Techstrong Gang

In today's Techstrong Gang, Alan is joined by Jon Swartz and Lisa Martin.  They discuss the recently announced merger of Omnicon and Interpublic advertising agencies. What impact did AI have on this? What about big tech? The gang also dives into the "scheme issues" with the latest model from OpenAI. Are we expecting perfection? Is that reasonable? Finally, the gang looks at a recent DevOps.com article on whether shift left has stalled -- and, if so, why. It's another great episode of Techstrong Gang. 

Alan, Mike, Jon, Amanda and Guy Gurrier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, discuss how global trade tensions with China will impact IT. Then, they discuss the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting healthcare insurance in the wake of the tragic murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Finally, the gang turns its attention to how technology is being used to make driving in snowy winter conditions safer.

Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guests Traci Bannon and Camberly Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group debate the merits of the Trump administration appointment of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Crypto Czar before discussing how AI in combination with satellite technology is being used to save forests. Then the gang turns its attention to a Tech Field Day event that shines a spotlight on the networking challenges that organizations now face.

Alan, Mike and special guests John Willis, Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visual Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the debate about remote work following reports from Stanford University and Sen. Jodi Ernst (R-IW). Then, the gang takes a look at what it might or might not mean to be an artificial intelligence (AI) engineer before delving deeper into the latest customer retention report from CrowdStrike in the wake of the infamous Windows outage.

Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor at The Futurum Group, delve into just how catastrophic the breach of telecommunications networks being attributed to China really is. Then, the gang turns its attention to the record amount of spending that occurred on Cyber Monday before discussing the impact the Heroku platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment from Salesforce might have on accelerating the development of cloud-native applications destined to run on Kubernetes clusters.

Today’s Techstrong Gang is a bit different -- it is an intimate lineup of just Alan Shimel and Jon Swartz in person from the Techstrong TV studio at AWS re:Invent. Jon and Alan discuss what AWS's end goal is and assumptions they are making that are driving many of the product and service announcements. Then, they discuss how the AWS ecosystem works in the AWS model.

Alan, Mike and Mitch, live at the AWS re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas, dive into everything from Nova foundational models that were unfurled to the latest extensions of Amazon Q Developer that promise to make it simpler to modernize legacy applications.

In today’s Techstrong Gang, Alan is in Las Vegas with Camberley Bates for AWS re:Invent. They are joined by Jon Swartz and Bonnie Schneider to discuss the “retirement” of Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, and what it means. Then, they discuss the FTC opening an investigation of Microsoft, and lastly, Bonnie has a report from COP29, the global climate summit recently held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Jon dive into the ramifications of a global Microsoft outage before discussing the likelihood that the Department of Justice (DoJ) in the U.S. might be able to force Google to sell off its browser. Then, the gang turns its attention to what DevOps teams might expect to see from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in advance of the AWS re:invent 2024 conference this week.

Alan, Mike, Mitch and Amanda dive into the ten things IT professionals can be thankful for during uncertain times, including everything from generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the rise of platform engineering to better cybersecurity and even lower interest rates.