By Roger Strukhoff
November 16, 2009 09:30 AM EST
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 Indonesia as making him the
"first pacific Pr... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 15, 2009 11:23 PM EST
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 Indonesia as making him the
"first pacific Pr... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 15, 2009 09:06 AM EST
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 entire nation of more t... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 11, 2009 08:00 AM EST
Cloud Computing Expo on Ulitzer
Rex Wang, VP of Product Marketing at Oracle took the audience through a tour
of the company's offerings during his keynote presentation at the 4th
International CloudComputing Expo in Santa Clara Wednesday morning, November
4. He also made the key... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 4, 2009 12:45 PM EST
Zebras and tigers and bears, oh my!
Well, there were no bears on an invigorating Power Panel at the 4th
International Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara Tuesday night, but the
subject of the two striped animals mentioned above did come up.
Re-visiting a topic that re-appears dur... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 3, 2009 01:15 PM EST
Yahoo! SVP Shelton Shugar, speaking at the 4th International Cloud Computing
Expo, outlined some of the detail involved in serving 600 million users per
month while handling hundreds of petabytes of data.
"We are building a private cloud to be used within Yahoo!," he said. Hundred... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 3, 2009 01:15 PM EST
Yahoo! SVP Shelton Shugar formalized the company's announcement of its
open-source Traffic Server during his keynote speech at the 4th International
Cloud Computing Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley.
His speech featured a tech-heavy description of how the... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 2, 2009 11:30 PM EST
Adaptivity CEO Tony Bishop took his audience through a tour of what the
self-described geek thinks is of critical importance when looking at
workloads and cloud computing, in general session at the 4th International
Cloud Computing Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Sil... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 2, 2009 11:00 PM EST
Open Cloud on Ulitzer
"Cloud computing is going to change everything, and you had better get your
act together."
With these words, Richard Marcello, President of Technology, Consulting and
Integration Solutions at Unisys, launched the opening keynote to a full
house at the 4t... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 2, 2009 10:30 PM EST
Open Cloud on Ulitzer
Yahoo! has made its second major Cloud Computing announcement in five months,
announcing an open-source version of its Traffic Server at the 4th
International Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, CA.
Company SVP of Cloud Computing Shelton Shugar, who will be... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 2, 2009 07:15 PM EST
Enterprises should not be intimidated by any aspect of cloud computing, but
rather, look to the potential of aligning IT with business through the cloud,
said Richard Marcello of Unisys. This observation was among a number of
"myths about the cloud" that he described during the ... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 2, 2009 03:00 PM EST
"Accelerating Innovation with Cloud Computing" will be the topic at hand when
Shelton Shugar, SVP of Cloud Computing at Yahoo!, delivers his keynote at the
4th International Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, CA. Shugar will
deliver his speech on Tuesday, November 3 at at the S... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 2, 2009 11:00 AM EST
A leading-edge conference such as the 4th International Cloud Computing Expo,
which begins Monday, November 2 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, is
expected to draw a lot of hot young companies and new technologies that are
bent on subverting the dominant paradigm and inventin... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 1, 2009 05:30 AM EST
I'll be reporting on Cloud Computing Expo.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
l... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
November 1, 2009 03:10 AM EST
Christmas lights have been up in the Philippines since early October.
Commercials for Pasko, as the holiday is called, have appeared on TV, and the
malls are full of people getting a head start on their shopping.
There's a particular form of lighted star (known as a parol) that's ... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
October 31, 2009 12:00 PM EDT
Cloud Expo on Ulitzer
SYS-CON Events announced today that the 5th International Cloud Computing
Conference & Expo will take place April 19-20-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits
Convention Center in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world'... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
October 30, 2009 05:00 AM EDT
As we near the end of a tumultuous 2009, I thought I'd get back in touch with
Rebecca Wanta (pictured) to get her thoughts about what CIOs and CTOs should
be doing right now.
Becky is the CEO & President of RSW1C Consulting. In that role, she's worked
with many Fortune 50+ comp... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
October 27, 2009 12:15 PM EDT
It's a lovely evening here in Pampanga. The dewpoint has been down the past
few days, as relatively dry air has been pouring in from the South China Sea
to the west of here. This air also drove the latest typhoon, Lupit (known
locally as Ramil) away from the Philippines before it... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
October 27, 2009 04:33 AM EDT
One of the joys of travel is the opportunity to make ceaseless fun of the
strange, foreign people you encounter and their strange habits. The
Philippines is no different from any other place in this respect. So, for
those of you who are considering a trip there, here are some hel... (more)
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By Roger Strukhoff
October 26, 2009 06:15 PM EDT
The volunteer members of the Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary continued to do
their work after the headlines faded in the wake of the dual typhoons that
the Philippines in September. A more recent storm approached the northern tip
of the country, dithered, then moved northeast to... (more)
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