Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: August 27, 2009
An important milestone just got passed by Google – one of the big enterprise identity management vendors out there – Quest Software (full disclosure: I work for the company) – has added Google Apps as a directory to which they can provision identities and access. One might argue that this is a small thing considering [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: August 17, 2009
In the brave new world of enterprise applications going to the web do we need an identity directory spawning the internet, and if so, will email address system become the de-facto global identity system? Global directories are obviously not new. There were efforts like X.500 and like, but then we kind of got scaled back [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: August 4, 2009
Analysts should love hype – it lets them jump into a hot area and be the thought leaders who everyone has to consult to make any sense out of what is going on in the area. “Cloud” is probably the most hyped word in the industry these days and everyone has a definition of what [...]