Well, my friends, it is time for me to say goodbye. It’s been a wonderful 5 years at Sun. As many probably suspected, I will not be joining the Oracle Identity team.

These past five years have been the best professional experiences in my life. I had a blast working with the Java Enterprise System team and Sun’s systems management team, but nothing beats my experience working with the most talented Identity Management team in the world. Oracle is inheriting THE BEST Identity products available and I wish them luck on their strategy and direction.

Although I’m very happy that this process has finally come to a close, I am sad to see Sun fading away. I believe the environment that Sun fostered was a once in a lifetime opportunity and I appreciate the experience and have tremendous gratitude for all that it offered me.

Since I host my own blog now, I will continue to blog here about everything identity. Also, If you want to keep in touch, feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn.

I just finished editing a video on how to federate to Salesforce CRM using OpenSSO in under 5 minutes. It was a lot of fun to make. Like our Google Apps Starter Kit, we’ll be launching a Salesforce Starter Kit shortly that walks you through a step-by-step guide on how to do this as well. Basic jist is this solution allows you to reduce sign-ons for your employees and allows them to access Salesforce services using their enterprise credentials rather than their Salesforce credentials. Enjoy!

It’s heeeeeere!

Have you heard colleagues talking about OAuth, but don’t understand how it can be used in the real world? Are you looking for lightweight solutions to federate with Java and .NET apps? Would you like to offer multi-factor authentication without having to purchase token hardware for all your employees?
Watch this FREE webinar and learn how Sun Microsystems, Inc. is innovating in these areas and many more to provide simple, pragmatic solutions in a single product. You’ll learn how the latest release of OpenSSO can help you secure all your core resources with a single product regardless of whether your resources are internal, external or in the cloud.

If you have a spare hour tomorrow (Wednesday August 18th 2009) morning, join me as I will be presenting a webinar titled OpenSSO Express for Improved SSO. The webinar is at 10am PDT/1pm EDT/7pm CET for an update on the very latest features in OpenSSO Express 8 and beyond, such as mobile one-time passwords, the Fedlet for .Net, and SalesForce.com integration. We will also be previewing our OAuth Token Service.

OpenSSO is now part of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) CONNECT Architecture. CONNECT implements a flexible, open-source gateway solution that enables healthcare entities – Federal agencies or private-sector health organizations or networks – to connect their existing health information systems to the NHIN.
As part of CONNECT, OpenSSO acts as the:
1) Authentication Service for citizen registration
2) Policy Enforcement Point
3) and one of two choices for a pluggable Policy Decision Point
Read about OpenSSO and the CONNECT Reference Architecture here!

Theeeeeeeey’re heeeeeeeeere . . .

Building on the now classic “Fedlet for Java / Guns N’ Roses Video,” we now have a video for the newly released Fedlet for .NET. BTW, thanks to Giuseppe Gennaro, engineering rock star extraordinaire, for helping to pull this together. Also, to experience the Fedlet download OpenSSO Enterprise Update 1. Enjoy!

Nice video by resident slacker / sales engineer Paul Walker on how the Sun Identity Management suite can complement Sun’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). The demo shows how Sun can provide the whole stack from the operating system, smartcards, SunRay thin client device, desktop delivery mechanism and Identity Management (IdM) to offer a complete and secure VDI solution. The products used in this demo include the following (in no particular order) . . .
* Sun OpenSSO Enteprise
* Sun Identity Manager
* Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition
* SunRay Server
* Sun Secure Global Desktop
* Sun VirtualBox
* Sun VDI
* OpenSolaris 2008.11

Almost everywhere I go I get the question . . . “What’s Geneva Server?” “How does Geneva interoperate with OpenSSO?” “Are Geneva Server and Geneva Framework the same?” “Should I store my policies in OpenSSO or Geneva?”
In the past, I’ve had to provide long winded answers that leave me out-of-breath and huffing and puffing for air. Now, I can simply point to our new whitepaper, jointly produced with Microsoft, to provide the answers — Microsoft “Geneva” Server and Sun OpenSSO: Enabling Unprecedented Collaboration Across Hetergeneous IT Environments.
The whitepaper validates a number of common use cases between OpenSSO and Geneva. It shows how you can use OpenSSO and Geneva to protect Sharepoint apps. It shows how you can use the OpenSSO Fedlet, which just won the best innovation award at the European Identity Conference, to protect .NET apps. In short it’s a good read and answers some pretty commonly asked questions. Enjoy!
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