
RSAC’s Innovation Sandbox Contest showcased over $18.1 billion in follow‑on funding, more than 100 acquisitions, and AI‑centric finalists, backed by a $5 million Crosspoint grant and expanded early‑stage programs. OpenTelemetry’s growing adoption is prompting the creation of unified observability warehouses that combine logs, metrics, and traces for real‑time analytics. AI‑driven development agents are reshaping the software development lifecycle, but recent security lapses like the MoltBot/OpenClaw episode highlight the urgency of governance. Meanwhile, Hammerspace introduced a metadata‑driven global namespace to eliminate data silos and speed AI pipelines across hybrid clouds.

TechStrongTV’s February 20 episode spotlights Kevin Green, co‑founder and chief marketing officer of Hapix, a startup building AI‑driven solutions for community banks and credit unions. Green explains that beyond product features, controlling the narrative around AI adoption is critical in a...

Datadog’s CISO Emilio Escobar urged security teams to adopt AI proactively, linking observability with threat detection ahead of RSA. Bill Mulligan highlighted eBPF’s rise as enterprises embed observability, networking, and security directly into the Linux kernel for lower latency and...

The episode questions whether AI agents must be truly intelligent or simply effective at completing tasks. It highlights the ongoing "parrot problem" debate while noting that enterprises already rely on agents for drafting documents, ticket routing, and log analysis. The...

The episode questions whether AI agents must be truly intelligent or simply effective at completing tasks. It highlights the ongoing debate over AI’s “understanding” versus its role as a practical workflow engine in enterprises. Real‑world use cases—document drafting, ticket routing,...

TechStrong TV featured Mike Manos, chief technology officer of Dun & Bradstreet, discussing how the 186‑year‑old firm is reinventing itself through cloud migration and artificial‑intelligence initiatives. Manos outlined a five‑year transformation that moved D&B from legacy data centers to a...

Mike Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet, described a five-year modernization push to transform the 186-year-old data company into a cloud-first, AI-enabled enterprise. He said D&B now ingests and processes north of five exabytes of data nightly across more than...

Panelists unpack a surge of AI-generated contributions swamping open-source projects, dubbing the influx 'eternal September' as maintainers face a flood of low-quality or poorly formatted pull requests. Firms and communities are experimenting with AI code reviewers and automation on platforms...

The episode of TechStrong TV featured Brian Dawson, director of product management Linux at CIQ, discussing the company’s launch of a hardened version of Rocky Linux designed to meet the security demands of the AI‑driven compute era. Dawson highlighted that AI...

The episode tackles the surge of AI‑generated contributions flooding open‑source ecosystems, a phenomenon the panel dubs “eternal September.” Newcomers—often AI‑assisted—are flooding repositories with pull requests, forcing maintainers to confront a relentless stream of code they must triage, review, and...

Now Secure CEO Alan Snyder told Techstrong TV that mobile is now ubiquitous and the primary interface for customers and employees, driving revenue and growing share of digital interactions each year. He says AI has made app development dramatically easier—he...