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Provisioning software provides a platform for giving users access to resources based on a set of roles and rules and an audit trail for who has access to what and when.

Identity Manager R3 is the first in a series of software releases that will continue this summer when the company updates its federation software (acquired from Phaos in 2004 and Oblix in 2005), its access-management software (Oblix) and its virtual directory technology (acquired from OctetString in 2005).

Oracle’s short-term goal is to deliver incremental upgrades to the components of its identity-management suite but the ultimate goal is to align all the software under a common architecture. “I’d characterize Oracle as having established communication among these components, but not yet integration and functional rationalization,” says Jonathan Penn, an analyst with Forrester Research. Oracle faces the same chore as many other vendors, which is tying together a collection of software garnered through acquisition into an identity platform with common underpinnings such as a single workflow engine. “Oracle plans to be out front, and their plan is clearly to be a leader in this marketplace,” says Roberta Witty, an analyst with Gartner.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/051506-oracle-security.html?WT.svl=bestoftheweb1

EMC said Kashya’s software will extend EMC’s software portfolio for remote replication across environments consisting of different operating systems, including Windows, Linux and different flavors of Unix.

The Hopkinton, Mass., company, whose software license and maintenance revenue jumped 11 percent to $925 million in the most recent quarter, believes making its software portfolio more granular will help it lure more customers while keeping its current clients.

http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3604826

Check Point’s new VPN-1 UTM product line, sold as a package of software applications or loaded into one box as an appliance, is designed to let a company’s remote locations operate using the UTM approach, while allowing central IT administrators to manage and adjust the systems using the same controls offered in Check Point’s enterprise security products.

“We’re trying to help solve the problem of security sprawl, as customers have all kinds of security applications deployed at different points throughout their operations and this is hurting their ability to manage their defenses consistently and easily,” said Bill Jensen, product marketing manager at Check Point, headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel. “Enterprises have started looking at UTM and want a mixture [of applications] to help manage regional offices, but unless you can find a way to integrate UTM with the best-of-breed software that companies are running in their central security operations, you’re just introducing a new type of management headache,” he said. Jensen said Check Point’s new package allows administrators to conduct the same types of systemwide scans and maintenance work they already perform while pushing out any updates or policy changes to the distributed UTM systems automatically.

VPN-1 UTM includes intrusion prevention and anti-virus applications as well as an SSL [Secure Sockets Layer] VPN, network and Web-applications firewalls, and host-checking capabilities. Check Point said the VPN-1 UTM software package will retail at a starting price of $2,000.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1958282,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

Version 10.1 of SUSE Linux is understood to be an important milestone for Novell as it prepares to release the landmark version 10 of its business-focused SUSE Linux Enterprise (formerly known as the Novell Linux Desktop) operating system later this year.

The company’s president Ron Hovsepian has flagged version 10 of the operating system as mature enough to kickstart enterprise deployments in the next 12 to 18 months.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/New_SUSE_Linux_to_debut_this_week/0,2000061733,39255778,00.htm

“Oracle’s acquisition of Thor was a good move because it had no UP product outside of its own Oracle product suite.

Hasan Rizvi, vice president of Security and Identity Management Products for Oracle, said that the company has seen “good customer momentum” based on its original strategy when it entered the identity management arena by purchasing Oblix. That strategy had three parts: provide a complete suite of best-in-class components, to spare customers who were struggling with integrated individual components; help customers with application integration as they struggle to integrate identity management components with business applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft HR and Siebel CRM; and to allow heterogeneous support and standards support in order to facilitate identity management technology deployment.

Oracle plans to announce four new Identity Manager customers on May 9: storage vendor Network Appliance; Gevity, a human resources outsourcing firm; Highmark, an insurance company; and Seguro Popular, a government agency in Mexico.

http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=177631,00.asp

“Put it this way: we are a vendor with $1.6bn in cash and assets, and we hope to spend some of that on acquisitions.”

http://www.computing.co.uk/crn/news/2155497/novell-makes-moves-bolster