Identity Management, Bowling, and London- What more could you ask for?

Last week Sun participated as a platinum sponsor in the Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit. Thomson Reuters drew quite a crowd when they discussed their successful use of Sun OpenSSO. But the fun didn't stop there as Sun and Accenture co-hosted an after-hours event in the Kingpin Suite at the infamous Bloomsbury Lanes. Who knew Sun product managers were such great bowlers? Must have been their new retro bowling shirts!

                
Sun's Booth                          Bowling in the KinPin Suite                         Thomson Reuters Presentation
    

Posted at 11:32AM Apr 01, 2009 by Stephanie Brannan in Events  |  Comments[0]

New customer podcast ready to play!

Listen as Unum's Lynda Fleury and Sun's Craig McDonald discuss the company's provisioning success with Identity Manager.

Posted at 11:02AM Mar 31, 2009 by Stephanie Brannan in Press Releases / News  |  Comments[0]

New Customer Success Story Available!

Education: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Sun identity management provides leading scientific institution with secure access to information and resources. 

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Posted at 11:50AM Mar 25, 2009 by Stephanie Brannan in Press Releases / News  |  Comments[0]

Join us for the very first OpenSSO Community Day!

Hosted by New York University and sponsored by Sun Microsystems, this is an opportunity for OpenSSO contributors, deployers and users to come together in an informal 'unconference' setting.

Being an unconference, the only rigid item on the agenda is to decide at 9am on the sessions for the rest of the day. You can show up and talk about any OpenSSO-related topic you like. Maybe you have an interesting deployment, a new extension or a nagging question - sessions can be discussions as much as presentations. Now, that doesn't mean that there need be zero preparation - if you have a session in mind, go to the wiki and add it there, so folks can get an idea of the likely content ahead of time. We've already posted a few ideas here.

All are welcome, attendance is free, and continental breakfast plus lunch will be provided. We'll likely adjourn to a nearby bar at the end of the day to continue the conversation :-)

We're using meetup.com to manage the registration process - just go to http://www.meetup.com/opensso/calendar/9588430/  , join the OpenSSO group and RSVP. And don't delay - 5 of the 40 places are already gone!

Posted at 04:33PM Jan 28, 2009 by Heidi Dailey in Events  |  Comments[0]

Analyst Video Series Part 3: Identity Bus with Kuppinger Cole analyst, Felix Gaehtgens

We finish our series with Kuppinger Cole's Felix Gaehtgens as he offers varying industry perspectives on the identity bus and Sun's Security Token Service.
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Posted at 12:50PM Jan 26, 2009 by Heidi Dailey in Events  |  Comments[0]

Analyst Video Series Part 2: Role Management with The 451 Group's Steve Coplan

The 451 Group analyst, Steve Coplan, talks with Sun's Sachin Nayyar about the Why, the What and the Where of role management.

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Posted at 12:47PM Jan 26, 2009 by Heidi Dailey in Events  |  Comments[0]

Sun Microsystems To Provide Access and Identity Management (IAM) Solutions to more than 400,000 Marines

Check out On the Record for more details.

Posted at 07:08PM Jan 05, 2009 by Heidi Dailey in Press Releases / News  |  Comments[2]

Customer Video with Argonne National Labs

Argonne National Labs' David Salbego talks about his experience and business benefits resulting from Sun solutions including access management and directory services.

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Posted at 06:52PM Jan 05, 2009 by Heidi Dailey in Press Releases / News  |  Comments[0]

Customer Video with Safeway

Safeway's Paul Rarey sat down with our very own John Barco recently to discuss the benefits they've seen from Sun identity management. Check it out!

Posted at 06:43PM Jan 05, 2009 by Heidi Dailey in Press Releases / News  |  Comments[0]

Role Management Webinar Replay Available

In case you missed it, check out automating the access certification challenge with Sun's solution for identity compliance.

Access the webinar now.

Posted at 06:36PM Jan 05, 2009 by Heidi Dailey in Events  |  Comments[2]

Gartner says we're leaders, again!

Sun has once again been placed in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Web Access Management.

More from the review...

Product: Sun OpenSSO Enterprise (formerly Sun Access Manager)

Sun is a leader in the WAM market, due to a combination of technical platform expertise, diverse and experienced partnerships in consulting and SI; a growing customer base; and consistent customer service. OpenSSO Enterprise is a full-featured product, with identity federation, SOA capabilities and built-in Web services security functions.

Strengths

• Due to technical platform expertise, diverse and experienced partnerships in consulting and SI, a growing customer base, and consistent customer service, Sun is a leader in the WAM market.
• OpenSSO Enterprise is a full-featured product, with built-in identity federation, SOA capabilities and Web services security functions.
• Sun plays a leadership role in open-source WAM through the OpenSSO project, which gives the company a potential customer base and the benefit of the efforts of the community that has developed around OpenSSO. When this option is included, Sun has the widest variety of pricing options for a WAM offering, and also has appealing standard pricing.
• Sun has focused on ancillary functionality to ease deployment, including federation partner offerings ("fedlets"), as well as standard, out-of-the-box task-based workflows.
• Sun's Partner Advantage Program remains a model for covering consulting, system integration, VAR and independent software vendor (ISV) needs for IAM customers.
• OpenSSO Enterprise now includes Microsoft SharePoint support and a fully functional security token service.
  

Caution

• Sun has a large customer base for OpenSSO Enterprise; however, growth in the customer base was relatively flat in 2007.

 Read the full report

Posted at 04:12PM Dec 04, 2008 by Sarah Richardson in Events  |  Comments[1]

Check Out the Updated Identity Management ROI Calculator

"See Your Savings! Use our handy ROI calculator to see how much Sun can slash costs associated with provisioning, auditing, role management, and compliance."

Posted at 02:19PM Nov 21, 2008 by Sarah Richardson in Events  |  Comments[0]

The Game was on at Sun's booth at the Gartner IAM Conference Nov. 10-12!

Sun attended the Gartner Identity and Access Management (IAM) conference November 10-12 in Orlando, Florida, where guests had the chance to flaunt their gaming skills and their identity management know-how by playing the Identity Hero game at the booth! The top three scores from the event went to Victor Gonzales, Michael Wilcox and Michael Sloan. Each of these winners walked away with a highly coveted Identity Hero prize pack from Sun!

Visitors of Sun's booth not only had the chance to virtually slay auditors while taming the Sarbox monster, but they also got the opportunity to chat with Sun's identity experts about their most challenging identity management issues, including identity compliance, user provisioning, role management, directory services, Web access management, and federation.
Two Sun customers spoke at the event. Verizon talked about their unique Web access management, and Thrivent Financial focused on their role management challenges and how Sun's identity management solutions met those needs.

Thank you to all that visited Sun at Gartner IAM!

Posted at 01:34PM Nov 17, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events  |  Comments[1]

Federated Single Sign-On for Google Apps in OpenSSO

Federating single sign-on with OpenSSO is fast, straightforward, and intuitive. This article describes the process for highly popular Google Apps.  Read more.

Posted at 05:21PM Nov 13, 2008 by Sarah Richardson in Events  |  Comments[3]

New Identity 8.0 Overview and Architecture Web-Based Course

The Sun Identity Manager 8.0 Product Overview and Architecture course provides an overview of Identity Management and the Sun Identity Manager 8.0 product. It presents the features available in the product, the product architecture, as well as the features that have become available in the latest release of the product.  Upon completion of this course, students will be able to describe the components within Sun Identity Manager and be familiar with the Identity Manager architecture.  Through detailed demonstrations, you will also understand how to use various features of the product including how to manage roles, view and configure in line attributes, use the Data Exporter function and configure service tags.  Learn more

Posted at 05:08PM Oct 30, 2008 by Sarah Richardson in Events  |  Comments[0]