| The promise of provisioning Way back in the dark ages, 10 whole years ago, I first wrote about provisioning as the "killer app" for Identity Management. Actually, I called it the killer app for directory services, since the identity management tag hadn't yet been promulgated. In a piece I wrote for Novell's Web site (now, sadly, no longer available), I touted Business Layer's eProvision Employee application and talked about what was to come. Sometimes prognosticators are wrong. E-provisioning's dirty little secret It was just four years ago, that I was strolling through "Start-up City" at NetWorld+Interop Atlanta in 1999 and stumbled across a new company, Business Layers, touting a brand new application called "eProvision Employee." I was intrigued, and I had a few minutes to kill. I fell in love. Here was the application that could finally bring directory services and identity management into the mainstream. Provisioning/de-provisioning in the education sector I'm at the Catalyst Conference in San Diego this week - say "Hi!" if you see me wondering the halls - but the news from the show will have to wait until next week's newsletters. Today I want to finish something I touched on recently - provisioning/de-provisioning in the education sector. School system taps Novell to control network identity The Fairfax County School District in Virginia, with more than 200 schools and 164,000 students, this week announced it will begin upgrading its legacy network provisioning and password management system with Novell's ... Provisioning/deprovisioning problematic for a third of organizations Every time we think we've finally gotten a handle on the user provisioning/deprovisioning issue something comes along to disabuse us of that notion. In this case it's the results of a survey of attendees at last spring's Directory Experts Conference (DEC) put on by NetPro. Provisioning for non-employees in healthcare organizations Speaking of identity and healthcare, as we were in the last issue, I sat in on a panel discussion last week on provisioning non-employees in a healthcare environment. This was just one of the many fascinating sessions at this year’s (the fifth annual) Converge conference, the user conference put on by Courion and its partners Citrix, Cyber-Ark, Encentuate, RSA, Diaphonics, HealthCast, Imprivata and Radiant Logic – fairly familiar names to readers of this newsletter. Courion and Sun ease deployment of provisioning systems We've come a very long way in the identity provisioning field over the past eight years, a journey highlighted by two recent announcements. I'll get to those in a second. Fischer's take on provisioning systems When I told you about Gartner's Magic Quadrant report on provisioning systems a couple of weeks ago, there were a few companies listed that haven't been discussed in this newsletter in the past. I hope to change that over the next few weeks by drawing attention to them. Today, we'll look at Fischer International. Survey: IT pros admit to peeking inside confidential data files As long as it's just the two of us talking, you can tell me - don't you sometimes go snooping inside the storage servers? Not to be nosy, of course. But, perhaps, to see just what those disk hogs (you know, the ones who ... The messiest part of identity management The messiest part of any job is usually the cleanup. Think about what your kitchen looks like after a festive holiday meal. Or Main Street after the horse brigade marches in the annual parade. But in the field of ... Fischer targets identity services at service providers At the end of the last century, I touted a new technology niche: e-provisionware. That name didn't stick, but the concept of electronic provisioning did, creating the revolution in enterprise identity management that ... February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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