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Top Ten Servers Almost a year after they debuted, Pentium Pro-based network servers are pushing older models out of the spotlight, claiming Best Buys for both workgroup and enterprise servers. […]

Something old, something new, something Compaq, something Big Blue... but mostly things made by Hewlett-Packard. This month the king of PC laser printers is also the king of PC servers, […]

From the October 1996 Issue of PC World Online (Special Reports) Network servers aren't built to run Windows 95. They are built to let dozens or hundreds of employees get […]

Byline: Dave Kearns The fire is out, the moon is downáThe parting glass is dry and doneáAnd I must go and leave this townáBefore the rising of the sunáAnd long's [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns It was just over 12 years ago I wrote: 'Welcome to the first Directory Services newsletter from Network World,' and today we've reached the penultimate issue. Time [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns A few weeks ago we examined some results from a survey ('Who's stealing your data?') commissioned by SailPoint. This week they've released more results from that effort [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Tom Kemp is the CEO of Centrify, a company which -- at its core -- is about tying other platforms (Unix, Linux Macintosh, etc.) into Active Directory [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Kenneth P. Weiss founded Security Dynamics in 1984, served as CEO until 1986 and remained chairman of the board and CTO until 1996. Under his watch the [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns One of last week's newsletters ('Canada is out front once again') caught the attention of folks at the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns In the past I've warned you about putting too much credence into publications such as Gartner's 'Magic Quadrant' or Forrester's 'Wave.' Not that there's bad research, but [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns In light of the U.S. government's NSTIC (National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace), which may or may not become a victim of the U.S. Congress' budget-cutting [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns I hadn't spoken to Andrew Ferguson (he's director, group marketing and global channel, for Australia's eB2Bcom, which he co-founded in '96) since last year's European ID Conference [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Canada's University of British Columbia is a large, multi-campus institution. There are two major campuses: Vancouver, located at the western tip of the Point Grey Peninsula, close [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Longtime readers will remember Sara Gates from frequent appearances in this newsletter. Sara was director of product marketing for Waveset Technologies, becoming vice president of identity management [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns There were a couple of announcements made at last month's Catalyst conference that I meant to draw to your attention but other things got in the way. [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Frequently I read about or hear about a new product, service or application and say to myself (or, sometimes, to you -- see 'SCIMing the provisioning landscape'), [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns It looks like the other shoe has dropped in the RSA (the security division of EMC) data breach fiasco (see 'RSA risk mitigation' and 'Accentuate the positive, [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Before leaving this year's European Identity Conference and moving on, there's some 'Identity musical chairs' to catch up on. I did mention a few weeks ago that [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns I never thought I'd see the day when an XML standard was relegated to the trash heap as outdated. But that's exactly what appears to be happening [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns One thing hasn't changed much in the 10-plus years I've been writing this newsletter -- I still enjoy a good rant from time to time. In April [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns The United States Department of Commerce recently announced the final release of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). While there was some discussion in [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Last issue we talked about the recent survey of IT managers concerning risk management in their enterprises conducted for Courion. Today we'll look at another recent survey [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns It's time, I think, to catch up on some industry news that's happened over the past few weeks. Hitachi ID, formerly M-Tech Systems of Calgary, recently released [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns It's time, once again, to look back 10 years and to see what was important in the identity arena in March 2001. Most of the month was [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Unless you've been in a coma the past week you're aware that some sort of security breach occurred at RSA (or, more correctly, 'RSA, the security division [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Last issue I quoted two industry visionaries, Courion's Chris Zannetos and Netmesh's Johannes Ernst, on the troubles within the identity world -- both the enterprise side and [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns So far it hasn't been a great year for identity and those in the business of identity. Chris Zannetos, for example (he's the CEO of Courion, in [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns I seem to have gotten out of the habit of telling you about upcoming events in the IdM/IAM arena, although you can always find them at the [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns When you spend a significant amount of time (in my case more than 15 years) enmeshed in a particular topic (e.g., identity management) some discussions (you might [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns There's been a lot of back-and-forth about the demise of Microsoft's Cardspace in the blogosphere. You could search it all down, but the best bet would be [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Back in the Vietnam War era a popular slogan was 'Suppose they gave a war and no one came?' Well, suppose they created an identity client and [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Some companies like to partner with IdM vendors either on specific projects or for strategic solutions. Some companies like to acquire IdM vendors to either round out [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Most people want to be remembered, but there's a growing group of European politicians and bureaucrats that think you want to be forgotten. (aside)Thanks to Gartner Research [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns I mentioned in the last issue that Symplified had mentioned to me (OK, it was Marc Gendron, their always helpful PR consultant who mentioned it) that identity [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Ireland's Research and Markets issued a report last month ('Business and Technology Issues in IAM') with this premise: The extended enterprise needs a comprehensive identity layer. I [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns We often bemoan the seeming immortality of username/password authentication schemes. Why can't everyone implement strong authentication, multifactor authentication, Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Networks (SSL VPN) for [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns When I look back to what was in the newsletter 10 years ago, as I do once a month, I frequently feel that I've been dropped into [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns In what should come as no surprise to most of you, a Forrester study from December concluded that '... most companies continue to rely on the traditional [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Back in June the U.S. government issued a draft of The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. A number of good friends in the so-called user-centric [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns As I write this, the weather forecast for tomorrow is 'cloudy, with a chance of snow.' That same forecast should work for the Identity and Access Management [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns After writing somewhat disparagingly about Forrester's recent paper 'Twelve Recommendations For Your 2011 Security Strategy' ('Watch out for identity management obfuscators'), I heard from their PR chief, [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns At the risk of having to eat my words before the month is up, this should be the last newsletter on predictions (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/010311-five-2010-stories-that-nobody.html) for a while. But [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Today we'll take one more look at some predictions for identity management and identity and access management (IAM) in the coming year. First up, the folks at [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Looking back ten years, as we do once each month, I find it hard to disagree with anything I said in that last newsletter of December, 2000. [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns More predictions this issue, but we head to the great white north (Calgary) for these from Hitachi-ID's CTO, Idan Shoham. Interestingly, Idan hedges his bet with this [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns We're almost to the end of 2010 - how time does fly, especially as we get older. So over the next few weeks we'll gaze into the [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns It's a truism, usually credited to the activities of the French military in the years between World Wars I & II, that generals were always fighting the [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns Monitoring user inactivity, and locking down a computer when the user forgets to, is the Holy Grail of PC security. It's here. The problem with inactivity has [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns More often than not, when I'm writing the monthly 'here's what we were talking about ten years ago' edition of the newsletter I'm tempted to lead with [...]

Byline: Dave Kearns The other shoe finally dropped for Novell last week. In the fifteen years I've been writing about the company from one perspective or another it seemed to [...]