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Managing IAM In Uncertain Times – 2012 Edition

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 [...]

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 [...]

My Thoughts on IdAM for 2011

Happy New Year, everyone! It’s been a couple months since my last post, so I thought I’d better get with the program and keep fresh updates coming. In addition to a few other goals of mine for the new year, which I’m sure a lot of you have as well, writing more about IdM and [...]

Oracle Open World 2010 Wrap-up

It’s been a little over a week since OOW, and finally getting back into the swing of things. I should say up front that while I spoke at Oracle Open World, this was not a general session like VMworld, but instead I spoke from the VMware booth at Oracle Open World. Not only was it [...]

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.

VMware shows its prowess Cloning Oracle IdM

I grew up in a painting family and was raised by a father who was a skilled crafstman, an expert with a lifelong career in painting.  The thing you would expect, that our house would always have a fresh coat each season, or a fresh paint at all, is far from reality.  It’s like the [...]

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 [...]

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