It’s been a while since our last ‘cast, and for that we apologise. We blame too much paid consulting work, combined with holiday… This podcast episode attempts to pick up where we left off in our last episode, and talk more about our ongoing research programme looking at the evolution of the Web and how [...]
Posted on Friday, September 29, 2006 by admin
Earlier this week Sun announced the acquisition of Neogent, an Austin, Texas-based services company which specialises in the implementation of identity management and enterprise content management solutions. Neogent does not just provide implementation experts. The company exploits that expertise, together with the experience gleaned from deployments, to put together implementation packages in it’s Velocity Lab, [...]
Posted on Friday, September 29, 2006 by admin
I’ve mentioned on numerous occassions the significant amount of very important collaboration that is going on in the world of identity management (here’s just one example), exemplified most recently with the announcement of Microsoft’s open specifications promise, driven in no small part by Microsoft’s chief identity architect Kim Cameron. Whilst this collaboration is obviously essential [...]
Posted on Monday, September 18, 2006 by admin
Jon Oltsik from CNET was out at the Digital ID World conference and has posted a summary of this thoughts here: organisations are serious about deployment; projects are moving from tactical to strategic; SOA approaches apply to identity too; standards are starting to help; and identity is an infrastructure issue. In fact, a pretty good [...]
Posted on Monday, September 18, 2006 by admin
Bob Sutor has responded to the question (indirectly anyway – he was responding to the same question raised by David Berlind at ZDNet) I raised in my post about Microsoft’s open specification promise. It’s certainly succint: nice start, but there is such a long, long way for them to go after being such active opponents [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 by admin
It’s always dangerous to be too optimistic in this industry, but there appear to be signs of progress in IT service management, specifically with the adoption of best practice in IT operations. About a year ago, when vendors started jumping on the service management bandwagon, there didn’t appear to be much interest from potential adopters, [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 by admin
Happening as it did just as I was going on holiday this one nearly passed me by, but it still deserves a post – at the beginning of August Brocade announced its intentions to spend $713M on acquiring the only acquirable competition in the storage switch space (the other guy’s Cisco), namely McData. Interesting times [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 by admin
Yesterday, Microsoft announced an “irrevocable promise not to assert” for 35 web services-related specifications (as far as I can tell all of the WS-* specifications that the company has contributed to), ranging from SOAP, WSDL, WS-Security through to WS-Management, WS-Trust and the web SSO specifications developed with Sun. What this basically means is that Microsoft [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 by admin
At the Digital ID World conference taking place in California (Eric/Phil – how about extending the world of digital ID to Europe and hosting something here), Sun Microsystems announced Identity Manager 7.0, the next iteration of its identity lifecycle management (aka user provisioning) solution due for release next quarter. The key new feature of this [...]
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 by admin
BEA’s acquisition of Flashline a few weeks ago caused the other Neil to ponder: But when I look a bit deeper, I do wonder why BEA didn’t end up chomping Infravio instead. (They might well have tried and failed for some reason, of course – if anyone knows anything about that, let me know!) Today, [...]
Posted on Monday, September 11, 2006 by admin
