Identity and Community in Human Society

Bob Blakley, Chief Scientist, Security and Privacy, IBM

Length: 45 minutes
This Catalyst Conference 2006 presentation will examine how humans form communities, and how identity and reputation influence the formation of communities and the experience of individuals within those communities. The presentation will focus on the relationships between privacy, secrecy, reputation, reciprocity, accountability, reticence, self-interest, and community interest. The presentation will try to enumerate some necessary and sufficient conditions for the development of a community and the emergence of "safe" transactions within the context of that community.
Finally, the presentation will compare and contrast the way identity and reputation work in the real world and in the current technological infrastructure, and draw some conclusions about useful directions for future technological development.
The presentation won't discuss IBM products or directions, except to note during the last 15 seconds that IBM products are the only things a serious person would consider using for real work.

Download Audio - Identity and Community in Human Society

Download PDF - Identity and Community in Human Society

Open Source in the Enterprise

Richard Monson-Haefel, Senior Analyst, Application Platform Strategies

Length: 40 minutes

This Inflection Point is a presentation from Catalyst Conference 2006. Open source is quickly and fundamentally changing the landscape of the software industry forever, challenging—and in some cases overwhelming—traditional commercial markets. Open source is a phenomenon that cannot be ignored by companies that wish to remain competitive. However, the methods by which open source software is created, distributed, licensed and evaluated are fundamentally different from commercial software. To outsiders, the open source methodologies seem like madness, but when explained, their advantages and pitfalls become more obvious. In this key note presentation, Burton Group Senior Analyst Richard Monson-Haefel sheds light on the open source world and its expanding role in enterprise computing.

Download Open Source in the Enterprise

Internet.Next: What Kind of Internet Do We Want and Need?

Jamie Lewis, CEO and Research Chair, Burton Group; Mike Neuenschwander, VP and Research Director, IdPS; Dave Passmore, Research Director, NTS;Anne Thomas-Manes, VP and Research Director, APS; Dan Blum, Senior VP and Research Director, SRMS.

This Inflection Point is a Catalyst Conference panel discussion with Burton Group Research Directors on the future of the Internet, and how that evolution will affect the enterprise. Questions this presentation and discussion will address include:

What is ‘Net neutrality, what threatens it, and can we preserve it?

How does digital identity and privacy management relate to the Internet in general, and ‘Net neutrality in particular?

Will attempts to apply antiquated regulatory regimes to this new world kill it?

How can we change the Internet security dynamic without stifling innovation?

How will application and storage architectures change as “always on” and mobile connectivity become more common?

How and why will changes to the Internet affect enterprise IT?

Download - Internet Next What Kind of Internet

SPML v2 InterOp : Provisioning Without Custom Connectors

In this Burton Group Inflection Point analyst Mark Diodati discusses the OASIS Services Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) v2 InterOp event that took place on Wednesday, June 14 at Catalyst Conference 2006. The InterOp showcased standards-based provisioning to target applications without custom connectors.

Download SPML v2 InterOp

CATALYST CONFERENCE KEYNOTE: Identity and Privacy Management -- Identity in Context: The Evolving Business and Social Infrastructure

Digital identity is no longer just the purview of enterprise IT environments. As the Internet has taken an increasingly central role in both the social and business aspects of every day life, issues like identity theft, privacy, and security have spilled into the mainstream. Identity management (IdM) is still an important component of enterprise IT infrastructure. But, identity has a larger context, one that enterprises must consider as they implement identity management systems. Burton Group CEO and Research Chair Jamie Lewis will put identity management in context, in terms of the broader enterprise IT strategies IdM enables, the larger social implications of digital identity, and the sociological and technological trends driving identity management systems.

Issues this presentation will cover include:

• The evolution of enterprise IdM services in relation to overall enterprise IT architecture
• A high-level view of “user-centric” digital identity and its implications
• The upside potential and downside risks created when we leverage digital identity systems

Download Catalyst Conference Keynote

Information Findability Trends - part 2

In this Burton Group Inflection Point, principal analyst Mike Gotta discusses trends related to information findability, and the emergence of informal, community-based information classification. In Part 2 of this podcast, Mike discusses organizational issues, information management challenges and process implications of adopting tagging and social bookmarks within the enterprise.

Download Information Findability Trends - part 2

Information Findability Trends - part 1

In this Burton Group Inflection Point, principal analyst Mike Gotta, discusses trends related to information findability, and the emergence of informal, community-based information classification. In Part 1 of this two-part podcast series, Mike discusses market trends around tags, tagging, tag clouds, social bookmark services and folksonomies in terms of strengths and weaknesses and overall technology maturity and vendor dynamics.

Download - Information Findability Trends - part 1