Roger Strukhoff

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

"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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)