Sun is the winning team at Catalyst

Pictured above is the winning Sun team getting into the game at Catalyst held June 23-25 in San Diego, California. 

Posted at 02:35PM Jun 30, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events  |  Comments[0]

Join Sun at the SSO Summit

Join Sun at the SSO Summit to gain invaluable information and insight on the SSO project!

Event: SSO Summit
Date: July 23-25th
Location: Keystone, Colorado

Here you will be able to meet with some of Sun's SSO experts and see demonstrations of our leading identity management solutions including:

• The Fedlet, the fastest and lightest-weight way to federate with service providers

• The OpenSSO Project, the only open source Web Access Management (WAM) and federation solution in the world

• A preview of Sun's Federated Access Manager, scheduled for release in September 2008
  

Sun is proud to be a sponsor of the 2008 SSO Summit, which provides in-depth exploration of the opportunities, challenges and successes of SSO as well as the chance to network with colleagues involved in SSO projects at their organizations.

 Register Now!

Posted at 01:30AM Jun 30, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events  |  Comments[1]

New Podcast: Introducing Identity Manager 8.0

To coincide with our release of Identity Manager 8.0 the product managers recorded a podcast discussing the new product and what's planned for the future.  Plus, you'll get a pulse on Role Manager and what's being planned.

Introducing Identity Manager 8.0 -- 6/23/08
Brandon, Squire Earle, Craig McDonald and Mat Hamlin discuss the features and benefits of the new Identity Manager 8.0. Plus you'll hear about roles and their evolution in identity management.
Listen Now (29:45)

Subscribe to the IDM Buzz podcast series

Posted at 01:17PM Jun 26, 2008 by Bianca Hernandez in Events  |  Comments[0]

Identity Manager 8.0 Has Been Released!

New! Sun Identity Manager adds support for business roles and a data exporter; provides key integration points to Sun Role Manager.

Visit the Sun.com/software site to get the datasheet, NetTalk, white paper, calculator and more.

Watch the Overview

Posted at 01:09PM Jun 26, 2008 by Bianca Hernandez in Events  |  Comments[0]

All Sun Sessions and our Hospitality Suite at Catalyst

Join us at the Sun Hospitality Suite

Event: Burton Catalyst Conference
Date: Thursday, June 26, 6:00-9:30pm
Location: Manchester Grand Hyatt

See demos of Sun's identity management, business integration, and virtualization software
Hit the concessions
Throw the old pigskin
Suit up for your cover shot
Get a behind-the-scenes look with Sun software experts and customers, including:

Thursday, June 26 at 4:10 p.m.
Role Management and Provisioning: Co-existence or Convergence?
Roundtable discussion
Featuring Nick Crown, Sun Director of Risk and Compliance

Friday, June 27 at 11:15 a.m.
Identity Services Roundtable: Customer Perspectives
Roundtable discussion
Featuring Sun customers Scotiabank and GM

Be our guest at the Sun Hospitality Suite. Consider it our skybox, where you can mingle with colleagues and key players from Sun. To get a complimentary pass, just register and use promo code "sunaaiui".
Register Now

Posted at 12:49PM Jun 26, 2008 by Bianca Hernandez in Events  |  Comments[0]

Data Management Market Dynamics Roundtable Discussion

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008, 4:45 PT
Data Management Market Dynamics: A Reality Check on XML, Open Source,
and Other Topics
Roundtable Discussion, Featuring Zack Urlocker,  VP Products, Database Group

Catalyst is being held this week, June 23rd- 27th in San Diego, CA. This event is a great networking opportunity for people to get together with other smart, innovative, forward thinking people to pursue mutual goals with their identity intact.

Posted at 01:33PM Jun 25, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events  |  Comments[0]

Oasis Introduces a New XML.org Online Community

OASIS today introduced a new XML.org online community web site dedicated to supporting the Sun backed Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). "SAML is recognized as the gold standard for federated identity," said Eve Maler, director of technology in Business Alliances at Sun.” Sun has taken an active role in SAML's spec development, product support, interoperability, and education since its earliest days, and we're delighted to see the launch of this new resource."

The site will serve as the official information resource for the SAML OASIS Standard, which provides an XML-based framework for online partners to exchange user authentication, entitlement, and attribute information.

More Info

Posted at 05:19PM Jun 18, 2008 by Criss McCauley in Events  |  Comments[0]

Business Management Magazine Feature

Check out the latest issue focused on IAM & User Provisioning.
Read Director of Identity Product Management, John Barco's response in the Executive Round table which includes Sun, CA, Novell and Aveksa. 

Posted at 11:19AM Jun 12, 2008 by Bianca Hernandez in Events  |  Comments[0]

Get Into the Game at Catalyst

Join us at the Sun Hospitality Suite

Event: Burton Catalyst Conference
Date: Thursday, June 26, 6:00-9:30pm
Location: Manchester Grand Hyatt

See demos of Sun's identity management, business integration, and virtualization software
Hit the concessions
Throw the old pigskin
Suit up for your cover shot
Get a behind-the-scenes look with Sun software experts and customers, including:

Wednesday, June 25
The Care and Feeding of Online Relationships (11:25 a.m.) and
Identity and Society Roundtable Discussion (12:05 p.m.)
Featuring Eve Maler, Sun Principal Engineer

Thursday, June 26 at 4:10 p.m.
Role Management and Provisioning: Co-existence or Convergence?
Roundtable discussion
Featuring Nick Crown, Sun Director of Risk and Compliance

Friday, June 27 at 11:15 a.m.
Identity Services Roundtable: Customer Perspectives
Roundtable discussion
Featuring Sun customers Scotiabank and GM

Be our guest at the Sun Hospitality Suite. Consider it our skybox, where you can mingle with colleagues and key players from Sun. To get a complimentary pass, just register and use promo code "sunaaiui".
Register Now

Posted at 04:45PM Jun 11, 2008 by Bianca Hernandez in Events  |  Comments[0]

Glassfish News

Check out the latest on GlassFish, including the new name change (to Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server), GlassFish v3 Technology Preiew and GlassFish Enterprise Server Unlimited.

Posted at 02:55PM Jun 11, 2008 by Bianca Hernandez in Events  |  Comments[0]

Access Manager and Federation Manager FAQs

Learn the nuances of access and federation management at Sun from these Q&As on developer-oriented topics:
* General
* Administration Console
* Authentication
* Single Sign-On (SSO) and Sessions
* Liberty Alliance and SAML (1) and (2)
* Identity Management
* Service Management SDK

*Performance and Sizing, Policy, Session Failover and Deployment, and Agents

Posted at 02:00PM Jun 10, 2008 by Bianca Hernandez in Events  |  Comments[0]

Virtual Federation Article

From our friend Marina Sum check out
From the Trenches at Sun Identity, Part 4, Virtual Federation,
a Pioneering Way for Exchanging Authentication Data

Sun identity architect Rajeev Angal describes the challenges enterprises face with federation and explains how virtual federation, a unique capability in the upcoming Sun Federated Access Manager, effectively resolves all the issues.

Posted at 03:05PM Jun 09, 2008 by Bianca Hernandez in Events  |  Comments[0]

New Podcast!

We have a new podcast posted.

Partner: IC Synergy and R.A.R.E. -- 6/2/08 

Sun's Ryan Bearden and IC Synergy's Martin Gee discuss the
evolution of the security and identity market, why R.A.R.E was
created and the R.A.R.E and non-R.A.R.E way to do implementations.

Posted at 05:57PM Jun 03, 2008 by Bianca Hernandez in Events  |  Comments[0]