A couple of announcements that may have slipped under the radar – two security partnerships at BrainShare:
SecureWave – providing removable device lockdown and security, application white and blacklisting – all tied in to Novell Identity
Third Brigade – providing a smart, small, host based intrusion detection system.
Press here from Third Brigade. I’ll add SecureWave when it hits the wire.
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I have been asked many times during Novell BrainShare for examples of how Novells Identity, Security and Access Management products will integrate with Novell ZENworks – our cross platform management solution.
One example I have been giving is that of a customer looking to deploy a new Line of Business application – typically a complex multi-tiered client-middleware-database infrastructure.
Written at: BrainShare 2006, Salt Lake City, UT
The non-Novell way of doing this is to deliver an application to the desktop; create user identities within the new application – and give the end user another login and password to remember. Certainly not a good experience for the user; and not cost effective for the enterprise.
Using Novell Identity Management solutions you see a very different story. ZENworks can deliver the client application components to the desktop – cleanly and consistently; Novell SecureLogin can enable Enterprise Single Sign-on to the application; and Novell Identity Manager can provision the correct users, their password and their credentials into the identity store for the application.
The differences are striking. Lowered costs of deployment, increased agility, less challenges for the helpdesk during deployment – and ultimately a simple experience for the user – just click on the application icon and it ‘just works’.
This is another real-world example of how Novell is integrating solutions – from security, access, identity and resource management.
Let me know how you are dealing with these challenges.
Written at: BrainShare 2006, Salt Lake City, UT
I’ve just got my latest nightly build of Firefox – it’s tagged as version 2.0 and codename is “Bon Echo”.
So far so good – I’m using it right now to write this post. Most extension are not supported because of specific versioning – but everything else is looking pretty clean.
Microsoft announced today that Vista slipped; corporate customers will get the code by year end, consumers after new year.
UPDATE: Microsoft Delays Vista For Consumers Until January
By Michael Paige
LOS ANGELES (Dow Jones) – Microsoft Corp. said late Tuesday the next version of its Windows operating system won’t be available to consumers until January, a delay that means the product won’t be available in time for the key holiday sales season.
Microsoft shares fell more than 2% in evening trading following news of the delay. The stock closed the regular session off 0.5% at $27.74 and has ranged in price from $23.82 to $28.38 over the last 52 weeks.
Microsoft (MSFT) previously had said the software would be available for both consumer and corporate customers in the second half of this year. The software giant said in a statement it remains on track to ship the product to business users in November.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company aims to release a test version of Vista for consumers in the second quarter of this year.
Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft’s platforms and services division, said the industry requires a greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new personal computers during the holiday period.
“We must optimize for the industry, so we’ve decided to separate business and consumer availability,” the executive said.
Late last month, Microsoft had said it was on track to deliver the latest release of its operating system, a cash cow, in the second half of this year and in time for the holiday season.
Day 2 (for me) of BrainShare 2006.
Today has been pretty intense – listening to the keynote while testing our session; then session presentation; then an afternoon of Press events.
Tonight it’s a private event in the Technology Lab for Novell’s financial and industry analysts; a handful of us are presenting ZENworks and Identity solutions.
I’m tired. Still to go – rehearsal and prep for tomorrows analyst summit.
Written at: BrainShare 2006, Salt Lake City, UT
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