Alan Shimel is founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, a Futurum company, and a member of Futurum's executive leadership team. A technology entrepreneur, media executive and industry commentator, Shimel has spent more than three decades building businesses, communities and media platforms serving enterprise technology professionals, including co-founding StillSecure, a network security company, and the DevOps Institute, a DevOps certification and training body. At Techstrong, he leads a portfolio of media brands including DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong AI, Techstrong IT, Digital CxO, Platform Engineering, Techstrong Semi and Techstrong TV, along with a growing portfolio of events, educational programs and digital communities. With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Shimel is a familiar voice in the space and was an early advocate of the DevOps movement, helping bring DevOps practices into mainstream enterprise technology. His work today spans cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and digital transformation, and he hosts popular programs including Techstrong Gang, Shimmy Says and Still Cyber, After All These Years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John's University and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School.
NVIDIA Is Putting Real Skin in the Open AI Game
Open AI requires community-governed infrastructure and companies willing to contribute code, engineering and costly GPU cycles. NVIDIA is doing exactly that ...
The Foundation Was Already Poured
Techstrong's Experts Exchange this October, Cloud Native Now: The AI Stack, and this November's KubeCon in Salt Lake City are both making the same case for cloud native and AI. The argument ...
Most Container Images You Pull Today Are Already Full of Vulnerabilities
Container image security has quietly stayed stuck on the same problem it had a decade ago. Finding vulnerabilities is trivial — every major scanner returns pages of them from the average image ...
The AI Native Stack Already Exists. We’ve Been Calling It Cloud Native
Enterprise AI feels like a clean break from everything before it. Look closely at what makes it run in production, and you find fifteen years of cloud native engineering that solved these ...
How Cloud Native Became the AI Native Stack
For the last fifteen years, the cloud native community has been busy doing what it does best: solving hard operational problems, usually before the rest of the industry fully understands why those ...
Securing the Cloud-Native Edge
The job of “protecting the data” in a cloud-native environment used to mean snapshots and offsite copies of stateful workloads. That definition is breaking down quickly. Once an organization starts running RAG ...
Kubernetes Was the Easy Part
Kubernetes was hard. Nobody who lived through the early container years should pretend otherwise. The industry had to learn a new operating model, a new control plane, a new vocabulary and a ...
Cloud Native Is Becoming AI Native
Open Source Summit North America has always been a good place to see where infrastructure is going before the market fully catches up. This year, the signal is not exactly subtle. The ...
The “Golden Ticket” for Cloud-Native Modernization
For years, the case for ripping out a legacy hypervisor was mostly philosophical — the migration cost almost always outweighed the upside. Market consolidation and aggressive licensing changes have flipped that math ...
Cloud-Native Architecture’s Next Test: Holding Up Under Agentic AI
Enterprises are juggling three migrations at once: lifting workloads off legacy virtualization stacks, modernizing what’s already running on Kubernetes, and figuring out where agentic AI fits inside both. Each of those shifts ...
