Thursday Apr 30, 2009

Join us next week in Munich at the EIC Conference!

Join Sun May 5-8 in Munich for this year's Kuppinger Cole European Identity Conference. See what's new in IT through speaker sessions, presentations, panels, thought leadership discussions, and analyst reviews. Topics include: Identity Management, Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Don't forget to come by Sun's booth to enter our secret contest and hear what our very own experts have to say about identity management.

Sun Speaker Lineup

Tuesday, May 5

Wednesday, May 6

Thursday, May 7

Friday, May 8

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Tuesday Apr 28, 2009

Featured Training Offer: Enroll in Sun Identity Manager 8.0 Course & Get a Free Sony PSP

The Sun Identity Manager 8.0 Installation and Administration Essentials workshop will take you through the new features provided in Sun Identity Manager 8.0, how to install, update, and patch Identity Manager. Additionally, students will be able to add and manage resources, seed Identity Manager accounts, and utilize NetBeans within the staging and deployed environment to access Identity Manager objects. 

Course must be ordered by June 19 and completed by July 31. 

Submit priority code WW49PSP with your order to get a free Sony PSP 3000.

See local website for additional terms and conditions.  Available only in select countries.  


Thursday Apr 23, 2009

Consumerization Versus ITization with Eve Maler

Sun's Eve Maler, Emerging Technologies Director for Identity Software, discusses new and promising technologies related to digital identity management at this weeks RSA Conference in San Francisco. The interview highlights Maler's views on OAuth as a web friendly solution to the consumerization of IT.

View the full interview

Check out Eve's blog

Wednesday Apr 22, 2009

New: OpenSSO Express

Today Sun released OpenSSO Express for Google Apps Premier Edition customers. The OpenSSO solution delivers rapid federation single sign-on enabling employees to use their enterprise logins to access Google Apps for increased security, accelerated user adoption, and improved administrative benefits.

Read the full press release

Open-Source Identity Management Starter Kits

In conjunction with the OpenSSO Express launch, Sun also released Open-Source Identity Management Starter Kits, complete with technical articles and video demos. The kits are designed to help you solve specific business challenges, like Federated Single Sign-On to Google Apps and using OpenDS as a naming service for OpenSolaris,  through open-source development.

Check out the starter kits

Thursday Apr 16, 2009

Check out Identity's New Face Lift!

We hope you enjoy browsing our newly designed web pages and find them much easier to navigate. We would love to hear your feedback. Feel free to drop us a line.

Don't have time to browse? Here's a little peak!



Wednesday Apr 15, 2009

Join Sun at the RSA Conference!

Join the Sun Identity Management team at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, April 20-24 for the 2009 RSA Conference. It's a great way to discover what's hot in security, see first hand identity management product demonstrations, and showcase your Wii bowling skills.

Hot Topics

A Pragmatic Approach to Building Identity Management for the Enterprise- Sun's Daniel Raskin and Pat Patterson explain how developers can use Sun's open source identity stack to invoke ROA / RESTful identity services that simplify the integration of Sun's identity management (IdM) features and capabilities with developer applications and services. More

Fostering Collaboration and Opportunities in Identity Management- Concordia Project workshop with Sun panelist Eve Maler. More

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Tuesday Apr 14, 2009

It's not too late! Register NOW for tomorrow's FREE webinar.

Topic: Humanize Access with Role Management Webinar

Details:
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Time: 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 PM EDT
Speaker: Nick Crown, Product Line Manager for Sun's Identity Administration and Compliance products

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Wednesday Apr 08, 2009

Identity Webinar Series- 3rd Wednesday of Every Month


This Month's Topic:  Humanize Access with Role Management

Join us next week for our free monthly webinar. Learn how Sun's role management solutions can simplify and humanize your current approach to the everyday problems of defining, assigning, attesting, and auditing access.

Event Details
Topic: Humanize Access with Role Management Webinar
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Time: 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT
Speaker: Nick Crown, Product Line Manager for Sun's Identity Administration and Compliance products

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View Past Webinars

Everyday Provisioning- Watch now

Attacking Complexity with Simplicity- Watch now

Access Management, Federation, and Secure Web Services- Watch now

Thursday Apr 02, 2009

Forrester Ranks Sun a Tier 1 Enterprise Role Management Vendor

“Sun Microsystems is estimated to have the largest pure role management market share.”
Based on the following metrics:

  • Estimated total market share in 2008
  • Vendors most frequently seen in competitive situations
  • Number of customers in production
  • Largest number of users whose entitlements are managed

Source: Forrester, Market Overview, Enterprise Role Management, Andras Cser, 6 Feb 2009.

Read the full report



Wednesday Apr 01, 2009

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