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The village cop - in the global village

Here's the introduction from a a "kablenet" report carried on theregister just over a week ago under the headline: "Whitehall to boost identity spend by £5.2bn":Public sector spending on identity management IdM is set to surge by £5.2bn in the next four years, according to a new Kable report.Spending...

Tags: Government, Paul Murphy, IdM, cop

Blog posts 2007-09-07

Should Microsoft be required to cooperate with open source?

Should Microsoft be required to cooperate with open source?IdM is not a business[i]OF COURSE M$ isn't going to want some opensource project take their buisness.[/i]Identity Management is not a business; it's infrastructure that facilitates business.The behaviors you are describing, are illegal for a monopoly.And, given that MS is dragging their...

Tags: Government, Intellectual property, Quality, IdM, Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2007-03-12

Demand for post-admission NAC grows

Demand for post-admission NAC growsNAC??One minus vote for unexplained acronym. Yeah, we're overloaded with 'em and need some relief. Thanks for helping.Once again...Application-level Identity Management [i]does not exists[/i].Again, unless you're referring to the application layer of the OSI network stack, which from this article it seems quite clear...

Tags: IdM, NAC, binary access, authorization

Discussion threads 2007-01-08

Additional Resources

Hardware 2.0 - Best software applications/tools/utilities

Why VMware workstation?Why VMware workstation and not VMware server?That was nice. Only, you do all this stuff in Linux for FREEntYes, whats the difference between the two? ntntI was thinking the same thing......just replacing them with other apps.For example, I use Notepad++ which is open source instead of UltraEdit, and...

Tags: Virtualization, desktop virtualization, AnyDVD, Foxit, applications/tools/utility, Hardware 2.0, Best Software, VMware Inc., MagicISO, Adobe Systems Inc., hardware

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

CRM 2.0: The Government, Public Service & A Transformed World

I KNOW that everyone who reads ZDNET columns loves technology. I get that.  I also KNOW that everyone who reads ZDNET blogs loves it when the bloggers dish on technology companies - especially, it seems, Microsoft.  I realize that coolness and government don't go together very well - probably something...

Tags: Institution, Singapore, Public Service, CRM, Stuff Legend, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-01-14

HP ProCurve Networking Offers Dynamic Network Security to Safeguard Lulea Municipality

Realising that very few sixth-form students in Lulea were choosing to take the natural sciences programme, Lulea Kommun carried out an analysis of its overall IT infrastructure, which highlighted the need to modernise the entire natural sciences programme and start to make better use of technology. One of the measures...

Tags: Security, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Network Security, HP ProCurve, Utility Computing

Case studies 2008-10-01

HP ProCurve Networking Makes the Grade at Prestigious Roman Medical University

Founded in 1993 and originally located in Longoni, east of Rome, the Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma initially comprised of a hospital - the Policlinico Universitario - and the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery. They needed a reliable, high-performance networking infrastructure that can readily handle both information systems. It also...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, HP ProCurve, Utility Computing, Networking

Case studies 2008-10-01

Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days

Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these daysOn the outside looking inIt's more like MS is on the outside looking in.Hyper-V is a proprietary lock-in solution. Xen, Citrix XenSource, SUN xVM, VMware all let IT run bare-metal Windows on Linux.It's a whole new ballgame."I am merely...

Tags: OpenOffice, OPEN SOURCE, Strategy, Hyper-V, information technology, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Csound Ghost_Writer 1.14.2 (Windows)

Ghost_Writer is a .NET application that acts as a GUI for Csound. Its application is both educational and practical. It implements different types of signal generators and multiple wave layering. Midi interface friendly. For Students: Anyone learning Csound can play with the tool features on this instrument and get a...

Tags: Instrument, Tool, Mezcel, Ghost_Writer, Productivity, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-04-09

Is MinWin really the new Windows 7 kernel?

In my post about Windows 7 back in January ("Windows 7 = Vista Release 2"), I ended with a statement that deserves some follow-up: Those who are predicting that Windows 7 will include some radically stripped-down kernel (the so-called MinWin project) or a new file system are missing the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Kernel, MinWin, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Telecommunications IT Team Reduces Search Time by 50 Per Cent With Enterprise Portal

Batelco is a leading telecommunications provider in Bahrain. The company employs 1,500 people and delivers mobile, broadband, fixed line and data services to more than 700,000 customers. Batelco has invested in a number of line-of-business applications, including IBM FileNet IDM. It wanted to consolidate all its applications into one portal...

Tags: Enterprise Portal, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Telecommunications IT Team, Batelco, Telephony, Content Management, Portals, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Processors, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2008-03-01

IPS - Implementing Cisco Intrusion Prevention System v6.0

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this Global Knowledge-enhanced course, you will gain the skills required to deploy Cisco's recently updated version 6.0 network-based Intrusion Prevention System IPS. New features added to version 6.0 include virtual sensor support, passive OS fingerprinting, and anomaly detection. The course introduces...

Tags: Intrusion Prevention System, Sensor, Cisco Systems Inc., Intrusion Prevention, Security

Training 2008-01-01

Epicor Software Case Study: Central Parking Corporation

Central Parking Corporation is the world's largest parking services provider. The Company owns, operates and manages parking and related services. Along with the company's growth and success over the years, Central Parking Corporation also has experienced the pains of that growth from an accounting perspective. As they began to investigate...

Tags: Epicor Software Corp., Financial System, Company, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies 2007-12-19

Social networking needs identity delegation strategies

Social networking needs identity delegation strategiesHave a solution...Okay, THE solution.Already solved it. We've implemented a system at a single client that solves this, and many other problems that IdM solutions just dont solve, or even attempt to solve. But should...Anyway, we're working now on generalizing the application for general marketability...

Tags: E-mail, Digital security, Authentication/Encryption, Network security, identity delegation strategy, delegation strategy, social networking, network

Discussion threads 2007-11-22

Integrating e-ID Into Next Generation eCitizen Services

This whitepaper examines both the high level issues around e-ID and the importance of an Service-Oriented Architecture SOA in addressing the challenges driving the delivery of services based on e-ID. Government transformation is on the crest of a wave. The first wave began more than 10 years ago, as central...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., SOA, e-ID, Government Transformation, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Government, Web Services, Vertical Industries, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-10-22

Gartner: Businesses struggling with ID management

Gartner: Businesses struggling with ID managementIDM and Access managemnetMost of the companies recognize the need to Idm and Access control. But there are several factors against successful implementation.1)viewd as an IT initative rather than a CXO initative.2) Half baked participation from HR.3) Hardly any involvement from Physical security departments.4) Overall...

Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Strategy, identity management, Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-11

Identity predictions for 2007

Identity predictions for 2007MS CardSpace?LOL - Yeah, it will be a big hit just like everyone said MS Passport would be !Identity predictions for 2007'What people commonly think of as "identity management"' is NOT "application identity management" !! What we have today is much closer to "network identity management" than...

Tags: application identity management

Discussion threads 2006-12-19

Who is an identity-based NAC vendor?

Who is an identity-based NAC vendor?I've been holding back, but....I can't any more, it simply must be said.Sorry to say this, but you guys have it bass-ackwards. These "revolutionary" companies are finally "treating the network layer in the same way that one would treat the application layer"??Identity has traditionally not...

Tags: NETWORKING, network, identity, application layer, network layer

Discussion threads 2006-11-14

A unified point of control

A unified point of controlData management?I don't think Sun looks at Java as a language for data management. I'm not sure anyone in their right mind looks at Java as a language suitable for data management.All that aside, it seems to be one of the more common applications of...

Tags: Programming languages, Storage, Databases, object-oriented, Java, data management, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-10-31

Feeling terribly inadequate

Feeling terribly inadequatehaving a nightmare Murphy?Didn't know you were that deep into Microsoft technology...;-)Mental illinessor is it mental ignorance? Most (non-programmers) IT people that have a few years of *NIX under their belt - tend to dislike 'doze in the extreme. Simple, powerful and elegant is what *NIX is, while...

Tags: Operating systems, Tools & Techniques, Spyware, adware & malware, Unix, software, operating system, environment

Discussion threads 2006-10-23