Posts with keyword: federation

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Federating Personal Clouds

Wed Apr 11 11:26:00 2012

One of the most important aspects of personal clouds, as we envision them, is their ability to federate. Without federation, personal clouds are as interesting as a computer without a network connection. Federation turns personal clouds into automated assistants.
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Federating with Identi.ca

Tue Aug 12 18:57:00 2008

Twitter's performance problems over the past few months have made people skittish about basing businesses, even ideas, on it. The problem isn't just performance problems, however. When one company controls what many come to consider a key piece of infrastructure (who'd have thought they'd read that about Twitter 18 months ago), it creates a brittle situation. What if they can't perform or go out of business? Enter Identi.ca, a Twitter-like site that's based on open source software called laconi.ca. The key problem with something like Identi.ca is that if it's just another centralized solution, nothing's changed. Laconi.ca has the
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Ping vs Sun

Tue Jan 29 13:55:00 2008

A few days ago, someone at Sun made a video that poked some fun at Ping Identity (disclosure, I'm on their advisory board--I think--it's been a long time). Ping fired back with a humorous video of their own. Heck, if they both keep acting like this, the world's going to have to pay attention to federation, just for entertainment value alone!
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Federated Identity Hubs

Tue Oct 17 09:13:00 2006

I put a piece on federated identity hubs like InCommon and Covisint up at Between the Lines.
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Passive Federation

Wed Sep 13 12:36:00 2006

Patrick Harding, CTO at Ping, is speaking with Kim Cameron on using CardSpace in the enterprise. Patrick discusses how traditional federation allowed user data to flow between enterprise systems without the user's consent. Rather than refer to the case where the user is structurally involved as "user-centric" however, he introduces the term "active federation," calling the traditional federation scenario "passive."
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Liberty and Federated Identity

Sat Apr 1 12:41:00 2006

When I wrote about Federated Identity Governance for InfoWorld, I spoke to 5 or 6 companies who were successfully federating identity and had been dealing with governance issues. Most of these were also members of the Liberty Aliance. A few people have asked me how it happened that I wrote an article about federation, talked to so many members of Liberty, and yet failed to mention Liberty Alliance in the article. The easy answer is space. I had to cut 500 or 600 words as it is and was trying to get the key ideas into the space I
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Federated Identity Feature

Mon Mar 27 14:45:00 2006

SAML Federated ID (InfoWorld)(click to enlarge) My feature on Federated Identity Governance came out today in InfoWorld. There are three pieces: The hidden challenges of federated identity - Federation is the logical goal of identity infrastructures, but achieving it takes more than just technology User-centric identity brings federation close to home- Agreements between peers can add up to an effective federation Scaling a federated identity infrastructure - Most identity federations start small, but as they grow in size you may need to rethink your approach If you read them and want to know more, buy the book!
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Federated Identity Checklist

Tue Feb 28 16:51:00 2006

I'm putting together a checklist of things to do to help federation succeed for the feature I'm writing for InfoWorld. Here's my list so far. Any other's that ought to be in there based on your experience? Find win-win situations where both parties benefit from the federation Start with internal projects Find an experienced partner for your first external federation Create a center of excellence in the CIO's office Establish a federated identity council to get input from business users Educate the legal department about federation and develop an in-house legal expert Pay attention to privacy Make sure your
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