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Craig Burton

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Fusion Engines
July 15, 2013
One of my favorite movies released in 2012 was Cloud Atlas. This is not necessarily an easy movie to watch or explain. That is not the point I bring it up. In one of the films many timelines, there is a post-apocalyptic setting where civilization is very primitive. In this primitive…
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Craig Burton - Life Management Platforms
May 31, 2013
Recorded during the European Identity & Cloud Conference 2013
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More Consolidation for the API Economy
April 24, 2013
CA Technologies acquires Layer 7, MuleSoft acquires Programmable Web, 3Scale gets funding It is clear that the API Economy is kicking into gear in a big way. Last week, Intel announced its acquisition of Mashery, this week, CA Technologies announced its acquisition of Layer7 , MuleSoft…
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Intel Announces Mashery Acquisition
April 23, 2013
From partnership to acquisition Let there be no confusion. Intel is a hardware company. It makes microchips. This is its core business. History shows that companies do best when they stick to their roots. There are exceptions. At the same time, Intel has always dabbled in software at some…
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The Dark Side of Cloud Computing
April 19, 2013
When things go bad, it goes really bad At KuppingerCole we use Office365 extensively to manage our documents and keep track of document development and distribution. On April 9, 2013, Microsoft released a normal sized Tuesday update to Windows and Office products. The only thing is,…
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Another Case for IDMaaS
April 17, 2013
Identity Management is a universal problem When I pay my electric bill I usually just call the power company and give them my credit card. This month I decided that I should go set up auto payments on the web site and be done with it. So I opened the power company web site and attempted…
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The Façade Proxy
March 18, 2013
Securing BYOD With the rapidly emerging cloud-mobile-social Troika coupled with the API Economy, there are so many questions about how to design systems that can allow application access to internal information and resources via APIs that will not compromise the integrity of enterprise…
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How to Make an API
February 21, 2013
Introduction Making an API is hard. It is also a tough question. A small company out of England has figured out how to let anyone make an API with just: Dropbox A Spreadsheet A Datownia SaaS account Datownia One of the activities I practice to keep up with what is happening…
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Cloud Computing and Standards
January 25, 2013
Introduction The three biggest trends impacting computing today are what I call the Computing Troika. Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing and Social Computing. There is a fourth trend that is on par with each of the Troika movements. The API Economy. Finally there is the question of…
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It Takes a Community to Manage an API Ecosystem
November 28, 2012
Intro Starting at the EIC 2012 I have been talking and presenting a lot about The API Economy. The API Economy has become a strategic topic for organizations. As one can expect with a hot topic, there are many opinions and views on the matter. Therefore there a many comments, blog posts…
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Webinar Recording
Identity Management as a Service (IdMaaS) - the Dope or are we Duped?
October 31, 2012
KuppingerCole Webinar recording
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2012 International Oasis Cloud Symposium
October 17, 2012
The Intersection of Policies, Standards & Best Practices for Robust Public Sector Cloud Deployments Introduction Last week I was invited to attend the 2012 International Oasis Cloud Symposium. I was very impressed. The attendance was not large—in fact—the organizers limited the…
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Identity in an API Economy
October 17, 2012
KuppingerCole Webinar recording
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NSTIC Update
September 24, 2012
National Institute of Standards and Technology awards $9M to support trusted identity initiative Introduction On September 20, 2012, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) announced more than 9 million USD dollars of grant awards in support of the National Strategy…
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Salesforce Identity
September 21, 2012
Identity Management as a Service (IdMaaS) gets a new 500lb guerilla Introduction When I first heard of Salesforce’s Identity announcements this week at Dreamforce , I was reminded of the old joke “Q:Where does a 500lb. gorilla sit? A: Anywhere he wants.” Salesforce…
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SAML is Dead! Long Live SAML!
September 19, 2012
Answers to the unanswered questions from the webinar Introduction Last Friday on Sept. 14, Pamela Dingle—Sr. Technical Architect from Ping Identity Corp.—and I conducted a free webinar about the much ballyhooed demise of SAML. You can view the webinar in its entirety on the…
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Identity in a Post-PC Era
September 17, 2012
How 400M iOS devices changes everything Most of the planet at least paid a little bit of attention to the announcement of the iPhone 5 on Sept. 12 th . The anticipation for the announcement was so high, that sales of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s actually dipped some in the last…
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SAML is Dead. Long Live SAML!
September 17, 2012
KuppingerCole Webinar recording
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Making Good on the Promise of IdMaaS
June 21, 2012
As a follow up to Microsoft’s announcement of IdMaaS, the company announced the — to be soon delivered — developer preview for Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD). As John Shewchuk puts it: The developer preview, which will be available soon, builds on capabilities that Windows…
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Freedom of Choice != Your Choice of Captor
June 10, 2012
Earlier this week I posted a first-look analysis of Microsoft’s Cloud-based Identity Metasystem (IDMaaS). In that analysis I stated: Microsoft is not only doing something innovative — but profoundly innovative. On June 7, Nishant Kaushik (Chief Architect at Identropy) wrote on his blog…
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LinkedIn Hacked—More Reason for IdM in the Cloud
June 07, 2012
On June 6, 2012 LinkedIn was hacked and user accounts — names and passwords — were compromised . Follow LinkedIn’s advice on addressing the matter. There are just two things I want to say about this. 1. Service Providers should build hardened systems up-front Any service…
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What I would like to see First from IDMaaS
June 06, 2012
Intro Kim Cameron and John Shewchuk jointly rolled out Microsoft’s vision of Identity Management (IDMaaS) as a Service and then Microsoft’s implementation of that vision as Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD). I posted first impressions . Kim Cameron responded. This morning…
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Microsoft is Finally Being Relevant
June 05, 2012
Surprise surprise. For the last few years it looked as if the battling business units and power struggles within Microsoft had all but rendered the company incapable of doing anything innovative or relevant . But clearly something has happened to change this lack of leadership and apparent…
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Is API Growth in a Stall?
May 17, 2012
Intro Last year when we published the API Economy document , we showed the growth rate of APIs over time. Examining the numbers from the same source — the ProgrammableWeb — in 2012 it appears as if the hockey stick growth of over 100% each year is starting to slow down. What is…
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