Recent Article

I did not think I'd have anything else to say before the end of the year. However, this was not to be the case... Some months ago I was interviewed, along with several others for an article that has appeared in Information Security Magazine. The article, by Robert Westervelt, talks about Identity Management challenges an economy full of Layoffs and Mergers. It's a very nice high level treatment of some of the strategic reasons to have Identity Management Solutions in place.

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Happy Holidays

It's been  the end of a great year of working with Identity Management this year.  Sun, Oracle, Novell, IBM and of course, SAP are all in the mix and doing well.  Companies are recognizing that not only is IdM useful, but a strategic business goal as well.

Personally, I've gone from Project Management, to Independent work, to working with a fine organization, SECUDE Global Consulting.  I've had a great year with them, and am looking forward to more challenging work in the coming year.

I'd like to wish everyone a happy, safe and sweet holiday and New Year.  Even if you don't celebrate a particular holiday, take a moment and reflect (which you should do often anyway)  

On a lighter note, I saw this humorous post at CSOOnline.  Hope it brings a chuckle!

Why do We Bother With Server Virtualization, Anyway?

This is something that has frankly astounded me over the years...  For years vendors such as VMWare and Microsoft have been telling us about the flexibility, power and savings inherent in consolidating Servers into Virtual Machines.

For some reason, the rest of the software industry has not caught on to this and think that this is not a scalable architecture.  I'm amazed.  I don't think any of these software firms have ever looked at a manual or talked to the vendors or their customers running virtual data centers.

There's no reason production implementations cannot run on a VM.  Modern VMs are just as configurable and scalable as physical servers.  Even more so in fact, since the files can be moved from one host server to another where more resources can be allocated.  

Wake up, application vendors!  VMWare is just as good as an IBM P server in terms of configuring hosted configurations.  This is the 21st century, let's start thinking a little more "out of the (server) box"