During Monday’s keynote address at Quest’s The Expert’s Conference, Microsoft revealed that they have split Forefront Identity Manager from the Sync Engine it uses (formerly MMS, MIIS, ILM 2007) and placed the Sync engine under Conrad Bayer. I am not certain this fully constitutes a shift in strategy for FIM or the reality that legacy [...]
The free e-book series titled, The Essentials Series: Tackling Active Directory’s Four Biggest Challenges (sponsored by Quest Software) was just posted as a free download on realtimepublisher.com web site. The four areas that are covered are: Article 1: Merging and Restructuring Domains without User Impact Article 2: Quickly Recovering Deleted Active Directory Objects Article 3: [...]
From Tony Murry at ActiveDir.org… “Hi all, The ISP that we have been using to host ActiveDir.org for the past 8 years is shutting down and we are preparing to transfer the site to another hosting service. The mailing list subscription and site user account information will remain the same and no action is required [...]
Ok, this is cool. The ActiveRoles Server – Integration Center demo page is available. In the Integration Center you will find 3 to 5 minute videos showing how strategic Quest products integrate with ActiveRoles Server. In addition to a strong history of development innovation, Quest also acquires other organizations with industry leading technologies. The combination [...]
IBM has dropped it’s bid to purchase sun according to the New York Times – citing legal concerns on the part of IBM. So what is next for SUN? I would imagine it will continue to shed employees until it reaches the 18% employee reduction goal it set in November last year. Already hard pressed [...]
It looks like IBM’s offer for SUN was perfectly timed. Sun announced 1500 employees have been let go as part of the restructuring that will eventually reduce their workforce by 18%. According to SUN, eventually, 5000 to 6000 employees will be let go. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090331/sun-microsystems-layoffs500-workers.htm http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/31/ibm-sun-do-they-have-a-deal-does-it-matter/
My Friday post seems to have been too optimistic about Microsoft’s April launch of ILM 2 (See http://www.bobbobel.com/ilm-2-news/ ). Yesterday morning Microsoft announced that ILM 2 wouild be delayed until sometime next year at the earliest. I know there are not only going to be customers upset by this news, but also 3rd party software [...]
Quest One, led by ActiveRoles Server, won SC Magazine’s Identity Managment Best-Buy award. There is a great screen shot Access Manager. You can read the article here! http://www.quest.com/Quest_Site_Assets/PDF/QuestOneWinsSCMagazineBestBuy2009.pdf
