Techstrong Research Review

Mike has a special announcement. Then, Mitch and Mike talk about what they expect over the next 18 months in the areas of security, DevOps and cloud native. It's a good way to wrap the show and hand Mitch the reins of Techstrong Research.

Mitch and Mike talk about the upcoming Predict conference in January 2024, discussing a bit about how we'll cover how AI is impacting all areas of our technology coverage. They also highlight an "AI Hackathon" happening at Techstrong HQ in Boca and some of the potential ideas and technologies coming out of that meeting.

In this week's Techstrong Research Review, Mitch and Mike discuss where open source plays into the enterprise tech stack. With various software providers publishing under business licenses (as opposed to open source), how should enterprises interpret those moves? Should they continue leveraging open source where possible? They discuss these topics and more.

In this episode of Techstrong Research Review, Mitch and Mike meet at Black Hat 2023 to discuss the evolving landscape of AI and its profound influence on cybersecurity.

Mitch and Mike turn their focus back to AI this week and discuss how to make it real. Mike talks about a workshop he attended involving building a strategy for generative AI, and Mitch mentioned the upcoming Techstrong AI Hackathon, where we'll be prototyping some new stuff to help deliver value through our content using a variety of AI capabilities. The net is: Tech folks have to start learning about AI ASAP and getting ready for the inevitable resulting business transformation efforts.

In this week's Techstrong Research Review, Mitch and Mike start by talking about the death of Kevin Mitnick and his impact on the security business. Then they discuss Mitch's trip to the Splunk .conf23 conference, where he found out about Splunk's AI plans and how the new management team is changing things.

Mitch and Mike aren't going gangster in this week's Techstrong Research Review, rather discuss the critical topic of how to find a position in the innovative areas we cover like cloud native, DevOps, cybersecurity and AI. For those with some IT skills, they discuss where to get hands-on experience and the importance of a learner's mindset. For those not interested in these new innovations, that's OK too, and they discuss how organizations can handle those folks who like what they do and are probably good at it.

In this week's Techstrong Research Review, Mitch and Mike discuss the Wells Notice served to SolarWinds' CISO and CFO and the longer-term ramifications for breach disclosure. To be clear, there is limited information and speculation abounds, but anyone in a leadership position must now make sure they have proper disclosure and reporting processes in place.

In this week's Techstrong Research Review, Mitch and Mike discuss how and when to use system integrators and other service companies when facing economic headwinds. They discuss Mitch and Alan's recent trip to a Coforge analyst meeting and some ongoing research the team is doing to quantify the impact of SIs on delivering services. The key message is you can't do it all yourself.

In this week's TS Research Review, Mitch and Mike talk about making the mental jump to allowing developers to make changes in operational and security functions and what scanning and guardrails are important to maintain the environment's integrity. It's the only way to scale, but that doesn't make it easy.

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.