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

Train as We Say, Not as We Do

September 1, 2026

Anthropic says Chinese AI labs improperly used Claude’s outputs to train competing models. Now music publishers accuse Anthropic of building Claude with copyrighted works acquired through torrents and scraping. The legal claims differ, but the contradiction is becoming difficult to ignore.

Nvidia’s New AI Takeover Playbook

August 25, 2026

Nvidia’s reported Poolside deal reveals an emerging AI strategy: license strategic technology, hire the team behind it and expand across the AI stack without acquiring the entire company.

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The Agentic Era Demands an AI Governance Control Plane

August 18, 2026

AI governance is shifting from policies and committees to enforceable runtime control. As autonomous agents gain access to data, tools and transactions, enterprises need a governance control plane that preserves visibility, limits permissions and keeps humans accountable.

Claude’s Scarlet Letter

August 13, 2026

An invisible watermark may tell us that Claude touched a piece of writing. It cannot tell us who conceived it, shaped it or ultimately owns the words.

When the Data Center Comes Home

August 13, 2026

Project Tango brings the AI data-center debate home to Palm Beach County, raising questions about zoning, water, power, environmental risk and local control.

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