Techstrong Gang

Mike, Jon, Teri Robinson and Tom Hollingsworth dive into the merits of an xAI lawsuit that accuses Apple and OpenAI of engaging in an "anticompetitive scheme" to limit the distribution of rival artificial intelligence (AI) agent software.

Then the gang takes a look at how Broadcom is managing VMware following the conclusion of the VMware Explorer conference before assessing the degree to which building and applying software patches...

Alan, Mike, Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella, Futurum president Dan O'Brien and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of the Futurum Group, dive into a report that projects by 2029 the revenue value of the semiconductor market will exceed half a trillion dollars by 2029 before debating how the energy needed to achieve that level might actually be provided.

Then the gang discusses the state of the mainframe following a SHA...

In this episode of the Techstrong Gang, host Alan Shimel is joined by JP Morgenthal and Stephen Foskett to discuss the implications of the U.S. partnership with Intel, which includes a 10% government stake. The conversation raises concerns about government involvement in production and how it could reshape market competition.

The gang also dives into the state of the AI industry, examining whether we’re in an AI bubble, the challen...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jack Poller and Dr. Stacy Thayer debate the DevSecOps significance of a software understanding being led by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) before diving into an effort to shift more responsibility for data privacy  further left along with application security and compliance issues.

Then the gang delves into the way drones are being used to help reduce the volume of illegal immigratio...

Alan, Mike. Mitch. Chis Blask, Kate Scarcella and Futurum president and COO Dan O'Brien discuss the degree to which CIOs are becoming more flexible and astute when it comes to deploying application workloads before debating the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) agents might transform the fundamental economics of IT.

Then the gang turns its attention to how citizen and professional application developers might, hopefully,...

Alan, Mike, JP Morgenthal and Stephen Foskett, president for The Tech Field Day arm of the Futurum Group, dive into reports that suggest Apple is gearing up to make a major artificial intelligence (AI) push starting next year before delving into the implications of some recent licensing changes that Microsoft is making to its volume discount plan for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.

Then the gang takes a look at data cent...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jack Poller and Wicky Wang dive into an application security report that finds more breaches than ever are being caused by vulnerabilities in code that organizations are allowing to be deployed despite the level of risk they represent to their end customers.

Then the gang takes a look at the impact the Cyber Reliance Act (CRA) being advanced by the European Union (EU) is likely to have on cybersecurity before dis...

Today on the gang, Garima, Jon, Mike and Mitch are joined by Futurum CEO, Daniel Newman, to announce Futurum Signal, the latest innovation to usher in a new era in the analyst/guidance industry. The gang then goes on to discuss Perplexity's $34b plus offer for Google Chrome, PR stunt or serious? And in a case of how quickly things change in the world of US politics and semis, the Intel CEO is now back in the good graces of the Whit...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Tracy Ragan and Jack Poller debate the degree to which calls for the CEO of Intel to resign because of unsubstantiated ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are justified.

Then the gang assesses the validity of a survey of C-level executives that claim to be seeing massive returns from investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate software development before discussing the current state of cybersecu...

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Tracy Ragan and Jack Poller debate the degree to which calls for the CEO of Intel to resign because of unsubstantiated ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are justified.

Then the gang assesses the validity of a survey of C-level executives that claim to be seeing massive returns from investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate software development before discussing the current state of cybersecu...

Mike, Mitch, Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella and Futurum Group analyst Guy Currier debate when, how, or even if, it might be possible to cost-effectively enable the consumption of 2,000 tokens per second as part of a goal to make working with artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools more fluid.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, JP Morgenthal and Alastair Cooke dive into the current mindset of IT professionals during these uncertain technological and economic times before reviewing a Tech Field Day event that focused on the latest edition of the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).

Then the gang takes a look at AGNTCY, an open source project for securely integrating artificial intelligence (AI) agents that has been contributed by Cisco to the ...