26 March 06 - 20:04An Update on Delta SyncRepl
Jan-Piet Mens asked about improved ways of replicating his directory over slow and unreliable network links. We recommended Delta Syncrepl, a new improvement of the pull-replication introduced in OpenLDAP 2.2 some time ago. He wrote a report about his experiences (good experiences).
Delta Syncrepl is an enhancement of the Syncrepl capability introduced in OpenLDAP 2.2. It brings forward some earlier technology Symas (Howard Chu, Chief Architect and Core Team member of OpenLDAP) had developed for an internal project. It significantly reduces the traffic and load on the Replica Server. That made it perfect for Jan-Piet.
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23 March 06 - 16:51A small rose ...
thrown at OpenLDAP in the middle of the report on the UK Unix User's Group. "Confirmed that OpenLDAP is truly cool."
We think so. OpenLDAP has evolved quickly and has lots of new features and capabilities. Glad someone's noticed.
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15 March 06 - 19:04So what else is new ...
The Washington Post reports on the annual report card of the Department of Homeland Defense in the article DHS Gets Another F in Computer Security. 'Nuff said?
This is Enterprise Identity and Authorization Management. It is the kind of thing that Sun's or IBM's or HP's Identity Management (IAM) solutions are supposed to address. Obviously, either the technology can't do the job or these departments aren't stepping up to the plate. Much of what they're apparently being criticized for is stuff you have to do to prepare for rolling out IAM software, so maybe that's part of the problem.
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15 March 06 - 14:24Reputation as the New Currency
Dave Kearns, that wacky revolutionary (NOT) over at NetworkWorld in his latest article found little but Dick Hardt's speech at the O'Reilly-run Emerging Technology Conference. Dick's the CEO of Sxip Technology and proponent of their Sxore product which "brings identity and reputation to blogging".
Oddly, for a guy who seemingly earns his living writing about the Identity Management products of the big advertisers software companies, he disses "Big Identity." What's up with that?
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14 March 06 - 11:19"Imagining An Open-Source World"
By way of a mention in BrokeKid, a link to a story with the title "Imagining An Open-Source World."
Remember the "imagining" part. It's doubtful it's a story about a real company, but it sure sounds good.
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09 March 06 - 18:14Maybe We Need VC Funding <winks>
Symas Corp. and OpenLDAP are doing fine! The community is doing great deeds and we believe OpenLDAP (distributed by Symas as Connexitor™ Directory Services or CDS) is the fastest, most reliable, and most flexible LDAP Directory Server on the market.
But we don't get the ink or the respect.
Maybe if Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, and/or some of the other big name VCs put some cash in, say twenty bucks each , we'd get the recognition that something amazing was happening in this space.
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09 March 06 - 16:28Mirror Mode
As of Release 3.1, Connexitor™ Directory Services (CDS) has a Mirror Mode. CDS 3.1 is based on OpenLDAP Version 2.3.
The new Mirror Mode facility lets you maintain a hot-standby to the Master Directory Server. The active Master Directory Server takes updates from the network. The other, a Secondary or Mirrored Master, is kept up to date through Synch Replication. If the Master Server goes down, a load balancer or application monitor can switch the client request flow to the Mirrored master and dynamically update the Replica Directory Servers (if any) to use the new Master.
This has all the advantages of Multi-master without the data integrity problems or the cross-master locking overheads.
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07 March 06 - 12:16More Business Model Blather
It calls itself searchopensource.com and you'd think it would be pro-Open Source. But neither the reporters nor the editor (if there is one) gets it, IMHO. This article is seemingly slanted at making the Enterprise CIO or manager more comfortable with using Open Source. But is that still an issue? Or is this a back-handed scare tactic? Look at the first question:
Worries about the support provided by commercial open source software (OSS) vendors turned up as a top adoption barrier for IT managers we recently surveyed. Is that concern well-founded?
Nice inflammatory opening, isn't it? Was the question, "if you had a reason not to install all the Open Source you've been installing the last five years, what would the top reason be?"
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06 March 06 - 08:50Higgins ... second thoughts
I guess if you read enough, you finally start to get it. I followed a link in a comment to a Phil Becker article to another Higgins explanation article on Shekar Jha's IAM site.
If you care, at all, read it all. It doesn't take that long. My net net: Higgins is a celebration of the continuing proliferation of Identity smokestack (Directory) technologies. It is the anti-virtual-Directory abstraction layer. It is like a rich man hitching a ride with a wagon train taking off from Saint Louis after trains started running all the way across the continent. IMHO, somebody's going to get it right and both Higgins and Infocard stand to be embarrassed.
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06 March 06 - 04:21Higgins ...
IBM, Novell and others sprang Higgins on the world at RSA 2006. John Fontana published an overview article today, over at NetworkWorld. For links to this and two more articles, see Aldo Castaneda's post.
The partners claim it will be interoperable with Microsoft's Identity Metasystem and that Higgins is not a competitor to Identity Card. It actually sounds oddly like the opposite approach to the problem.
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05 March 06 - 11:35Dept. of Defense at RSA '06
Identity Woman posted her notes from the DoD talk at RSA '06. She comments that it is big business ($400B?) and that Identity and Access Management are a really big deal.
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03 March 06 - 16:31Is your staff a Security Threat?
This is the drift of an article on NetworkWorld by Dave Kearns. Ignore the annoying reference to another article that takes you to a sight asking for $3.95 to read the material. Get what value there is from Dave's article.
The simple answer is "yes".
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