In its quest to make its Silverlight technology as ubiquitous as its competitor Flash, Microsoft is moving full speed ahead to promote adoption of the technology through some strategic moves and partnerships it will highlight at its annual MIX 08 conference, including a deal with Nokia to put the technology on mobile devices.
As the Web has grown, the problem of content management seems to have absorbed more time and energy than even the effort required to create actual content. As a consequence the quest for the perfect Content Management System (CMS) has become high on the list of many corporations.
Sun’s quest to position OpenSolaris as a robust alternative to Linux is still hampered by myths surrounding the open source operating system and the software’s own limitations.
I want to discuss the big merger/aquisition announcement last week between Quest and NetPro, but before getting to that, there's a bit of a clarification about the last issue. Joerg Resch, senior partner at German-based analyst firm Kuppinger Cole, punctured my bubble this past week when he pointed out that the "fun" in Fun Communications (mentioned in the last issue) wasn't necessarily a reference to the joie de vivre spirit of the organization, but was an acronym for the founders - Feulner and [in German
I want to discuss the big merger/aquisition announcement last week between Quest and NetPro, but before getting to that, there's a bit of a clarification about the last issue. Joerg Resch, senior partner at German-based analyst firm Kuppinger Cole, punctured my bubble this past week when he pointed out that the "fun" in Fun Communications (mentioned in the last issue) wasn't necessarily a reference to the joie de vivre spirit of the organization, but was an acronym for the founders - Feulner and [in German
There have been quite a few product announcements recently which I haven't gotten to as yet but I wouldn't want you to think they aren't important, or at least useful. So today I'll give a quick rundown of them with pointers to where you can find out more. The announcements involve Novell Access Governance Suite, Sun's Identity Compliance Manager, Courion's PasswordCourier Jump Start, and a roadmap for NetPro.
There have been quite a few product announcements recently which I haven't gotten to as yet but I wouldn't want you to think they aren't important, or at least useful. So today I'll give a quick rundown of them with pointers to where you can find out more. The announcements involve Novell Access Governance Suite, Sun's Identity Compliance Manager, Courion's PasswordCourier Jump Start, and a roadmap for NetPro.
This week is the Fall Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), the twice-yearly gathering of identity folk, primarily from the user-centric camp but with a large contingent from the enterprise world (especially the enterprise federation space). I'll have a lot to say about these sessions in the coming weeks, but for today I'd like to catch up on recent news about the Quest/NetPro merger, SURFnet, Microsoft's Geneva, and a new role-based entitlements product from Centrify.
Speaking of Quest, as I was in the last issue, my friend Quest Senior Director, Product Management Jackson Shaw recently blogged about his predictions for 2009. One, in particular, resonated with me: "Do more with less (employees, consultants, temporary staff)."
I missed The Experts Conference last week (formerly the Directory Experts Conference), the first time in a number of years. And, as this was the first edition of the event since Quest assimilated NetPro last fall, I was quite interested in how it went.
Though the quest to acquire Yahoo dominated news surrounding Microsoft's Web strategy in 2008, another story was brewing quietly behind the scenes that could be even more significant for the company in the long run -- its move to offer hosted business productivity services.
Quest Software next week plans to update two of its management packages designed to make it easier to manage and provision users into Microsoft’s identity and access control infrastructure, whether they work on Windows, Linux or Unix.
In the never-ending quest for better network performance, two technologies - compression and traffic shaping - are often touted as bringing great advantages to enterprise networks. And while it's true that these are both excellent solutions, you have to make sure that you're applying the correct technology(ies) to solve the problem you're actually experiencing.
It’s taken a year and a half, but the IETF as a whole seems to have realized that it has problems and even has a good handle on what they are. Now - how to fix those problems? That’s the debate the Internet standards group started in on last week, and it’s a debate that’s bound to last some time.
IETF's quest to be quicker moves slowly
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1117ietf.html?net
Vizioncore, a start-up backed by management product vendor Quest Software, says it can eliminate the complexity of using VMware virtual machines for disaster recovery.
Quest Software, which has been building a cross-platform bridge between Linux and Windows systems, is expected to release early next year a tool that lets users monitor the open source operating system from their Microsoft management consoles.
MCI and the two principal objectors to its reorganization plan have reached a settlement agreement, removing an obstacle that could have complicated MCI's quest for ratification of its plan for emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Management vendor Quest Software on Tuesday said it would spend $56.5 million in cash to acquire privately held Vintela, which develops software to integrate Microsoft management tools with other platforms.
This past week was 2010's The Experts Conference in Los Angeles. Formerly it was the Directory Experts Conference, which was started almost 10 years ago by NetPro's Gil Kirkpatrick. In recent years it's expanded to cover not only Active Directory but also Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. Even NetPro's acquisition by Quest Software early last year has changed very little -- it's still very much Gil Kirkpatrick's baby.
The East Coast of North America is going through an unprecedented heat wave, but here on the West Coast it still feels like spring. Adding to that feeling, for me, is the number of announcements that major vendors are making --such as the two big ones in the past week.
The Computing Research Association needs you to contribute nifty ideas for stimulating discussions at the upcoming CRA Conference on Grand Research Challenges in Information Security & Assurance.
The long saga of satellite operator LightSquared's quest to become a cellular carrier may come to an end soon with an auction for the company's assets scheduled for late November.