Techstrong Gang
Techstrong Gang is your go-to weekday show on Techstrong TV and your favorite podcast platform, bringing together a rotating lineup of top thought leaders and technologists to break down the biggest stories and trends shaping the tech world. Hosted by industry veterans Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Mitchell Ashley, Jon Swartz, Lisa Martin, Tracy Ragan, Sulagna Saha, Anne Ahola Ward, Bonnie Schneider, and more, the show dives deep into everything from DevOps and cybersecurity to AI and cloud innovation. Tune in Monday through Friday for insightful discussions, expert analysis, and lively debates on the issues that matter most to today’s tech professionals.
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Episodes
Tuesday May 20, 2025
Tuesday May 20, 2025
Mike, Bonnie, Futurum analyst Guy Currer and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group dive into the future of artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps).
Then the gang takes a look at the impact agentic AI will have on analytics following a Qlik Connect event before delving into the impact generative AI is having on application modernization.
Monday May 19, 2025
Monday May 19, 2025
Alan, Mike, Jon, Teri Robinson and Futurum Group analyst Guy Currier dive into the growing feud between Apple and President Donald Trump before discussing the latest controversy to engulf the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).Then the gang turns its attention to a move by Salesforce to acquire Convergence.ai to shore up its ability to build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
Friday May 16, 2025
Friday May 16, 2025
Alan, Mike and Jon dive into the $1 billion acquisition of Neon, a provider of serverless database platform, made this week by Databricks.
Then the gang discusses how robotic process automation (RPA) is evolving in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) following an Automation Anywhere event before musing about the impact open source software and hardware will have on robotics.
Thursday May 15, 2025
Thursday May 15, 2025
Mike, Jon, Anne Ahola Ward and Robert Reeves discuss the degree to which graphics processing units (GPUs) have become chips that are being exchanged in a larger international trade negotiation before delving into why Pope Leo IV seems to be warming up to the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI).
Then the gang takes a look at the implications of a $95 million settlement of a lawsuit that accused Apple of using its Siri technology to eavesdrop on conversations.
Wednesday May 14, 2025
Wednesday May 14, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Chris Blask and Jules Okafor dive into cybersecurity spending levels that are projected to reach $288 billion before discussing an OpenText report that suggests 2.8% of endpoints are infected with malware.
Then the gang turns its attention to the need for more cost efficient approaches to storing data that might be enabled by synthetic DNA technology being advanced by Atlas Data Storage.
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Tuesday May 13, 2025
Alan, Mike, Bonnie, JP Morgenthal and Stephen Foskett, president of The Tech Field Day arm of the The Futurum Group, delve into the rise of quantum networking before reviewing debating the merits of WiFI versus LTE networks.
Then the gang takes a look at the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) represents a threat to the environment.
Monday May 12, 2025
Monday May 12, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Teri Robinson and Guy Currier, a research analyst for The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of a research paper that shows it’s possible to predict prime numbers that are used to encrypt data.
Then the gang turns its attention to another vendor that may be experiencing some open source software remorse before discussing just how big a trend might migration off of VMware platforms might actually be.
Friday May 09, 2025
Friday May 09, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Camberly Bates, Robert Reeves, Guy Currier, an industry analyst for The Futurum Group, and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into an emerging funding crisis impacting the open source community.
Then the gang delves into an alien between Nutanix and Pure Storage that promises to provide a new class of servers before taking a look into how internal developer platforms (IDPs) are driving platform engineering.
Thursday May 08, 2025
Thursday May 08, 2025
Alan, Mike, Jon, Sulagna and Chris Blask dive into an effort by the U.S. Department of Treasury to prevent platforms accused of laundering Bitcoin on behalf of cybercriminals from being able to access financial networks before turning to an effort to validate the identities of humans using retinal scans that is being led by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Then the gang dives into a ServiceNow effort to provide the command center through which artificial intelligence (AI) agents will be managed.
Wednesday May 07, 2025
Wednesday May 07, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Amanda debate IBM’s ability to regain its artificial intelligence (AI) mantle in the agentic era before delving into the degree to which the open source community might welcome back Redis.
Then the gang wonders why so many AI platforms being developed for human resources applications seem to have a bias toward white males.