Mike and Mitch cover their perspectives on the recent RSA Conference, including what's hot, what's not, and where AI fits into the security landscape. The general consensus is that RSAC is back, which is a good thing for the security industry.

In this week's TSR Review, Mitch and Mike jump in the time machine back to a day when networking was the critical skill in infrastructure. But is the network still relevant in a cloud-native environment? The short answer is... of course networking is still important, but with caveats related to software-defined networking, accessing critical data that remains on-prem and making sure there is still networking know-how available to the app and cloud teams.

This week Mike and Mitch revisit the TSR Cloud-Native trends released at Predict 2023 and highlight some recent announcements about the maturation of cloud-native management and security capabilities. After taking a victory lap, they dig into why these kinds of enterprise offerings are critical to maintain the pace of adoption of cloud-native tech.

Mitch and Mike circle back to AI in this week's Techstrong Research Review. Some parties want to pull back on AI (notably Elon Musk), and good luck to them on that. Pandora is out of the box, so we talk about how AI is impacting day to day jobs and the work Microsoft is doing to integrate AI into all of their major product lines. Exciting times ahead and Techstrong will be out front researching and covering it.

In this week's Techstrong Research Review, Mitch and Mike dig into all things data, as we ramp up our new DataOps Connect conference in August. There are plenty of issues with enterprise data, including visibility, enforcing applicable security controls, and governance/compliance challenges. They also feel for the Data Czar's within enterprise companies that have to provide order to the data chaos.

In this week's Techstrong Research Review, Mike and Mitch talk a bit about sustainability, given it's a new focus of Techstrong. They discuss the economic link between code and DevOps efficiency and sustainability and some of the far-reaching ramifications of this line of thinking.

Mitch and Mike dig into the edge in this week's Techstrong Research Review, looking at it from the perspective of technology platforms (K0s and K3s), networking, application support, and organizational evolution to support edge use cases. It'll be a key area of focus for TSR this year, so it's neither the first nor the last time we'll tackle the edge.

Mike tells some stories from his trip to Asia, and then he and Mitch discuss the evolution of networking in a cloud-native world. They dig into how networking professionals need to evolve and change their views on building networks.

Mitch and Mike go through their thoughts on software security, which was the subject of their DevOps Asia Summit talk, which was postponed to July. They also introduce a new segment called, “What’s your beef?” Mitch goes off on T-mobile for their (lack of) API security posture.

In this week’s Techstrong Research Review, Mitch and Mike examine the impact of generative-AI (or lack thereof) on DevOps and security. They also wonder what happened to 5G, which seems to have gotten lost in the trough of disillusionment.