An important milestone just got passed by Google – one of the big
enterprise identity management vendors out there – Quest Software (full
disclosure: I am working for the company) – has added Google Apps as a
directory to which they can provision identities and access.
One might argue that this is a small thing considering that Quest is by far
not the first vendor to enter Google’s ecosystem. Google Solutions
Marketplace lists a few hundred solutions and services around Google Apps and
Enterprise Search.
However, Quest is the first among the big systems management (Quest, HP, CA,
BMC, Symantec) and identity management (Quest, Oracle, Sun, Novell) vendors
to get in there and this is a very important milestone for Google’s
acceptance in the enterprise.
Technically, what Quest did was adding a Google Apps “connector” into
their identity management and provisioning pla... (more)
What do enterprise IT architects need to know about the Cloud? What is the
difference between SAML and OAuth? Can you really host an AD domain
controller in the cloud? How do you enable single sing-on (SSO) between
Active Directory and Salesforce.com? Microsoft’s Office 365 or Google Apps?
What is the state of art for security and compliance in the cloud?
These are just some of the questions which are probably going to be discussed
at The Experts Conference 2011 in Las Vegas, April 17-20 2011.
If these questions are relevant to you – register today and get the early
bird discount... (more)
With the recent changes in the leadership of one of Microsoft’s key
business units – Server and Tools – from Bob Muglia to Satya Nadella one
can’t help speculating what this means for the business unit and how it
will affect Microsoft’s cloud strategy, specifically Windows Azure –
Microsoft’s platform as a service.
Here’s my uneducated guess based on the assumption that given a new task
humans tend to use the same approaches which worked well for them last time,
and that Satya definitely got this post as a recognition for successfully
rolling out Bing and transforming Microsoft’... (more)
Apache TomEE supported in Jelastic PaaS is a Java EE server, which provides
you with the best technology stack that can be deployed to a simple Java EE
container. It's lightweight and at the same time is a full-blown application
server, which remains simple and avoids architecture overhead. Today you'll
see how easy it is to deploy Java web apps into TomEE. In the following
tutorial you'll learn the basics of web application development with the help
of the Apache Struts framework, which is an absolutely free open-source
solution for creating Java web apps.
Create environment
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Analysts should love hype – it lets them jump into a hot area and be the
thought leaders who everyone has to consult to make any sense out of what is
going on in the area.
“Cloud” is probably the most hyped word in the industry these days and
everyone has a definition of what it is. And despite this being a running
joke in the industry, everyone obviously needs definition conversion to
happen so we can start speaking the same language here.
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) stepped in and did
– from my perspective – something truly amazing: they provided ... (more)
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