Roger Strukhoff

I followed a meetup last night in Austin presented by Michael Cote of 451 Research and CloudCamp co-founder Dave Nielsen. John provided a review of the past five years of cloud computing and Dave talked about some current strategies in using PaaS. The overall program provided a nice and thorough review of where we've been and where we are. The global nature of the cloud reaches to most nations. In the modern era, enterprise IT evolves at a similar pace worldwide, rather than in North America and Western Europe first, as in days past. Depending on what particular aspect you're examining, it even moves more quickly in some developing nations - "eMoney" services on mobile phones in places such as Kenya and the Philippines are an example of this phenomenon. Similarly, in the research we've been conducting at the Tau Institute since 2011 on the relative dynamics of IT de... (more)

Vietnam Shines in Our IT Research, Part 2

Yesterday I wrote about how we view Vietnam in a different way than many others do. Vietnam is one of the stars in our rankings, in Asia and globally. Our relative ranking process, which looks at how well a country is developing given its current economic resources, vaults Vietnam above most of its regional peers and above all countries in its income tier. I first got wind of the winds of change in Vietnam when I interviewed Dr. Tran Viet Huan at the time IBM opened its Cloud Labs Ha Noi. Dr. Huan is CTO of IBM Vietnam and IBM Cloud Labs ASEAN. This was among the first cloudy act... (more)

Containers: Don't Skeu Them Up, Man | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

Gordon Haff wrote an insightful column today about "skeuomorphic virtualizaton," in other words the notion of thinking of virtual servers as having the same look and feel of the physical machines lying underneath. The upshot is that virtualization ends up just being a form of partioning; users view virtualized instances as no different from a single physical server. Gordon urges the end of skeuomorphism's reign of terror (my words, not his) now that containers are (back) in the news. So don't simply stuff "a hodepodge," as Gordon says, of operating systems versions along with you... (more)

Vietnam Shines In Our IT Research

There's something extraordinary going on in Vietnam, and I'm not sure everyone sees it. The country blazes from the dry pages of our research printouts, its incandescence obscuring its neighbors and making our office fire alarms nervous. Among the 105 nations we now survey, Vietnam will finish in or near the Top 20 in the world in our overall ranking, when we announce our latest results next month. It will be near the top in Asia. Our overall ranking integrates several socioeconomic and technological factors, Additionally, Vietnam will rank near the top of the world in our pure ... (more)

Do You Need PaaS for Cloud Microservices? By @IoT2040 | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

Cloud computing adds flexibility to enterprise IT. When companies wish to take advantage of this, they are finding they need to turn to microservices instead of their traditional, monolithic architectures to accommodate frequent change. Microservices can overcome the challenges presented by frequent change, "by splitting monoliths into multiple independent services, each with its own simple business logic," according to Sergey Sverchkov, a Solutions Architect with Altoros. Doing so leads to another issue: "choosing either PaaS or IaaS for microservices is an open question, " he ... (more)