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

Cisco Wants to Be the OS for AI Infrastructure

June 2, 2026

For years, networking was treated as infrastructure plumbing. AI is changing that equation. As enterprises move beyond GPUs and models toward operating AI at scale, Cisco is betting the next strategic layer is the network itself.

The People Behind the Data Never Got a Cut

May 27, 2026

Futurum’s acquisition of ETR looks like a data play. Shimmy says it’s something more complicated — a bet that the future of technology research belongs to firms that can combine analyst expertise with direct market evidence, and a question about whether that combination actually works.

The AI Industrial Complex

May 25, 2026

The proposed 40,000-acre Stratos AI project in Utah highlights the rise of an “AI Industrial Complex,” where aligned corporate, political, and national security incentives drive massive infrastructure expansion with minimal public scrutiny.

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.

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