Miko Matsumura Enterprise Software Executive Technologist

Why 2010 won’t be like “2010″.

It’s that time of year where pundits prognosticate about the upcoming year. I’ll bite–MMX (that’s Roman numeral for 2010) is shaping up to be a doozy of a year (although I prefer 7DA, which is 2010 in hex). Last night I decided to re-watch 2010 “The year we make contact”. It’s still an incredible movie and a fascinating way to examine people’s assumptions and predictions about the future. The book 2010 was published by Arthur C Clarke in January of 1982. Some of the striking...

The Legacy of Enterprise 2.0–Concluding thoughts from the Conference

The absolute highlight of last week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference was meeting in person and online many very bright people including Nenshad Bardoliwalla, Susan Scrupski, Michael Krigsman and many others. There’s certainly a strong discourse here about advancing the agenda for Enterprise computing. As with many advanced topics in Enterprise computing, it’s very easy to take a potshot: as we all know: * SOA is Dead (Anne Thomas Manes) * Enterprise 2.0 what a Crock (Dennis...

The Cloud Bubble

The Gartner Hype cycle research shows Cloud Computing as being on the peak of expectations… the very top of the hype bubble roller coaster. Vendors are looking for something to sell, and the consolidation of the data center, reducing operational cost and economy of scale are as convenient of an excuse as anything. There are some fundamental technologies as well that will make a big difference such as Virtualization. Is computing becoming a utility? When someone refers to cloud, the...

CISCO, LETS RIDE: Unified Computing

CISCO today announces their push into server computing…or rather into Unified Computing. I found CISCO’s CTO Padmasree Warrior (I love saying her name, it’s so Power Rangers) to be eloquent in her video. The CISCO vision of the “Human Network” is easily as big of a jump as Sun’s original “Network is the computer”. One of the phenomenon we have been seeing in SOA Land which as created a profound challenge as been what I refer to as...