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

The First AI War is Already Being Fought

March 23, 2026

The era of AI warfare is here. From drone swarms in Ukraine to algorithmic targeting in the 2025 Israel-Iran 12-day war, explore how Silicon Valley software is reshaping the modern battlefield, compressing decision cycles, and redefining the future of global conflict.

AI Sucks the Life Out of the Metaverse

March 20, 2026

Meta didn’t just pivot away from the metaverse. It liquidated it. As AI spending explodes into the hundreds of billions, even trillion-dollar tech giants are shutting down moonshots to feed an insatiable infrastructure arms race. Horizon Worlds is not a surprise casualty. It is the first of many.

Techstrong is Eating its Own Agentic AI Dog Food

March 19, 2026

After two years of covering AI from the outside, Techstrong is now deploying agentic AI across the company’s operations. What started as experiments on a single Mac mini has become a full-scale transformation touching publishing, video, events, sales and leadership workflows. The result isn’t fewer people doing less work. It’s the same people doing far more, far faster, while rewriting how a modern media company actually operates.

AI & Jobs: The Futurum Files

March 19, 2026

Moving beyond speculation, new 2026 data from Futurum Research reveals that 63% of CEOs view AI as a transformative force, not an incremental one. Explore how AI is redistributing work, creating a “Talent Paradox” of simultaneous shortages and displacement, and why enterprise maturity is shifting from experimentation to full-scale production.

A 360-Degree View on the Impact of AI on Jobs

March 18, 2026

Everyone agrees AI will reshape work. Almost no one agrees how. A deep dive into the latest research, real-world signals and frontline conversations reveals a future that is neither mass unemployment nor frictionless utopia — but something far messier, uneven and deeply personal.

Is Meta the Bronx Zoo Yankees of AI?

March 17, 2026

Meta is spending like the late-70s Yankees, buying stars and headlines in the AI race. But as George Steinbrenner learned the hard way, payroll alone doesn’t build a championship team. With delays, internal friction and rivals pulling ahead, the real question is whether Meta can turn a collection of superstars into a coherent machine before the pennant race is already over.

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When Frankenstein’s Monster Turns on the Good Doctor: AI Hits Tech First

March 12, 2026

AI isn’t destroying the technology industry — it’s outperforming it. By producing vastly more code, automating digital labor, reshaping enterprise buying behavior, and forcing new infrastructure and talent models, AI is quietly dismantling the assumptions that built modern tech. What’s happening in Silicon Valley today is a preview of disruption coming for every industry tomorrow.

AI Rivals Unite

March 11, 2026

Silicon Valley competitors rarely defend each other. So when engineers […]

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If AI Can Become Conscious, Can Humans Become Software?

March 11, 2026

For thousands of years humans searched for immortality in religion and faith. Now a new wave of AI startups is exploring something different: A digital afterlife. If machines can someday become conscious, could humans eventually become software?

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