Clayton Donley's Blog

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...