Techstrong Gang

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, and Jeff Reich break down the Nobel Prize–winning advancements in quantum computing and what they mean for the future of technology.

The Gang explores how breakthroughs in qubits, post-quantum cryptography, and quantum entanglement are paving the way toward practical applications. They also examine the energy demands of both AI and quantum computing — and how these two fields may ultimately converge to shape a smarter, more secure future.

Alan, Mike, Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella and Futurum Group president and COO Dan O'Brien dive into how IT infrastructure will need to rapidly evolve to enable agentic artificial intelligence (AI) applications to efficiently run before discussing what's causing an alarming increase of fires in data centers.

Then the gang dives into a misplaced tendency to blame third-party service providers whenever there is a cybersecurity issue even though the ultimate responsibility for a problem that arose can never be outsourced.

Alan, Mike, JP Morgenthal, Chhaya Gunawat dive into the alliance between OpenAI and AMD as part of a larger discussion about the rapid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator advances.

Then the gang turns its attention to the impact AI will have the cost of compliance before taking a look at some of the latest cybersecurity technologies developed by Microsoft