Roger Strukhoff earned a BA with honors from Knox College, a Certificate in Technical Communications from UC-Berkeley, and an MBA from CSU-East Bay. His work recently won a "Stevie" American Business Award as best publication in its category. His volunteer work in international affairs merited a Letter of Commendation from the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. He splits most of his time between Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia, but can also be found at 
“The first thing I want to be clear about is that we don’t view ourselves as a solution for companies to reduce costs,” he told me in a recent interview at CCT’s headquarters in the Clark Special Economic Zone, a couple hours north of Manila in the state of Pampanga. “The most importan...Dec. 10, 2009 02:41 PM EST Reads: 123
The Obama Administration has decided that Asia matters. Driven primarily by the specter of emerging Chinese economic might, the President is nonetheless embracing the region as a whole.
Tear down those trade walls, Professor Obama! The Obama Administration has decided that Asia matters. Driven primarily by the specter of emerging Chinese economic might, the President is nonetheless embracing the region as a whole. Set aside his glib use of his childhood years in Indon...
Quit when you're on top, kid. Manny Pacquiao, the Pambansang Kamao ("National Fist") of the Philippines, beat the living tar out of the very tough amigo Miguel Cotto on Sunday afternoon, November 15, 2009, keeping a skein of big victories intact and once again upholding the pride of an...
The reality is that technology CEOs - least of all flamboyant ones - aren't in the trenches getting things to work for customers, and Wang's nuts-and-bolts presentation was meant to re-assure anyone who was listening that the company will support all types of cloud initiatives. Meanwhi...
The zebra in this analogy is the private cloud, where corporate IT departments feel safe controlling everything internally, and not risking exposure to the perceived tigers "out there" in the public cloud arena. But Tejada stated that in the end, large-scale IT initiatives always conce...
Yahoo! is, of course, has one of the larger IT installations you will find: 600 million unique website visitors each month worldwide, 300 million email addresses, and "hundreds of petabytes of data," Shugar said. So now, "we are building a private cloud to be used within Yahoo!, have d...
"This is a long-term activity. started a few years ago," Shugar said. "And prior to cloud we might have had to literally forklift machines and move them when we want to move capacity. With cloud serving we are building a flat network and can basically point and click and move capacity ...
"Measuring, metering, and monitoring the work, and understand its physics so that you can understand where to move it and how" are mission-critical aspects of analyzing cloud computing processes, he noted. Adaptivity CEO Tony Bishop took his audience through a tour of what the self-des...
"Like our public cloud offering, Unisys SPCS goes a long way towards allaying the security concerns of enterprises and their customers," said Marcello during the company's formal strategy announcement. "Unisys SPCS presents chief information officers with a way to realise the full oper...
“We see Traffic Server as an essential building block for cloud computing, and at Yahoo!, it’s integral to our edge services, on-line storage and cloud serving. The open-sourcing of Traffic Server is representative of our company-wide commitment to sharing technology innovation with th...
Marcello also stressed that cloud computing installations must be able to run enterprise applications. "What the folks at salesforce.com have done, for example, is very impressive," he noted. "But we also need to move all these Dotnet and Java enterprise applications to the cloud.." Fu...
Yahoo! aims to be one of the 800-pound gorillas--along with Google, Amazon, and several major technology companies--in the upcoming battles for hosting dominance in the Cloud Computing space. Yahoo aims to be one of the 800-pound gorrillas--along with Google, Amazon, and several major ...
Marcello will be delivering the Expo's initial keynote address, at 2pm on Monday, delivering his views on why "The Time is Right for Enterprise Cloud Computing."Marcello, who spent many years at another enterprise technology giant, HP, before joining Unisys, outlined his vision and vi...
I'll be reporting on www.cloudcomputingexpo.com next week, even though I'm 7,500 miles away from its Santa Clara location. It starts Monday morning, and features keynotes from Yahoo, Oracle, and Unisys.
I'll be watching it live on www.sys-con.tv, between the hours of 1am and 9am loc...
It's already Christmas season in the Philippines by early October. But there's the matter of the Day of the Dead on November 1, the third most important holiday here after Christmas and Holy Week.
Rebecca Wanta is the CEO & President of RSW1C Consulting. In that role, she's worked with many Fortune 50+ companies, including Best Buy, Target, DuPont, Cargill, 3M, GE, P&G, Caterpillar, KLA-Tencor, and State Compensation Insurance Fund. During her career, she's served as CTO of Well...
Random thoughts on a lovely evening.
So, after decades of economic decline, withering criticism from all corners of the world, initial weakness in assuming the role of "the world's only superpower," and a recently completed eight years of unilateral policy that alienated much of the world, the United States remains the co...
The Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary is a non-government organization staffed by dedicated volunteers who provide search-and-rescue, public education, environmental protection, and other civic-minded services in assistance to the Philippine Coast Guard. The group is accepting donations...
Lars Kurth is Contributing Community Manager at the Symbian Foundation, based in London. A recent interview with him at OSCON in San Jose revealed a witty, experienced architect who is serious about community development.
Bluenog co-founder and CIO Sastry Taruvai was in attendance at the recent OSCON in San Jose. In an exclusive interview, he talked a bit about what the company's background, why it does what it does, and a few big rules for software developers.
You can play in traffic in Manila and live to tell the story...most times.
As G20 leaders gather in Pittsburgh, the newly-wealthy Asian nations in the group want "more input" on how the world is run. Fair enough, but are they ready to lead?
Arrival at Ninoy Aquino International Airport is great, until you go outside.
IT budgets don't simply disappear, but it can be difficult to get what you want during tough economic times. But if you focus on the business value your chances will improve. You’re in a squeeze. How things ultimately shake out is not relevant right now, because you need to act right n...
An entire generation of users doesn't seem to have a problem with Microsoft. Many of their elders still do, and some of us would like to see Google kick some Microsoft butt, oh for sure for sure.
The deconstructed, loosely coupled yet unified musical principles of Anton Webern about a century ago bear an eerie resemblance to what SOA practictioners are doing today with enterprise IT.
There is a homegrown recession in India, partially driven by job losses related to the collapse of the financial services industry in the US and Europe. But maybe this correction is a good thing, as it is making India more affordable again.
I just read the Gladwell piece about basketball and the story of David and Goliath. It's funny, a friend of mine has a similar theory about music and The Ten Commandments.
Sorry, got a little distracted by the megadeal last week. I see I wrote four entries about the deal, which was probably at least one too many.Yet I spent too many years writing, publishing, and producing for Sun to let this deal go
The discussions have begun about the seismic nature of the Oracle-Sun deal. This deal affects all the major players, as well as you!
