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Some 3,800 IT practitioners returned to Denver for the year’s big IT show. The convention center was abuzz with
talk about Twitter, cloud computing, and something new on the internet called ‘the federation.’ Another 1,000 people
followed the premier proceedings online in real time. And 2,600 exhibitor personnel were on hand to tend to the buy-
ing needs of any attendees with shopping lists.
A discussion of our hopes and There is right now an elegant and Is open-source software really
dreams for ‘federated identity’ soon to be coded inter-federation free? Is it like free beer, or more
may sound a lot like the stuff of space. It will emerge one level up like free puppies?
a Ken Burns special for PBS. It’s in the protocol stack from dot- David Swartz
truly a breakthrough in identity com. Federations will not only Assistant VP and CIO
management. work. They’ll scale. American University
Kevin Morooney Thomas Lenggenhager
Vice Provost for Information Technology Project Manager During a hostile financial
Pennsylvania State University SWITCH environment, revisit business
practices.
With virtualization, hardware failures are no longer
Jackson Ratcliffe
a disaster.
H. David Lambert
Executive Director,
Vice President for Information Services and CIO
Information Technology
Georgetown University Dominican University of California
What happened?
Who was there?
What did they say?
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