While working with our customers, we are regularly surprised to find so little continuity in the way that many organizations handle their data integration.

Those of us that work in the Identity and Access Management space, recognize that there are going to be significant changes in the IAM arena over the next few years. One particular change will be the movement of Identity related services to the cloud thus lowering the entry cost for such services to both smaller and budget/resource challenged organizations.

At Identity Automation, we’re passionate about security and have the opportunity to work with our customers on such issues each and every day.

As technology evolves we are finding that the methods for application delivery are also evolving. While there are a number of varying technologies such as application streaming and terminal services, the most exciting is the movement of applications into the cloud. Moving applications and services to the cloud allows them to be consumed via a browser which completely changes the landscape in terms of end-user platform requirements, licensing management and so much more.

Back in March I gave Five Reason Why You Need An IDM Solution. We regularly talk with customers that would like to implement some sort of Identity Management (IDM) or Data Integration (DI) solution but are challenged with implementation costs, licensing costs, skills capability for infrastructure management and skills capability to manage and maintain the “drivers” that facilitate the movement of data between systems.

Businesses around the world are increasing performance, reliability and agility by deploying Linux into their datacenters. These deployments carry a variety of workloads such as Web and network services as well as mission-critical applications and databases.

In today’s highly regulated enterprise, the importance of ensuring and maintaining compliance to mandated requirements is well understood. Failure to abide by these requirements can be very costly in terms of fines and in securing the technology resources needed to resolve the issues. In some extreme cases failure to comply can result in the suspension of business operations while the identified gaps are remediated.

Most of us are intimately familiar with the concept of virtualizing operating systems. In fact, running virtual machines on our desktops has become so ubiquitous that average, non-technical, computer users are even in on the game.

Identity Automation is a huge proponent of open source software and we use a lot of it in our internal operations, in our solutions and in custom consulting work for our customers.