Techstrong TV March 13, 2026
The Future of Mainframe Modernization: Robin Macfarlane, CEO of RR Mac Associates, discusses how enterprises can modernize mission-critical mainframe environments by integrating DevOps tooling like Git and Visual Studio Code while preserving decades of institutional knowledge.
AI Security & Governance: Ryan Jones of Microsoft and Fernando Montenegro examine how organizations can safely scale agentic applications using Microsoft Power Platform governance features such as managed environments, adaptive risk models and lifecycle controls.
Inside the Bell Labs Reliability Model: Mitch Ashley and Scott Robohn break down how operational discipline, automation and AI-driven monitoring—pioneered by Nokia Bell Labs—can push data center fabrics toward five-nines availability.
Tech Field Day News Rundown: Tom Hollingsworth and Chris Grundemann cover major developments including IronCurtain AI Assistant from Niels Provos and enterprise analytics updates like Qlik Answers.
Humanity’s God Complex: Are We Building Beyond Our Control?: In this episode of Shimmy Says, Alan “Shimmy” Shimel explores humanity’s twin obsessions: creating intelligence in our own image and escaping mortality through technology. From AI consciousness and superintelligence to digital afterlives and mind uploading, these trends reveal something profound about human nature — and where we may be headed.
Storage Efficiency for the AI Era: Scott Shadley from Solidigm discusses the immense storage demands of next-generation AI infrastructure, highlighting ultra-high-capacity SSDs and collaborations with VAST Data to support large-scale GPU clusters built around platforms like NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300.
