Thursday Oct 22, 2009
Yesterday, Neil Ghandi, Matt Hamlin, Etienne Remillon and I gave a quick overview of what is new in Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7 and Role Manager 5. Here are just a few of the great highlights that were discussed during the presentation. Of course, you can get the full video embeded below. Lastly, if you are interested in seeing more events like this you can go to the webinar site here.
You can download the slides here. You can download the video here.
Friday Oct 16, 2009
Sun's Identity Team have been busy over the summer! On Oct. 9, 2009 the Identity Management Team announced the release of Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7 and Role Manager 5. Next Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 8:00am PT, Neil Ghandi (Role Manager Technical Product Manager) and I will be giving an overview of some of the great features that exist in the new releases. Here are a couple of highlights:
What's New with Directory Server EE 7.0
• Boosts speed and performance: DSEE 7.0 has been optimized to improve performance of some operations by more than 3x the current version. In addition, this release provides hardware optimization with up to 60% improvement in authentications and modifications.
• Reduces Total Cost of Ownership– Reduce cost by using the only solution in the market that provides customers with a directory server, virtual directory, proxy server, web console and Active Directory synchronization tool-kit under a single license.
• Hassle Free Upgrade – DSEE 7.0 provides a simple upgrade path and provides 5x performance improvement in data import times, thereby reducing migration costs.
What's New with Role Manager 5.0
• 360 Degree View of Assigned Access – A unified view of data related to user access that empowers reviewers to make more intelligent decisions concerning users access.
• Closed-loop Remediation – A complete end-to-end solution for reviewing user access and removing inappropriately assigned access.
• Rule Life-cycle Management – The first solution for managing the complete life-cycle of role assignment and SoD audit rules.
Interested in hearing more? Interested in hearing more about the release and what business problems it solves for your enterprise? Register here for the Webinar here:
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Improve Compliance, Access Controls, and Performance with Sun's Latest Releases of Role Manager and DSEE |
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 |
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10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT / 19.00 CET (check my timezone) |
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1 hour |
| Speaker: |
Sun Product Managers: Neil Gandhi and Nick Wooler
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| Registration:: |
Register Here
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Friday Aug 01, 2008
Tired of managing agents in your infrastructure? OpenSSO provides a great way to reduce the number of agents that you have to manage in your application infrastructure. Aravindan Ranganathan, a Technical Architect on the Sun team, wrote a great article on how to use the Identity Services that are available in OpenSSO to include security in your applications. This article focuses on Single-Sign-On and Sign-Out but this the fourth in the series focused on Identity Services. You can look at the other articles here:
The article goes into great technical depth on how to do the following:
Identity Services are important in a number of ways for customers looking for a Web Access Management solution. They not only allow you to build security into applications or reduce the number of agents they have to manage. The identity services also allow customers an architecture for better integration into their application architecture giving them ultimately more choice. When you create enterprise software you have to design for a number of different environments. The ability to access these services gives customers the maximum amount of choice and a choice leads to lower costs and higher value.
Lastly, I wanted to thank Marina Sum and her team for these great articles on OpenSSO. The content and technical detail are valuable to the community.
Monday Jul 28, 2008
OpenSSO Express has had a fun first week. Sun is announcing that it will now provide comprehensive support and indemnification for OpenSSO. This will be called OpenSSO Express. OpenSSO is the worlds largest open source identity project that provides fully featured single sign-on, federation management and web services security capabilities in a single Java distribution. Customers who purchase Access Manager, the current release of Sun's commercial version of OpenSSO, are now entitled to both support and indemnification for OpenSSO through OpenSSO Express. This move is in response to demand from both Sun Access Manager customers and OpenSSO community members who requested support for OpenSSO rather than waiting for the next commercial product release.
Some of you may have seen my article on SDN where we explained the new model to the developer community. You can read the entire text here. I work with Marina Sum who is a great writer but more importantly a valued manager who kept an eye on the detail of the article. She is a great asset to Sun and you can read the text here.
Also, if you haven't seen Daniel's blog lately you should see his new moniker (The Smoking Monkey). This was derived from the work that was done on the teaser campaign for the Fedlet. However, it was Cote who gave him the name. YOu should read his blog regularly because not only does he cover the identity space but he also has a deep background in System Management and you can see from his blog title he has his priorities in order. If you ever get a chance ask him about whether he has ever seen a man walking a cat on a leash?
This is how Sun defines the different releases in the OpenSSO Community.
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Community
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OpenSSO Periodic or Nightly Build
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Nightly builds of OpenSSO that customers can download but can only get support from the community via IRC, email or documentation.
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Open Source Supported
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Sun OpenSSO Express build
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Periodic builds (e.g. released every one to two months) that Sun will provide support to customers that have purchased a license and a valid support contract |
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Sun Java System Access Manager
Sun Java System Federation Manager
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Commercially supported release of OpenSSO. Sun continues to support backwards compatibility and current release plus the previous two versions for customers. Customer's can get long term support for their production deployments from Sun. |
Here is a picture which describes the new release model. Sun will
provide support for the latest OpenSSO Express build and the previous
build (e.g. latest minus one).
This is another move by Sun to align naming and policy across it's OSS projects. It is important because it give's customer choice. Customer's can choose to start projects earlier without having to ask their sales guy for an "early access" version of the software that may or may not be tested by a proprietary software vendor. OpenSSO has 80% of its' code covered by automated test cases. Additionally, customer's that are ready to go to production today can monetize those projects within their business models. This means they can make money today with the knowledge that Sun is there to support their business. This gives customer's choice and opportunity which they did not have last week.
We are excited about what this does for our customers.
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