Well, I think I am done talking about directories now, especially after reading Ian Yip’s hilarious recap of the debate, as it were. Having now appeared as a significant bit player in this drama, I have decided to leave it in the hands of more capable people like Clayton and am moving on to familiar
Ashraf Motiwala has called me out for saying that the way applications are supporting AD directly as the identity store is by using Virtual Directory, both in a comment on my post, and on his blog. I guess in my enthusiasm to get a response out to Matt’s post, I wasn’t careful enough about my
I doubt it. I doubt that there will be a last word on metadirectories for a long time to come. Technology that works has a way of sticking around, even when they have outlived their purpose, and are forced into the substrate of a new and improved “solution”. But I did want to respond to
Another Catalyst conference has come and gone, leaving us with a lot of material to chew on and ponder. Burton always forces us to think about what we are doing, especially those of us that have products to deliver. And it’s always interesting to see all the new companies that are popping up in the
We’ll see about the improved part. But the long awaited migration of the blogging platform (check out some details here) to Movable Type has finally gone live (phase 1, that is), and I am back to blogging again. Being knee-deep in Catalyst last week means that I missed the week-long period where we could check
I’ll be at the Catalyst conference next week, looking to share and learn. I expect Catalyst to be the usual source of inspiration, news and ideas. And I look forward to meeting up with fellow identirati like Ian, Mark and of course, the good folks from Burton. Unfortunately, a quirk of timing means that a
You may have heard the term Enterprise 2.0 thrown around a lot recently. The term (allegedly) refers to the idea of bringing all the concepts (and associated hype) seen in the booming social networking arena to bear on how Enterprises go about their business. As seen on Wikipedia: Enterprise social software, also known as Enterprise
Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference is coming up at the end of the month, which means that the work going on in the identity management world kicked up a few notches last month. One of the things that is becoming a fixture at Catalyst is a meeting of the folks involved in Project Concordia. Anyone who
There has been an interesting discussion going on regarding the fate of metadirectory technology. Dave Kearns talked about it in his newsletter recently (see: Is the metadirectory dead). In it, he quoted Jackson Shaw, who brought it up as context to HP’s recent retrenchment: “Let’s be honest. The meta-directory is dead. Approaches that look like
It’s always a good thing when your work get recognized. Forrester Research has just published a new Forrester Wave ™ Report focused on Identity and Access Management products. In this report, Oracle emerges as a clear market leader with a solid portfolio of integrated products and a “compelling, aggressive strategy” with application-centric identity. Forrester gives