Techstrong Gang

Techstrong Gang - 6/26/24

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Steve Driscoll, a chief technology advisor for cloud infrastructure at The Futurum Group, dive into how the management of IT infrastructure will need to evolve in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Then, they discuss the degree to which IT organizations are ready to operationalize AI. Finally, the gang turns its attention to whether the movement to shift more responsibility left towards developers is dead or simply being reincarnated in form of platform engineering.

Techstrong Gang - 6/25/24

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie, Jon and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, discuss the arrival of the cloud-native application era. Then, they dive into why Open AI is acquiring Rockset to improve the accuracy of artificial intelligence (AI) applications that make use of large language models (LLMs). Finally, the gang turns its attention to the move by the U.S. government to ban the sale of cybersecurity software from Kaspersky.

Techstrong Gang - 6/24/24

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Tracy Ragan discuss the work the FinOps Foundation has been doing to help organizations get a better handle of cloud spending and the impact generative artificial intelligence (AI) might have on that effort. Then, they take a hard look at the viability of Anthropic as an alternative to rival providers of large language model (LLM) platforms. Finally, the gang turns its attention to the resurgence of SUSE as a leader of the open source software community following its acquisition of StateStack.

Techstrong Gang - 6/20/24

Alan, Mike, Bonnie along with new gang member Jon Swartz and special guest Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor at The Futurum Group, examine the surgeon general’s proposal to add warning labels to social media platforms before diving into a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation into how Adobe licenses its software. Then the gang turns its attention to how the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) is being marketed well beyond its actual capabilities. Finally, Bob Reselman weighs in why, despite new tools and dashboards making it easier for developers to work faster, it doesn’t always follow they will work smarter.

Techstrong Gang - 6/18/24

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, dive into the extraordinary testimony before Congress where Microsoft president Brad Smith admits the company has major cybersecurity issues. Then the gang turns its attention to the latest episode of the soap opera that artificial intelligence (AI) has become, now that Elon Musk has withdrawn a lawsuit against Open AI, before discussing a call for more AI regulation issues by Pope Francis.

Techstrong Gang - 6/17/24

Mike, Mitch and special guest Chris Blask dive into the breach debacle involving Snowflake and TicketMaster before turning their attention to the role the FBI should be playing in securing IT environments. Finally, in the wake of the Fortinet move to acquire Lacework the distinction between tools and platforms in the land of cybersecurity is starting to blur.

Techstrong Gang - 6/13/24

Mike, Bonnie and special guest Mark Hinkle dive into the artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives revealed this week by Apple, including the sustainability implications, before delving into how AI is about to change the way we learn. Then the gang turns its attention to how AI might soon change the way IT teams are structured in the wake of the latest generative AI initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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.