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Where does he get that wonderful identity data?

By Clayton Donley on July 21, 2008 12:03 PM

Finally getting around to participating in the latest stream of blog postings following up the "meta-directory is dead" and "daddy, does Active Directory grow on trees?" discussions... Nishant has already addressed some of these comments in his post from July...

Ian Yip Just Saved You 3 Hours - Metadirectories are dead?

By Clayton Donley on July 8, 2008 7:36 PM

You can read the 18+ blog postings covering all of the recent discussions about how dead or not-dead meta-directories really are. Or, you can read Ian's post that summarizes this whole discussion and save those three hours to line-wait for...

Running Orace Directory Manager on Your Laptop...

By Clayton Donley on July 8, 2008 6:34 PM

Dan Norris just gave me a heads up on Twitter that Peter O'Brien from Oracle in Ireland posted a short "how-to" for running the OID Directory Manager client on a machine that doesn't have a full copy of OID (e.g....

Directories vs. Virtual Directories? Really?

By Clayton Donley on July 8, 2008 12:18 PM

Still picking my jaw up off the floor from this comment from Alex @ the ApacheDS project on Jeff Bohren's blog. Seems Dave Kearns noticed it as well. :-) So for those of you worried that Jeff and I might...

Personal Fire Trucks and Overengineering Identity Solutions

By Clayton Donley on May 19, 2008 8:46 PM

So I noticed an odd headline in a news feed from the Chicago Tribune this morning: Neighbors seeing red over man's firetruck The gist is that a man purchased a fire truck on e-bay, built a garage near his suburban...

Dave and Vikas Hop on the Right Bus

By Clayton Donley on May 11, 2008 10:58 PM

While I may not agree that doing SQL through your virtual directory to get access to combined views of transactions and identity information is the right way to go (and I think Dave really wasn't trying to say that anyway),...

I'm Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that...

By Clayton Donley on May 11, 2008 9:25 PM

Dave Kearns has followed up on Kim Cameron's posting from Friday. Kim says that sometimes you need to copy data in order to join it with other data Dave says the same thing, except indicates that you wouldn't copy the...

Re: Talking about the Identity Bus

By Clayton Donley on May 10, 2008 8:20 AM

Kim Cameron of Microsoft makes a pitch for why Metadirectory is still relevant, or at least why data needs to live in multiple places. One key element of this argument is that when combining transactional data with identity data, you're...

Re: The COBOLization of LDAP

By Clayton Donley on May 10, 2008 7:10 AM

Dave continues in his latest posting... It does seem that when a bold thought is made as an pithy, somewhat humorous statement that it's seen as some how denigrating the subject. so let me say it once again - Like...

LDAP as the COBOL of Identity?

By Clayton Donley on May 9, 2008 2:53 AM

Dave Kearns says LDAP is the COBOL of Identity. Jeff Bohren says it's actually the SNMP of Identity. So now that we're talking about LDAP's role in the universe... There's no pressing need to get rid of LDAP in existing...

AmTrust Bank Talks about Centralizing Database Authentication

By Clayton Donley on April 22, 2008 4:46 PM

AmTrust Bank packed the room at Oracle OpenWorld, but thankfully the web's a little larger and has more comfortable chairs. There will be a Webcast on May 1st at 1pm EDT (10am PDT) that reprises the original session and includes...

Virtual, Meta, and Identity Buses -- Oh My!

By Clayton Donley on April 15, 2008 12:37 PM

Wow. Lots of good discussion lately on both the identity services topic as well as general directory services (meta, virtual, and the like). I'll start with Jeff Bohren's AD as the elephant in the room post. I agree with Jeff...

Service Oriented Security - Oracle @ RSA

By Clayton Donley on April 11, 2008 5:21 PM

For those of you that don't like reading press releases and wonder what all he buzz is about our recently announced Service Oriented Security offerings, Tony Baer from OnStrategies has a great roll-up here. Nishant Kaushik, one of our key...

LDAP to NIS Gateway?

By Clayton Donley on April 8, 2008 12:57 AM

For those of you that don't like reading press releases and wonder what all he buzz is about our recently announced Service Oriented Security offerings, Tony Baer from OnStrategies has a great roll-up here. Nishant Kaushik, one of our key...

Responses to the 2 Billion Entry OID Benchmark...

By Clayton Donley on April 4, 2008 2:19 PM

We got a lot of response to our benchmark on the Web and in our email bag. The responses were by the press, customers, and (most vocally) our competitors. Regardless of where the responses came in from, the one thing...