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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Friday Oct 24, 2025
Friday Oct 24, 2025
Alan, Mike, Jon, Chris Blask, Ira Winkler, Fred Wilmot and Futurum Group president Dan O'Brien dive into how alliances between providers of artificial intelligence (AI) platforms such as Google, Anthropic, IBM and Groq are creating some strange bedfellows.
Then the gang takes a look at the degree to which cybersecurity teams are starting to lose the AI arms race before debating to what level observability is now being applied across the entire IT estate.
Thursday Oct 23, 2025
Thursday Oct 23, 2025
Alan, Mike, Jon, Garima Bajpai and Teri Robinson take a hard look at the degree to which Silicon Valley may have lost its way in age of oligarch.
Then the gang dives into the AI browser wars following the launch of new alternative from Open AI before discussing the implications of a lawsuit thay involves how facial recogntion technology is being used at Madison Square Garden.
Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
Mike, Mitch, JP Morgenthal and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of the Futurum Group, dive into the lessons to be learned from this week's global Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud outage.
Then the gang takes a look at NetApp's evolving data management strategy in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) and how Kubernetes could be better managed using Talos Linux in the wake of two conferences held last week.
Monday Oct 20, 2025
Monday Oct 20, 2025
Mitch Ashley, Stephen Foskett, and Jack Poller explore the growing importance of security in the age of AI and intelligent agents. The discussion emphasizes the need for strong security protocols to address identity, anonymity, and access control challenges before AI agents are widely deployed.
The panel also examines vulnerabilities in developer tools and IDEs, highlighting how graph technology can help organizations better understand attacker behavior, improve visibility, and strengthen defenses across distributed environments.
Monday Oct 20, 2025
Monday Oct 20, 2025
Guest host Jon Swartz is joined by Ira Winkler and Fred Wilmot to explore how AI is transforming DevSecOps — from automating remediation to managing vulnerabilities across the entire software development lifecycle.
The panel discusses how 75% of IT professionals already use AI and another 13% plan to adopt it soon. They dive into the benefits and risks of AI integration, including trust, complexity, and security concerns, and call out the marketing bias often found in industry surveys.
Monday Oct 20, 2025
Monday Oct 20, 2025
Mike, Alan, Mitch, Jon and Teri Robsinson parse dueling artificial intelligence (AI) strategies put forward this week by Oracle and Salesforce before taking a look at an AI platform from Red Hat that promises to make it simpler to deploy AI workloads across a distributed computing environment.
Then the gang takes a look at the current state of cybersecurity at a time when the rate of technological innovation may now be faster than organizations can effectively secure.
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Mike Vizard, Mitch Ashley, Dan O’Brien, and Chris Blask explore how Broadcom’s partnership with OpenAI is transforming the AI chip market, driving innovation in custom silicon and improving inference performance.
The Techstrong Gang also discusses Microsoft’s integration of GitHub into Azure, emphasizing the growing need for cybersecurity-first development. The conversation highlights how embedding security in the coding process and continuously improving IT practices are critical for the next wave of AI-driven infrastructure.
Wednesday Oct 15, 2025
Wednesday Oct 15, 2025
Alan, Mike, Sanjeev Sharma and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of Futurum Group, dive into how the latest escalation in in the ongoing tariff wars will impact adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
Then the gang takes a look at the IT service management (ITSM) wars now that Salesforce has entered the market before discussing to what degree has the storage of unstructured data become a hoarding problem.
Wednesday Oct 15, 2025
Wednesday Oct 15, 2025
Host Alan Shimel is joined by Camberley Bates, Robert Reeves, Jack Poller, and Jack Gold to explore the expanding API economy and its impact on enterprise systems and revenue — especially in the telecommunications sector.
The gang discusses how agentic AI leverages APIs to improve efficiency in energy and server consumption, while also examining the challenges of modern data center construction and the implications of large-scale AI investments in today’s fast-evolving market landscape.
Friday Oct 10, 2025
Friday Oct 10, 2025
Alan, Mike, Jon and Gina Rosenthal take a look at the state of DevOps in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) before discussing the impact AI agents might have on the way IT is managed.
The gang then dives into the need for greater IT resiliency following a New Relic report that puts the cost of downtime at $2 million an hour.