Techstrong Gang

Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group, examine a recent ruling that limits the scope of the case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against SolarWinds. Then, they discuss the degree to which Microsoft can hold the European Union (EU) accountable for the recent global Windows outage. Finally, the gang turns its attention to how the charging of electronic vehicles (EVs) might soon improve.

Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Tracy Bannon, John Willis and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for data infrastructure at The Futurum Group, dive into the root causes and downstream impact of a catastrophic Windows outage caused by a CrowdStrike update. Then, the gang turns its attention to closing the divide that exists between developers and senior managers before delving into a growing uneasiness about the current state of artificial intelligence (AI) model security.

Mike, Mitch, Jon and Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, dive into how the geopolitics of chip manufacturing is likely to impact IT organizations before examining the relationship between high interest rates and the pace of innovation. Then, the gang turns its attention to whether a four-year college degree is really needed to succeed in IT.

Mike, Bonnie, Jon and special guests Mark Hinkle and Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst for The Futurum Group, dive into the current state of the artificial intelligence (AI) hype cycle. Then, they discuss whether the ability to build applications faster than ever using AI might turn out to be too much of a good thing. Next, the gang turns its attention to the need to incorporate sustainability metrics that are now being incorporated into best FinOps practices. Finally, Bob Reselman asks an essential but overlooked question about choice: What happens to our ability to make a choice when we only have to choose among two or three things?

Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Chris Blask, explore why Google might be buying Wiz, a provider of a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). Then, they take a look at the root causes of a raft of breaches involving cloud platforms such as Snowflake. Finally, the gang turns its attention to how deepfakes enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are, for better or worse, sowing more seeds of distrust.

Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Guy Currier, CTO for Visual Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, look into at the current state of observability before discussing why, all of sudden, more focus than ever on bringing compute to data is creating a need for enterprise architects. Then, the gang turns its attention to why there is so much greenwashing as of late and what to do about it.

Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Tracy Ragan and Paul Nashawaty, practice lead for application development at The Futurum Group, dive into the latest artificial intelligence (AI) advances being made by Amazon Web Services (AWS) before taking a look at the sorry state of application programming interface (API) management. Then, the gang turns its attention to the causes of burnout among software engineering teams and how AI might improve it.

Mike, Mitch, and special guests Chris Blask, Cory Johnson, chief market strategist for The Futurum Group, and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into whether a generative artificial intelligence (AI) bubble is about to burst. Then, the gang turns its attention to the evolving role of the CISO before discussing the implications of botnets being used to spread disinformation at scale.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and Jon delve into the implications of an apparent failure by the Cyber Safety Review Board to fully review the SolarWinds attack in 2021. Then, the gang dives into why more progress hasn’t been made in the realm of Industrial DevOps before highlighting the need for increased circularity to achieve sustainability goals.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Guy Currier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, discuss whether it is nobler to build artificial intelligence (AI) models or simply invoke models that already exist. Then, they move on to the underappreciated need for faster networks in the age of AI. Next, the gang turns its attention to the pressing need to migrate away from passwords to embrace passkeys, in the wake of the discovery of a cache of nearly one billion passwords stored in plain text. Finally, in a new edition of Byte Me, Ira Winkler addresses why the concept of "Thinking Like a Hacker" is wrong.