Virtualization and Infrastructure

Moderator(s):

Sebastian Rohr Senior Analyst

KuppingerCole

Sessions:

Virtualization Trends and Strategies – from Hype to Reality

Date: Thursday, May 06, 2010 Time: 10:30-11:30

Virtualization Trends and Strategies – from Hype to Reality

Sebastian Rohr, KuppingerCole

Identity Issues of Virtualization

Mike Small, KuppingerCole

Most analysis and commentary for Security for Virtualized Environments has focused on Risk Mitigation with Threat Management solutions. As organizations adopt Virtualization technologies, a new set of Identity, Access and Auditing problems are introduced that increase the risk of exposure. Who cares about it? What measures can be taken today, and what are the practical approaches to this?

Manage Globally, Act Locally: How Context Virtualization will Change the Way We Secure Identities and Integrate Data

Date: Thursday, May 06, 2010 Time: 11:30-12:30

Manage Globally, Act Locally: How Context Virtualization will Change the Way We Secure Identities and Integrate Data

Michel Prompt, Radiant Logic • Dave Kearns, KuppingerCole

Imagine all the structured data in and beyond your organization: all the identities, all the transactions, all the contextual relationships you never see because the data is buried in application silos. You know there's value in there, but there's no good way to access or understand it across applications. Now, merely aggregating this data is not enough; to make it truly useful, you must also understand its context. In the digital world, just as in the physical world, most of our actions...

Directory Services in the Cloud

Felix Gaehtgens, Axiomatics • Dave Kearns, KuppingerCole • Steve Shoaff, UnboundID

Today there is a lot of debate about where to store, and how to access identities in a cloud based environment. Directory Services are the original identity management data store for all enterprise applications. In fact, it can be argued that Directory Services function as a private cloud for internal applications. As more companies move to the cloud, next generation Directory Services are necessary to bridge the divide between on-premise and cloud based applications.