Another European Identity (and Cloud) Conference has come and gone, and once again it was an exciting week with packed session rooms, and excellent attendance at the evening events. I’m not sure we can continue to call it the “European” Id Conference, though, as I met folks from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and [...] READ MORE
Martin Kuppinger
Another dead body in IT? Or is XACML still alive?
13.05.2013 12:48
Since my colleague Craig Burton has declared that SAML is dead, it seems to be in vogue among analysts to take the role of the public medical officer and to diagnose the death of standards or even IAM (Identity and Access Management) in general. Admittedly, the latter case was not about diagnosing the death but [...] READ MORE
Craig Burton
More Consolidation for the API Economy
24.04.2013 21:00
CA Technologies acquires Layer 7, MuleSoft acquires Programmable Web, 3Scale gets funding It is clear that the API Economy is kicking into gear in a big way. Last week, Intel announced its acquisition of Mashery, this week, CA Technologies announced its acquisition of Layer7 , MuleSoft announced its acquisition of ProgrammableWeb and 3Scale closed a [...] READ MORE
Joerg Resch
More Unsmart Infrastructures
23.04.2013 13:38
In my last post I mentionned the motor driven door locks I have at my home. A frequent question I get from friends visiting me is, wether that doorlock system, which works with pincodes, RFID, remote conrols and over the Internet, is connected to the KNX/EIB bus system I also have in my house to [...] READ MORE
Mike Small
Cloud: hope for the best but plan for the worst
15.02.2013 14:50
The past couple of weeks must have been an anxious time for the customers of the outsourcing service run by 2e2 which went into administration on January 29th. This impacted on a range of organizations including hospitals. The good news today is that the Daisy Group plc. has been appointed to manage the 2e2 Data [...] READ MORE
Sachar Paulus
News from the Analyst Summit in London
06.06.2011 14:50
Every Summer, Eskenzi PR organizes the IT security analyst and CISO forum. It basically consists of one-on-one meetings between vendors and analysts and round table discussions between vendors, analysts and end-users, typically CISOs. And the event this year was excellent! The quality and density of information is quite high, and it allows to grasp trends, [...] READ MORE