Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), announced that its Identity Access Management (IAM) Solution IDAM-in-a-Rack has been honored with the 'Best Innovation Award in Identity Access Management Category' by the analyst group KuppingerCole at the European Identity Conference 2010 recently in Munich.

Winners were selected from 15 projects and initiatives identified over the course of the last twelve months. The solution's architecture, past implementations, revenue growth and profitability were considered as strong positives for the award. 'IDAM-in-a-Rack' has been built by the Wipro Enterprise Security Solutions (ESS) team gleaned from its experience in successful IAM implementations for various global customers over the years. It is an innovative solution that is developed on top of market leading Identity Management products that help customer to reduce the pain and risk of IDM deployment with respect to accuracy, timelines and costs. The solution comes bundled with all required hardware, software, pre-built with Wipro's Rapid Application Integration Framework (RAIF) Frameworks allowing for faster realization of ROI for customers.

This is the second award the solution is receiving this year which is a testament to the fact that Wipro's Identity management Solution is ahead of the curve when it comes to the best-of-the-breed solution in Identity Management category today.

Today at the GlueCon Conference, UnboundID Corp., a developer of identity management software for Internet-driven, consumer-facing architectures, today announced the release of Version 2.2 of its Directory Services platform, which includes the UnboundID Directory Server, the UnboundID Directory Proxy Server, the UnboundID Synchronization Server, as well as the industry's only updated and maintained LDAP software development toolkit - the UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java. The new platform enables customer-centric identity architectures and provides enhancements designed to support cloud computing and subscriber-based services, including large-scale business-to-consumer applications.

The UnboundID Directory Services Platform is designed to run database-like functions with the performance and speed of a traditional directory. New features that help support these capabilities include:

• LDAP Join
• Rate Limiting
• Replication Traffic Compression

UnboundID develops a new class of identity management applications designed to process billions of entries and transactions to support the demands of today's multi-channel applications, such as cloud-based systems, texting and smart phone applications.

Novell today rolled out a comprehensive approach to identity management that scales from on-premise deployments through public cloud computing deployments.

According to Nick Nikols, Novell vice president of product management, Identity Manager 4 is the only identity management offering capable of supporting such scale because the underlying policy engine doesn't rely on any hardcoded scripts to attach identity to a service or a specific end user. Instead, Identity Manager 4 makes use of a modular architecture where all the various policy engines are informed of the underlying relationships between all the components.

As identity management represents a major hurdle standing in the way of the evolution of a federated cloud computing model, Novell is hoping to stake out a claim to identity management services in the cloud that need to scale across multiple data centers and cloud computing platforms.

Identity Manager 4, currently in beta and expected to ship in July, will be available in a basic edition that supports most commercial on-premise and software-as-a-service applications, and in an advanced edition that includes more workflow and management capabilities.

Among the promises of open source software is that there is no vendor lock-in. It's a promise that new open source startup ForgeRock is aiming to deliver upon by supporting and extending the OpenSSO open source single sign-on and identity management platform formerly supported by Sun Microsystems. Many former Sun employees have found a home at ForgeRock, including Simon Phipps, who previously served as Sun's chief open source officer. At ForgeRock, Phipps holds the position of chief strategy officer.

ForgeRock's goal is not just to support the OpenSSO platform, but to extend it into a complete access management solution. While ForgeRock and some of its technologies have their roots in Sun, the company doesn't necessarily see Oracle, Sun's new owner, as the primary competitive target. ForgeRock is now taking the OpenSSO open source code and renaming it under its own OpenAM (access management) project name.

BeyondTrust, the leading provider of Privileged Access Lifecycle Management (PALM) solutions, today announced it has joined the Oracle Extended Identity Management Ecosystem program of partner solutions that are integrated with the Oracle framework.

BeyondTrust's flagship products, PowerBroker and PowerKeeper will both become part of the Oracle Identity Management Ecosystem.

• PowerBroker protects the root account used by IT administrators by binding specific tasks to the privileged account, without ever disclosing the root password. PowerBroker offers comprehensive and reliable reporting, including the ability to report on user entitlements, addressing one of today's more pressing issues for enterprise compliance and control.
• PowerKeeper provides the combination of a secured, hardened appliance with the use of only commercially supported FIPS-140 validated encryption components. This provides the best security techniques available for protecting passwords-and the accounts they access-from unauthorized use.