Yesterday concluded the MySQL Conference for me. It conincided with take your Daughter to Work day in the United States so I took my daughter to see a presentation about OpenLDAP and MySQL Cluster. Howard Chu did a great job providing a technical overview of his use of LDAP to MySQL Cluster (content I wanted to hear) and playing the violin during his presentation (providing content my daughter enjoyed).
Yesterday, Ludo did a presentation for the Glassfish Aquarium project at Sun who use USTREAM to broadcast their content to anyone interested in engaging with the team via this medium. The content is interesting and this is a better way to make presentations more engaging as not only do they provide the video feed but also a twitter mashup for interactive feedback from the audience. If you agree and want to see additional innovators using the internet to engage with their community members in a more engaging way then you should check out Leo Laporte on Twit.tv. I have been following the work that Leo Laporte has been doing with FLOSS, MacBreakWeekly and SecurityNow where he is innovating how to provide video content via the web. He has in effect created his own broadcasting company. SecurityNow has done some recent podcasts on the conflicker worm and the recent cyberespionage that has been in the news which is interesting and informative.
For those of you that missed Ludo's presentation on OpenDS. Here is the video.
The third day at MySQL Conference was a lot of fun. We did a presentation on how to integrate MySQL into Enterprise Identity Management Framework. We talked about several of the following ways Sun Microsystems does this. We discussed the role of Virtual Directories as ways to access attributes within LDAP and MySQL applications to create a single authentication point. This could be used as organizations try to integrate applications within a merger or acquistion, for organizations attempting to Federate with partners, etc. Additionally, we talked about the role of LDAP to MYSQL within the new release of MySQL Cluster 7.0. It is now possible with OpenDS to store data within a clustered database to combine the best of LDAP and Transactional Clustered databases.
Additionally, we talked about the new adapter that the OpenSSO team is creating that will allow customers to use MySQL as a user repository. The Agent that the team is creating is on their roadmap for July release later this year. We talked also about the increasing need for webservices security inside companies and capabilities of OpenSSO to help organizations provided that added security.
Lastly, we talked about Identity Manager and Role Manager and the ability for Identity Manager to connect to MySQL and thus allow organizations to provision users into applications built on MySQL. Also, in Role Manager MySQL can be used as a datawarehouse for role mining and reporting.
Additionally, Felix Gaethens from Kuppinger Cole wrote an interesting article comparing the Oracle and Sun Identity Management offerings. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on their analysis. It is as Felix says in the article and interesting mental exercise.
Tuesday at the MySQL Conference in Santa Clara was a lot of fun. MySQL Cluster 7.0 announced their latest release of their high availability and scalable database architecture (read the release here). The carrier grade version of the product will provide support for OpenDS LDAP to MySQL Cluster driver. There were over a 100 people at Johan Andersson's presentation on using MySQL Cluster 7.0 presentation at 5:25 last night. The team walked through high availability reference architectures and a high level overview of the LDAP to MySQL driver options. It is powerful for companies that need a standardized way to integrate applications using LDAP and need transactional distributed data architecture for auditing or relational integrity.
At 7:30pm we had a Birds-of-a-Feather session with about 15 people who wanted to go deep on a couple of different ways to integration LDAP to MySQL. We talked about the value of virtual directories and the ability to connect to MySQL for authentication. We see this a lot with mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, we talked about building authentication and authorization routines for MySQL into LDAP. Lastly, we went deep with the Alcatel Lucent team on some high availabity and LDAP to MySQL. It was a great discussion. Here are the slides.
If you want to meet Ping Luo (a technology manager on the OpenSSO team and the celebrity that helped launch the Ping Identity vs. Sun video funfest last year) come by our booth. He will be in the Sun Identity Pod from 10-1:30pm today. Here is the video and Ping's response.
The Identity Management Team will be at the MySQL and RSA Conferences this week in Northern California. If you are into security or building innovative applications for the enterprise then this is an exciting week.
It is an exciting week as we will be talking about our work between MySQL and Identity giving customer's the maximum choice to build solutions. We have a Birds of a Feather presentation on Tuesday evening at 6:30 in Ballroom C, where Ludo Poitou, the Community Manager for OpenDS, will be talking about how to use MySQL and Directory together as identity repositories. We will be talking about some new news at this BOF and hope you will be there to hear this exciting news.
Twitter is a great tool during conferences as you can hear where the great presentations are occurring and in some cases and sometimes get advanced warnings of topics that might not be of interest to you. Here are the twitter accounts that I will be following: (or you can follow me @nwooler)
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