Techstrong Gang

Techstrong Gang - 6/11/24

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 augmented generation (RAG) might reduce the level of hallucinations being generated by large language models (LLMs).

Techstrong Gang - 6/10/24

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.

Techstrong Gang - 6/6/24

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. 

Techstrong Gang - 6/4/24

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.

Techstrong Gang - 6/03/24

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.

Techstrong Gang - 5/30/24

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.

Techstrong Gang - 5/28/24

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.

Techstrong Gang - 5/23/24

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.

Techstrong Gang - 5/21/24

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 is having some of its hackers sign up for remote only jobs in U.S. companies -- scary indeed. Finally, we wrap this episode up with "What exactly is a Tech Field Day?" and is there an AI, PC or AI enabled device in your future? There may already be one.

Techstrong Gang - 5/20/24

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.