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In this post, that follows the first of the series, we will go through the installation of Velo server and all its pre-requirements. It’s important to note that all the instructions reported here should be replicated only for testing purposes and not in production environments. The main aim is to evaluate the identity management features of the software and not to show how the software should be installed, configured, and used in real use cases. Aspects as software optimizations, hardening and so on are out of topic. [read more...]

Since I’ve noticed a lot of interest around open source IAM projects, I thought that an “Open source LAB” blog series could be useful to provide some information gathered during my practical investigations, in the hope to be helpful for corporations deploying their open source identity management solution.

The first projects I would like to evaluate is Velo developed by Safehaus.org. Velo is an open source user provisioning software that helps company by automating many administrative tasks associated with user account setup and maintenance and it seems to be one of the most promising IAM suites available.

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Some days ago I was wondering why among the enterprise level Identity and Access Management (IAM) infrastructures, I’ve never seen an open source solution.

The main driver of my curiosity was the following question: Why small and medium size companies spend a lot of money to pay very expensive licenses for products offering features that they will never use? Why companies which require only few simple identity provisioning and access control tasks don’t use open source solutions?

Then, I started a brief research on one of the most publicized open source identity management project: SUN Identity Management Community Project.

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Some days ago I was wondering why among the enterprise level Identity and Access Management (IAM) infrastructures, I’ve never seen an open source solution.
Sun claims “to open sourcing all of its identity management software products by early 2011″ but in the meanwhile, is there any complete, enterprise level, open source identity & access management suite?
If not, is there any set of open source components that can be combined together to build a complete IAM suite?

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