As founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief at Techstrong Group, Alan manages a broad array of businesses and brands including Techstrong Media (DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Digital CxO, Techstrong.ai, Techstrong ITSM and Techstrong TV), Techstrong Research and Techstrong Learning. To do so and succeed, Alan has to be attuned to the world of technology, particularly DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud-native and digital transformation.
With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations.
Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chat podcast and Techstrong TV audio and video appearances are widely followed.
Alan attributes his success to the combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality.
Mr. Shimel is a graduate of St. John's University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.
In this DevOps Chat, we sit down with Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO and co-founder of Tasktop. Mik besides being the founder of Tasktop, is also the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open ...
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DevOps.com catches up with Chef's busy CMO Ken Cheney. Ken give us the inside look at AWS's OpsWorks for Chef Automate. While this is an AWS offering it is based on Chef ...
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Our first podcast of 2017 is with Aruna Ravichandran, co-author of DevOps for Digital Leaders. Of course when not authoring books or helping financially challenged but gifted students attend college, Aruna is ...
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