Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
BELLEVUE, Wash., November 24, 2009 – Likewise announced today that it will host a free webinar on December 1 that discusses the challenges and benefits of securely authenticating virtual environments with Active Directory – featuring Andras Cser, senior analyst, Forrester Research, Inc. and Manny Vellon, chief technology officer of Likewise.
The advent of virtualization technology has introduced new challenges for secure authentication on networks using Active Directory. The webinar will address how open source software can be used to help reduce costs, increase productivity, and help demonstrate compliance.
Forrester senior analyst, Andras Cser, advises security IT professionals as a leading expert and author on identity and access management, along with user account provisioning.
Likewise chief technology officer Manny Vellon is a co-founder of the company and has 24 years of software development and investment experience at HP and Microsoft before he started a consulting business to help startups and venture capital companies. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University.
About Likewise
Likewise provides integration and identity management solutions to improve security and operational efficiencies and to help achieve regulatory compliance in mixed networks. Likewise Open lets organizations securely authenticate Linux, Unix and Mac users with Microsoft Active Directory. Likewise Enterprise includes all the core authentication technology that comes with Likewise Open, plus world-class migration, group policy, auditing and reporting modules. More information is available at the company’s Web site, www.likewise.com.
About Glenn Rossman Glenn Rossman has more than 25 years communications experience working at IBM and Hewlett-Packard, along with startup StorageApps, plus agencies Hill & Knowlton and G&A Communications. His experience includes media relations, industry and financial analyst relations, executive communications, intranet and employee communications, as well as producing sales collateral. In technology, his career includes work in channel partner communications, data storage technologies, server computers, software, PC and UNIX computers, along with specific industry initiatives such as manufacturing, medical, and finance.
Before his latest stint in technology, Glenn did business-to-business public relations on behalf of the DuPont Company for its specialty polymers products and with the largest steel companies in North America in an initiative focused on automakers.
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