NCSS Demo at Cloud Connect
Both of my regular readers have pointed out to me that my abysmally low blog posting frequency has recently sagged. That has been somewhat due to the state of my current project, Novell Cloud Security Services (NCSS). NCSS was released last August, and since then we have been working with current and prospective customers to...
My Daughter Appears in an Arrington Post on TechCrunch
I have referred to my children numerous times in this blog. For some reason, their adventures are often rather technology focused – but this post is not about technology. It’s about the sheer techie coolness of my daughter being seen in a post on TechCrunch. My oldest son recently started working for a new company...
Issues with Multi-tenant Cloud Services and Corporate Identity Providers
Updated 21 Jan 2011 to fix two broken links. Recently I have been trying, yet again, to understand social networking and its tools. I figure that, if people like Ben Goodman and Paul Madsen find that stuff useful, there must be some value there that I just haven’t found yet. In my current efforts, I...
Further into Identity as a Platform Play
A few weeks ago I had a great conversation with Matt Grant over at the Trusted Cloud Initiative. It was a lively conversation and Matt did a great job of turning it into a blog post. I’m not sure if I ever stated the main point of our conversation as succinctly as Matt captured it...
Identity and Security on the Cloud Train
I’ve had many conversations with Dave Kearns over the years in hallways, a few beer halls, and conference panel discussions at events like the Internet Identity Workshop and the European Identity Conference. The conversations have been lively and often pushed my thinking in new directions. We’ve followed a similar path from the directory services of...
Security, Identity, and Business Drivers at EIC 2010
Earlier this month I attended the European Identity Conference in Munich. The conference is put together by Kuppinger Cole + Partner and they do a great job. As I’ve posted before each year it gets better, and this year was no exception. This year there were great sessions with cutting edge content, really good food...
Cloud Computing Precipitates Identity-based Security
Not for the first time, I have found a post by Gunnar Peterson to be very useful and insightful. This time, I followed his lead to a post by Chris Hoff. It’s a piece called “Cloud Providers and Security ‘Edge’ Services – Where’s The Beef?“. I highly recommend the whole of both posts. Mr Hoff’s...
EIC 2009, and a New Focus on Identity in the Cloud
From May 5th to May 8th I attended the 3rd European Identity Conference (EIC). As a testimonial on the front page says, it was “a wonderful and informative event, well run and useful in so many ways.” (If I quote a page quoting me, is that recursion or delegation?) I attended the first two EICs...
Now that’s funny
I know people have widely varying humor styles and many may not agree with me, but, man, I find this XKCD comic to be very funny. I just keep chuckling to myself. Oh, and don’t miss the text that pops up if you mouse over the panels — if you read XKCD in a feed...
First Identity Selector in a Linux Distribution: DigitalMe in OpenSUSE 11.1
As my last post shows, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the evolution of identity services over time. I’m currently researching and thinking about how identity services should integrate with the emerging cloud computing paradigm. However, sometimes we get working in the daily grind, the months and years go by, and we can miss...
Identity Services: Being vs Doing
Eric and Dave have recently written about their views of the waves of identity. Dave’s post gave me a wave of nostalgia since it mentioned both the NetWare Bindery and Novell Directory Services. Sometimes it feels like I’ve been around as long as Dave.
Mr Peabody, set the Wayback Machine for somewhere near 1990…
My first server-side...
Information Card breakthrough with Novell Access Manager 3.1
There have been a number of articles in the press over past few weeks about the release of Novell’s Access Manager 3.1. The articles by John Fontana at NetworkWorld and by Sean Michael Kerner at InternetNews.com are well worth reading. Both articles mention new features in the product, it’s interoperability with Microsoft products via open...
