Alan Shimel

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. 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 cybersecurity community and was an early advocate of the DevOps movement, helping bring DevOps practices and culture into mainstream enterprise technology discussions. His work today spans cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and digital transformation. Through his writing, videos, interviews and commentary, he reaches technology executives and practitioners around the world and hosts popular programs including Techstrong Gang, Shimmy Says and Still Cyber, After All These Years. Over the course of his career, Shimel has founded, co-founded and helped build multiple technology and media businesses. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John’s University and a Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School. Away from work, he enjoys traveling, spending time on his boat, Fruition, and being with his wife Bonnie, their two adult sons and Kai’a, the family’s English bulldog.

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AI Infrastructure

Cisco Needs Its Own Silicon to Compete in AI Infrastructure

For most of Cisco’s history, the company occupied a well-defined place in the technology stack. Cisco built the networks that connected everything else. Servers evolved. Storage evolved. Applications evolved. Cisco moved the packets between them. That position created one of the most successful companies in technology history. It may not be enough for the AI […]

Alan Shimel · Jun 3, 2026 · 5 min

AI Silicon

Every AI Story Eventually Becomes a Semiconductor Story

When I started covering technology, semiconductors were one of those industries that most people acknowledged as important but rarely paid much attention to. Chips were the engines underneath the hood. They powered servers, PCs, networking equipment and eventually smartphones, but they generally weren’t the story. The story was the software, the applications, the platforms and […]

Alan Shimel · Jun 2, 2026 · 5 min

Featured

Apple Was the Target. Intel May Be the Casualty

Microsoft and NVIDIA do not usually coordinate their social feeds for fun. So when the two companies posted matching teasers on May 29 promising “a new era of PC,” complete with map coordinates pointing at a venue in Taipei, the timing was not subtle. Computex opens June 2, Jensen Huang has a keynote, and the […]

Alan Shimel · Jun 1, 2026 · 6 min

Nvidia AI accelerator GPU board in a data center, representing the company's delicate balancing act across global semiconductor markets.

AI Infrastructure

NVIDIA Plays a Delicate Balancing Game

NVIDIA’s recent announcement that it plans to invest roughly $150 billion annually in Taiwan and establish a major headquarters presence there generated headlines around the world. Given Taiwan’s role in the semiconductor industry, the move was hardly surprising. TSMC manufactures NVIDIA’s most advanced chips, and the broader ecosystem of suppliers, packaging specialists and manufacturing partners […]

Alan Shimel · Jun 1, 2026 · 5 min

Featured

The AI Tariff We Are All Going to Pay (And it’s Not Energy Prices)

I recently wrote about the BYOP movement, where datacenter providers are increasingly making datacenter plans that include dedicated power, so consumers do not wind up paying a tax for the data center industry’s exploding energy demands. But there is another, perhaps bigger AI tax that we are going to

Alan Shimel · Mar 10, 2026 · 5 min