Better late than never, they say. So first of all Happy New year to you and I wish all the readers of my blog the very best health, happiness and success in managing IAM projects in 2012! I am writing this post from Bangalore, India where I am wrapping up the final touches on a [...]
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Competition Heats Up In Enterprise Software
I haven’t blogged here for awhile, and being honest there is extraordinary change happening in our industry that anything I posted here could need to be re-written. In the meanwhile, the business of enterprise software is coming under intense pressure as I imagined it would as cheaper and more robust applications and services come online. [...]
Is the Age of Virtualization upon us?
This week I relished in the announcement here and this Metalink article that Oracle recently made about support for running Oracle on VMware virtualized environments. Then again, for those of us who have been doing the same for awhile now, it’s not *that* big of a deal. Or is it? Having spent a fair amount [...]
Automated Refresh of Oracle Data with EMC at VMworld
Do you want to learn how VMware manages Oracle Data and Oracle Identity Management middleware with EMC and VMware technologies? Are you curious how VMware rapidly builds new Oracle OID and Access Manager environments with it’s own products? I will be in San Francisco at VMworld next week presenting “Automated Refresh of Oracle Data” during [...]
Virtualization, Clouds and The Future of IAM
As an old hand at Oracle IdM (going on 10 years now) it is a bit hard for me to digest, but my instinct tells me that survival means adapting to the seas of change rather than trying to run from them. There is a bright future and a lot of pent up demand in cloud services, where new models will soon overshadow the shortcomings of client/server and internet architectures. The old school IAM stacks are not going away anytime soon, but the IdM professional will need to learn new models and standards to keep pace with where this industry might be heading.
Self Motivation or What gets me out of bed in the morning?
Unless you have a monster for a boss who likes to micromanage every minute of your day, then the disciplines and behaviors required for achieving your career goals are largely going to be your own responsibility and doing (as they should be.) So instead of waiting for opportunity and success to come to you, I think it’s best to take initiative and begin taking actions every day that will help improve your reputation, your career and ultimately your level of income.
Password insanity!
Authentication and password policies are the bane of my existence. I really feel sorry for millions of consumers who have no idea whats going on (exactly) with the crazy and absurd requirements that companies put in place for logging in to view account balances or make payments. As I have a few ideas about whats [...]
