Techstrong Gang

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Hope Lynch dive into the forces driving platform engineering adoption before delving into how algorithms are being used to allegedly enable new forms of monopolistic behavior. Then, the gain discusses the impact artificial intelligence (AI) is having on culture as we know it.

Mike, Jon and special guests Chris Blask and Tracy Ragan dive into the latest developments surrounding the CrowdStrike outage, including $60 million worth of credits being offered to customers. Then, the gang shifts its focus to concerns about malware being implanted in drones manufactured in China. Finally, they evaluate the increasing efforts by governments to arrest cybercriminals through bounties that lead to their arrests.

Host Jon Swartz with guests Hope Lynch, Lisa Martin and Guy Currier discuss how sustainable might an AI spending boom be, the AI processor wars, and what exactly is responsible AI.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the degree to which public clouds are giving IT teams post-traumatic stress disorder following comments made by Broadcom CEO Hock Tan. Then, the gang dives into how OpenStack is evolving before discussing why Scope 3 emissions are so challenging to track within the context of any sustainability initiative.

Hosts Jon Swartz and Amanda Razani are joined by guests Hope Lynch and Cory Johnson, chief market strategist at The Futurum Group, to discuss the detention of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov. They also talk about DevOps in the Age of SaaS and a professor that is suing Facebook for right to unfriend en masse.

Mike and special guests John Willis, Guy Currier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit of The Futurum Group, dive into how IT budgets for 2025 are shaping up. Then, they delve into how much Wall Street might be undervaluing the investments being made in generative artificial intelligence (AI). Finally, the gang assesses the degree to which organizations might be looking to take back control of their data from providers of software-as-a-service (SaaS) application providers that are increasingly being targeted by cybercriminals.

Alan, Mike, Jon and special guest Tracy Ragan mourn the impending demise of the Windows Control Panel. Then, they dive into the degree to which generative artificial intelligence (AI) might enable governments to better serve the needs of the citizen. Finally, the gang turns its attention to how technology, for better or worse, is changing the way we view sports.

Alan, Mike, Paul Nashawaty, practice leader for application development at The Futurum Group, and Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, debate the degree to which application developers might, thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), no longer need to write code following some prognostications from the CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Then, the gang turns its attention to who is really responsible for data breaches before delving into the AI copyright lawsuits that Anthropic is now being included in.

Alan, Mike, Bonnie, Jon and special guests Chris Blask and Hope Lynch dive into the state of software supply chains before discussing a technology advance from McAfee that makes it possible to detect deep fakes. Then the gang turns its attention to a growing right to repair movement that is gaining traction in multiple state legislatures.

Alan, Mike, Amanda, Jon and Steven Dickens, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the reasons why AMD is plunking down $4.9 billion to acquire ZT Systems. Then, the gang turns its attention to an Open Source Software Prevalence Initiative launched by the White House before discussing what’s driving a surge of layoffs in the technology sector.