NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
06/20/05
Today's focus: Identity management on show
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* Why you should attend identity management conferences
* Links related to Identity Management
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Today's focus: Identity management on show
By Dave Kearns
I was in Boston last week for Courion's third annual Converge
conference. This is best described as an annual user group
meeting with lots of others in attendance. Customers and
potential customers, partners and potential partners and a
smattering of press and analysts, including Burton Group's Mike
Neuenschwander, Gartner's Earl Perkins, and Digital ID World's
Phil Becker, all got together to hold conversations on
provisioning, compliance, passwords/authentication and other
identity management topics.
It's something more companies ought to publicize, and invite
potential customers and partners to. Adding in press/analysts
who understand the identity management area is a plus that works
both ways. The customers like to be able to talk to and question
the "experts" while those of us who sometimes seem to
pontificate can get a reality check on what implementing
identity management in the real world is all about.
Sometimes I get a good story out of these sessions, like the
tale from last year's Converge event about self-service password
reset (
<http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2004/0607id1.html>
). Sometimes there's no immediate story, just good background
information and a touch of reality. The Courion conference is
relatively small (perhaps 150 people in all) but that brings an
intimacy that huge shows (Interop, for example) simply don't
have.
NetPro's Directory Experts Conference, the Burton Group's
Catalyst event, Gartner's IT Summits, Novell's BrainShare,
Microsoft's TechEd, the RSA Conference - all are, or were
started as, user/client events that have grown over the years.
All seem to offer more in terms of intellectual content than the
many "trade shows" (e.g., Comdex) that have come and gone over
the years. I try to attend these types of user community events
as often as I can. It isn't always possible (two years in a row
I've had to cancel a visit to Thor Technology's user event - but
I'll try to make it again next year).
The Courion show is typical in its speaker lineup - company
leaders (President and CEO Chris Zannetos, CTO Brian Milas),
industry gurus (Gartner's Perkins, Digital ID's Becker),
technology partners (Deloitte & Touche) and customers both large
and small. It's a good mix and gives a good picture of the state
of identity management at a given point in time.
Lots of vendors in many different areas - not just identity
management - have annual meetings like this. They're very useful
to customers but might even be more useful to potential
customers - it's an opportunity to talk to those who have
already implemented the products and are very willing to share
with you both the serendipitous occurrences as well as the
potholes they've come across.
Small can often be better, at least in terms of content density.
Come back next week (not next issue) and I'll let you know what
I discovered here at Converge.
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To contact: Dave Kearns
Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.
Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these
respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.
Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books,
manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing,
technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill
provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at
<mailto:info@vquill.com>
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cables present in buildings required to service the
ever-increasing demands of IT networks. More workstations are
taxing the infrastructure. These concerns are the thrust behind
new "limited combustible" cables that reduce fire safety risk.
Click here for news, a free demo CD and more. Visit DuPont's
Cabling center today!
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=107002
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