 Identity ManagementThis newsletter is sponsored by AltirisNetwork World's Identity Management Newsletter, 07/04/07Vendors announce identity management partnerships, wares at CatalystBy Dave KearnsLast year I lamented that there were few announcements of products, technology or anything else coming out of the Catalyst conference. Well, the vendors seem to have taken those words to heart because this year there were not only major announcements from lots of people, but multiple major announcements from some. Oracle, for example, announced a new package of Managed Identity Services in cooperation with Wipro Technologies, one of the largest support service providers worldwide, providing comprehensive IT solutions and services, including systems integration, outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance services to large and small corporations. Couple this with Fischer’s announcement in May and you might see a trend towards identity management as a service developing. Oracle also announced new partnerships with vendors including Arcot, Cyber-Ark, ForeScout, Imageware, Juniper, Pay By Touch, Quantum Secure and TriCipher, as part of its Extended Identity Management Ecosystem and Reference Architecture initiative – a tighter structure than simply a technology partnership.
NetPro announced new versions of two top products for Active Directory: NetPro ChangeAuditor 4.0 which now enables admins to track, alert, and identify changes with more than 160 new alerts for Member Servers, DNS, Registry, File Systems, and Exchange; and SecurityManager 4.0 which now provides six new built-in security policies for real-time compliance monitoring, auditing and security coverage with Active Directory configuration protection and more. OSIS, the Open Source Identity System, demonstrated interoperability between OpenID and CardSpace with the participation of BMC, Eclipse Higgins Project, IBM, Microsoft, NetMesh, Novell, Nulli Secundus, OpenInfoCard, Oracle, Pamela Project, Ping Identity, Red Hat, SocialPhysics, Sun, VeriSign, and XMLDAP. Ping Identity also announced the launch of signon.com, a site which acts as an OpenID provider while also allowing the user to authenticate with a CardSpace card, either a managed card or a self-issued one. Novell’s Bandit Project caused long-time NetWare/eDirectory fans to almost swoon when they announced DigitalME as an open source CardSpace equivalent technology. But this wasn’t the old DigitalME, only a recycling of the name. Still it is important in the iCard technology arena. Ping Identity also announced a strategic relationship with Radiant Logic to integrate directory virtualization services with identity federation by linking PingFederate to the RadiantOne Virtual Directory Server. Maybe that can move federation along more quickly. One final note, I often complain about vendor hospitality suites - small rooms into which vendors pack in a loud band and then attempt to shout a demo of a product at people who really can’t hear. This year Bridgestream tried something different – soft background music. Not surprisingly (to me) two thirds of the people in the room were clustered around the demo station taking it all in. I do hope other vendors take note!
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Yes, agree here completely. The first half came to be very hot for and IT staff. With Microsoft issued Vista to the consumer marker IT companies from all over the world started to release their programs for this new operating system that should cover new tendency showed in Vista. For me personally the year started with the appearance of the first product able to work remotely with the new Vista security attention sequence from the Scriptlogic that provided the ability to call logon screen from the remote computer in its Desktop Authority management tool. Then VMWare opened its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure programme. That also was a big leap because it changed the view had before this and the view we got after. Think of it, virtualization becomes more and more involved into technology with each new day because it provides for flexibility and a new level of enterprise security. The last serious moment for me is connected with Citrix who issues the new version of its Presentation Server 4.5 and completely redrawn the presentation on the mid-to-top market. TechEd gave rise to a lot of talk and rumors about the Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server and all the stuff that is developed in the close area. The last half of the year promises to be even more interesting, as Microsoft will release a set of its new server line products such as Windows Server 2008 (previously known as Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn"), SQL Server 2008, previously known as Code Name "Katmai" and as Windows Future Storage, WinFS. SQL server would become a key point in the nearest future. we can see, companies that work on the top-notch technology already realized the positive use of basing data management in their products on SQL server. The same already mentioned Scriptlogic as far as I know had built all their product storages on SQL others work in the same direction although it seems not all companies are currently able to manage with it and move their storage on SQL databases.
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