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- Identity predictions for 2007
- Having graded our identity predictions from last year, its time to venture forth into the uncharted waters of 2007. The following are our divinations on what is to come:1. Identity-related acquisitions will slow to a steady pace.The acquisition market for identity companies has been very heated for the past two...
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Understanding "identity management"
- Paul Murphy has been writing about identity management over on his Managing Linux blog. His basic thesis is that while most CIOs now are putting "identity management" as a top priority, most also can't tell you what "identity management" is. The reason, says Paul, is that most CIOs are informed...
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- Novell's acquisition strategy
- Back on June 2nd, I told Novell to focus on their growing identity management business. Shortly thereafter, Novell's long-time CEO, Jack Messman, was replaced by Ron Hovsepian. Suddenly, it appears that Novell's new chief may be listening.In an interview that most of the world missed, Hovsepian stated that "management services"...
- Blog posts 2006-06-27
- Is Cisco an identity company?
- In response to my posting this morning about Symantec coming around to identity management ("Security is like Love"), a commenter asks, "What about Cisco?" The simple answer is "yes," Cisco is also coming around to identity.Network Access Control (or as Cisco calls it, "Network Admission Control") is one of the...
- Blog posts 2006-05-09
- Security is like love
- Symantec threw its hat in the identity ring yesterday, when CEO John Thompson told the audience at their annual Vision conference that identity management was a "critical part of the stack" and an "area of great interest to the company." All of this follows Thompson's earlier comments about Symantec not...
- Blog posts 2006-05-09
- Will Sun begin buying?
- When Jonathan Schwartz took over the post as head-honcho of Sun, I kept my opinions quiet. My suspicion was that Schwartz might help to focus more of Sun's resources on its identity management business, but it was just that - a suspicion. Today, I find this article confirming my...
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- A big ole pile of steamin' hot links
- Okay, so its actually only two links I just liked that title, but they're two very illustrative links: 1. Buried in this press release about small businesses and banking is this statement: "Over 70% of the respondents were looking for an identity management platform to safeguard their business' identity...
- Blog posts 2006-04-26
- Identity management as a service
- Last week, fellow ZDNet blogger Phil Wainewright mused about who Salesforce.com might buy next. In the course of doing so, he raised the possibility of federated identity as a possible target, but rather kindly deferred to us. All of that got me thinking of a conversation I had at last...
- Blog posts 2006-04-19
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- Microsoft shares SaaS architecture insights
- As I mentioned yesterday, there are some smart people at Microsoft who really understand what SaaS and on-demand is all about, which is just as well considering how much buzz surrounds the whole concept of service-oriented computing, from SaaS to SOA to Web 2.0. Some of the most actionable insights...
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Identity 1.x: Microsoft Live ID and Google Accounts
- Many digital identity and Web 2.0 watchers have been tracking Microsoft and Google's recent efforts to achieve leadership in the potentially high-stakes world of Web-based identity. The goal: To provide a single, common user credential that is trusted, secure, and widely supported across the Web and within enterprises....
- Blog posts 2006-07-06
- Identity on the mind
- Last week the Burton Group Catalyst conference focused on an identity management, from enterprise single sign-on to user-centric identity. This week the "identorati" are gathered together for the Identity Mashup Conference hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Mark Dixon has a good summary...
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
- A unifying theme for Microsoft?
- David Berlind referenced this open letter by Eric Norlin in a recent Between the Lines blog post. In it, Mr. Norlin argues that Microsoft needs to present its customers a unifying theme that will fit its disparate products into a cohesive whole. The need for such a theme is obvious....
- Blog posts 2005-08-11
- Ping Identity's pay-as-you-succeed federation server
- Start-up Ping Identity has come up with an innovative model for selling its PingFederate 2.0 identity federation server. Instead of pricing by the number of servers, applications, users or connections, the company is using identity transactions as the metric. The deal is this: PingFederate can be installed on an infinite number of...
- Blog posts 2005-02-10
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