Alan Shimel

Alan Shimel

About the Author:

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.

Articles by Alan Shimel

SUSE Ascendant

April 22, 2026

Reflecting on over 30 years of open-source innovation, SUSE arrives at a pivotal moment in Prague. As global shifts in digital sovereignty, AI infrastructure, and cloud-native platforms redefine the industry, SUSE positions itself as the resilient backbone of the next era of enterprise technology.

Nine Out of Ten Isn’t Good Enough

April 9, 2026

Google’s AI answers may be right most of the time. But at internet scale, even small error rates turn into a flood of misinformation.

All the Best Data Center Invites Are BYOP

March 6, 2026

The AI boom has triggered the largest data center expansion in decades, yet new projects are slowing in many places. The constraint is not chips, land or capital. It is electricity. As grid capacity tightens and communities push back on rising power demand, hyperscalers are discovering a new rule of AI infrastructure. If you want to build the next generation of data centers, bring your own power.

They Won in Court—That Doesn’t Make Them Right

March 2, 2026

A federal judge blocked Virginia’s attempt to limit social media use for children under 16, citing First Amendment violations. The ruling was legally sound — the law was badly drafted. But the tech industry’s victory lap deserves scrutiny. The same platforms funding mental health research are the ones fighting every law designed to act on it. That is not concern. That is liability management.

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