for it.

Techstrong Gang - 7/3/24

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 should have. Next, the gang turns its attention to whether application developers should have a bill of rights in a platform engineering era, in which IT organizations are centralizing more control. Finally, in this episode of Byte Me, Ira Winkler "addresses" his outrage that UnitedHealthcare had a CISO who had no experience in cybersecurity.

Techstrong Gang - 7/2/24

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 actually selling vehicles. Finally, the gang looks into how pervasive an issue code running in unsafe memory has become following an alert from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Techstrong Gang - 7/1/24

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 of platform engineering following the launch of several services from Datadog.

Techstrong Gang - 6/28/24

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 impacting processes and designs, before discussing how the acquisition of a machine learning operations (MLOps) platform will impact the way DevOps workflows are constructed.

Techstrong Gang - 6/27/24

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 other VMware news. Next is a new analysis on Nvidia's claims around sustainability and energy consumption by our EcoTech Insights analyst and editor, Bonnie Schneider. Finally, we have a ROELBOB piece by Bob Reselman. Ever wonder what the Tech Bros, who have made a lot of money in technology, do with it all? Bob Reselman does. In fact, he thinks that buying big mansions and islands in the Caribbean is just the low-hanging fruit. He thinks there's more to be had.