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• New Issue of the Architecture Journal: Article on "Claims and Identity, On-Premise and Cloud Solutions"

  The latest issue of the Architecture Journal is available for download here (I am breaking the news even before the rest of the pages are updated from issue 15 to issue16: see how much I care about you?;-)). What makes this especially interesting is that issue 16 is entirely dedicated to identity! I have to admit that I've yet to read most of the articles, but I've definitely went through 2 of them: One is an interview/profile with Kim Cameron. It's a nice read, and I am sure you'll enjoy to know more about Kim The other is an article from yours truly, titled "Claims and Identity, On-Premise and Cloud Solutions". It expands on this post , and rolls in various others Writing for the Architecture Journal is a big honor, as you can see from the list of high profile former contributors, and I am very grateful to Diego for having my article in this issue. Thanks man! And thanks also to Gianpaolo , with whom I had many deep discussions that helped me to keep the abstraction tangents to what i hope is an acceptable level :-) As usual, if you have feedback feel free to send it my way Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 1:17 PM from Vibro.NET | 0 Comments Filed under: Identity, Windows Cardspace, CardSpace, Architecture - WS, Infocard, Federation, the Cloud, SaaS, Biztalk Services

• Biztalk Services

  Dennis announces the CTP of the Biztalk Services, one of the webbyest CTP we have: those are actually services, the only thing you need (if you want a quick start) is the SDK . There is much to be said about this new release, and I hope I'll be able to play with it soon (dear Editor, don't worry: I know I have to send the next chapter first :-)). However, I think that the most exciting news is in the following Dennis words: "your service opens at a URI on the connect.biztalk.net machines. Then a client connects to that URI and can start sending messages. We don’t want to be in the way of your app, so our relay will immediately try to establish a direct connection between clients" See? True P2P! What are you doing still reading this post, aren't you toying with it yet? :-) BTW, take a close look to the Identity Selector in the screenshot in Dennis' post: I'm sure that the loyal readers of this blog will recognize some of the cards (thanks James for pointing this out!) Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:03 AM from Vibro.NET | 0 Comments Filed under: Identity, Windows Cardspace, CardSpace, WCS, Architecture - WS, Infocard, the Web, the Cloud, SaaS, Biztalk Services

• Identity in a Deregulated IT world

  In short: Gianpaolo presents a daring proposition about a deregulated IT . I believe that GP's idea is a very valid one. In the post below I explore the implications of a world where consumerism is brought to the extremes of IT deregulation: in such a world user centric identity management and user control/consent are key enabling aspects that cannot be ignored . From time to time I have nice chats with Gianpaolo, during which he gives me glimpses of his thinking about where IT is going. I especially liked his considerations about consumerism and deregulated IT: not that he finally made a post on the topic , I can share some of the trends and implications I draw from it. The foundation of this entire matter lies in becoming fully aware of the trend that has been dubbed as consumerism. This is already a pretty loaded term already, however I really like the position of Peter Sondergaard (Gartner director of global research), as captured by David Berlind at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo: Sondergaard went on to describe how consumer technologies and configurations now rival and often exceed in the prowess of the corresponding technologies found in the organizations that are used to serving consumers on their terms ("their" being the organizational side). "Consumers are rapidly creating personal IT architectures capable of running corporate style IT architectures" said Sondergaard. "They have faster processors, more storage, and more bandwidth. In 2012, expect consumer technologies to Read More... Posted Friday, March 30, 2007 5:03 PM from Vibro.NET | 0 Comments Filed under: Identity, Windows Cardspace, CardSpace, Architecture - WS, Infocard, Wild Ideas, the Web, the Cloud, SaaS, Differentiated IT