All in all –the bad economy seems to have been good for identity management. It has not only brought the need for efficient identity management processes to the attention of organizations and subsequently boosted sales in identity management products, but has forced vendors to offer alternatives to the often bloated, identity management product delivery model.

"# Information. This is a meeting where attendees are informed about what is happening (with or without their blessing). While there may be a facade of conversation, it's primarily designed to inform.
# Discussion. This is a meeting where the leader actually wants feedback or direction or connections. You can use this meeting to come up with an action plan, or develop a new idea, for example.
# Permission. This is a meeting where the other side is supposed to say yes but has the power to say no."

Most data warehousing/analytic queries are only interested in a couple of columns in one or more tables rather than entire rows of columns. This being the case, storing data in the typical row-based format is inefficient for data warehouse purposes whereas storing data in a column-oriented fashion is much better. In a column-oriented design like Infobright, full table scans will never be performed (unless a query requests all or the majority of rows in a table); only full column scans may be. The end result is much less I/O and improved response times for column-oriented databases.

The freemium model is one where the company offers two (or more) versions of a product. The basic version is free to use. You have to pay for the premium version. The goal of this article is to answer the product management question, “Should you create a freemium business model?”

Anyway, if youre focused on the marketing Ps (choose any four), you're likely not marketing very well, because you're not telling stories.

“And, yay, the call for compliance did ring out across the land. And the vendors of role management software did declare: through us will your access be certified. And the security priests and business kings did see that compliance was good for no longer would a user access resources, each to his own way. Yet, they looked upon those who could access their resources and saw that they were many and different – among them too were consultants and partners. And they inquired of themselves: “Verily, how we will institute access control systems and points of enforcement so that we may trade profitably and remain free from thieves and scoundrels?”

"Novell said it will use the Fortefi assets in its Novell Privileged User Manager, which will be due sometime in the second quarter. "

“Just the rumor of IBM potentially purchasing Sun creates an enormous opportunity, because all of the Sun accounts are very concerned about what will happen” to its proprietary products for server computers, Dell chief executive officer Michael Dell said at a briefing in Tokyo yesterday."

A two-year-old IP battle over network storage systems between two Silicon Valley mainstays–Sun Microsystems and NetApp–could affect merger talks between Sun and the world's top provider of computer products and services, IBM.

"I am interested in hearing about your enterprise experience with these products, including vendor selection. I also want to speak with you if you have a centrally-managed sudo deployment across your enterprise. You will have an opportunity to influence our research, and I’ll share what we have learned about the market, products, and deployments. Please contact me at mdiodati @ burtongroup.com."