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Federation enters a new phase

Two recent releases in the federated identity marketplace caught my eye -- and may speak to the development of federation deployments:1. Ping Identity announced that the U.S. Department of Justice selected them to provide federation to over 7,300 local law enforcement agencies and 700,000 law enforcement officials. (Disclosure: I was...

Tags: Web services, federation, identity federation, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-11-16

Newsflash: RSA to be sold to EMC or Sun?

The New York Times is reporting that EMC is close to buying RSA Security for around $1.8billion dollars. Rumors on the street also suggest that Sun could be a bidder. Developing...

Tags: Storage, RSA Security Inc., EMC Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-06-29

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...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, identity management

Blog posts 2006-05-01

Putting vendors on the map

Tuesday, I laid out our vision of the digital identity industry map. To expand on that, I'm going to place some vendors on that map -- in effect, mapping their companies (or in the case of big technology companies, their products) to the different categories. The identity universe is composed...

Tags: Eric Norlin, IBM Corp., identity, identity industry, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., RSA Security Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-04-06