5 articles that week
Techstrong.IT, Thursday, April 9th, 2026
Shadow IT has always been a concern for the IT department. The problem used to be users introducing unauthorized SaaS subscriptions or applications to make their job easier, while initiating new security and management headaches for IT.
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Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
Engineering teams have stayed in the cloud for a decade because owning hardware used to mean owning the maintenance. The trade-off seemed simple. You pay a premium to offload the manual provisioning and operational toil associated with physical nodes.
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
One of the things you learn running infrastructure is that percentages can lie. Back in the dot-com days, I spent a good amount of time in the hosting industry. Reliability was the name of the game. And very early on, I learned that a number that sounds good in marketing can be terrible in the real world.
more → Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
As Windows 10 nears the end of its extended support cycle, hundreds of millions of older PCs are left without security updates or a clear upgrade path. Google is offering a solution: update these vintage machines to ChromeOS Flex.
more → Techstrong.IT, Monday, April 6th, 2026
A recent article in Gizmodo titled 'Wearables Are Getting Very Messy' highlights a growing wave of disputes in the wearable technology market. The piece points to lawsuits, accusations of copied designs and patent fights spreading across companies building fitness trackers, smart rings and smart glasses.
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