http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/gaehtgens Kuppinger Cole + Partner Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:21:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've written a short analysis on Microsoft's new "Zermatt" framework that can went up on our website yesterday. For those who have missed the announcement, Zermatt is a new developer framework from Microsoft that makes it easy for developers to work with claims, and is also a foundation for building ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/gaehtgens/2008/07/18/mini-review-of-microsoft-zermatt/ As I write this, Red Hat is announcing the acquisition of Identyx, a software company that specialises in open source identity management software. Identyx's sells fully supported versions of Penrose, a virtual directory and Velo, an open provisioning solution. Both products are based on open source projects hosted at safehaus.org, ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/gaehtgens/2008/06/19/redhat-acquires-identyx/ I was at the BMC User World conference in Lisbon last Tuesday, trying to figure ot where BMC is going, specifically in the field of identity management. After all, BMC's presence in that segment has been surprisingly low-key since several months. Last year, BMC was to be found at every ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/gaehtgens/2008/05/25/bmc-drops-traditional-identity-management-focuses-on-business-service-automation/ Hewlett-Packard, who recently announced that it would all but retreat from the identity management sector as an independent vendor, has just announced a partnership with Novell. That will settle the many speculations in the industry. As HP had made a significant investment into identity management products, someone would surely be ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/gaehtgens/2008/05/16/hp-passes-the-buck-to-novell/ Ping Identity recently announced the availability of Version 5.1 of Ping Federate in their blog. What caught my attention was that Ping has now also finally added a feature I (and others) call "auto-provisioning" or "federated provisioning". In federated environments, when users from other entities visit your site and gain ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/gaehtgens/2008/05/08/federation-and-auto-provisioning/ As I already wrote in my last blog, one of my personal highlights at the European Identity Conference was the discussion that I had with Dale Olds, Jackson Shaw, Kim Cameron and Dave Kearns on the concept of the "Identity Bus" of the future. It's now online! So here you ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/gaehtgens/2008/05/06/identity-bus-round-table-video-online/ The European Identity Conference 2008 closed its doors last Friday, and for me it has been a fantastic event in all aspects. Obviously you should take my comments with a grain of salt as I am working for Kuppinger Cole and am therefore part of the organising team. However, I ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/gaehtgens/2008/05/01/survived-eic-2008/ An interesting conversation is taking place within the blogsphere about meta-directories, with Dave Kearns and Kim Cameron on both sides of the argument. This was all inspired by a blog entry on the 4th of March from Jackson Shaw called "You won't have to kick me around anymore!". That musing ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/gaehtgens/2008/03/26/meta-directories-id-say-quaint-but-not-quite-dead/ Yesterday, the news hit the wire that Ping Identity had acquired the Sxip Access product line. I've written an article on the topic here (you may need to register, but it's free). When I heard the news, I immediately wrote to Andre and Dick asking them for some more info. ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/gaehtgens/2008/03/12/ping-identity-acquires-sxip-access/ WEDNESDAY, March 5th. Chicago, seems a tad warmer, but still too cold for my taste! The last day of the conference was a short one for me - I had to leave around 11:30 to catch my plane. I had a nice long chat with Dieter Schuller from Radiant Logic, who ... http://blogs.kuppingercole.com/gaehtgens/2008/03/11/dec-2008-day-three/