Radiant Logic Unveils First Ever Virtualization Suite At The European Identity Conference

CEO Michel Prompt Keynotes Identity Management, Authentication, & Virtual Directory Panels

Radiant Logic Unveils First Ever Virtualization Suite At The European Identity Conference

Radiant Logic, the market leader for virtual directory solutions, is showcasing its new product line at the European Identity Conference this week. This major rollout of three products is built on its RadiantOne Identity & Context Virtualization Platform: RadiantOne Virtual Directory Server (VDS) Proxy Edition 5.1, RadiantOne Virtual Directory Server (VDS) Context Edition 5.1, RadiantOne Identity and Correlation Server (ICS) 5.2. In conjunction with the RadiantOne VDS rollout, Michel Prompt will be speaking this week at the European Identity Conference in Munich, Germany.

With these releases, Radiant Logic has segmented its flagship RadiantOne Virtual Directory Server (VDS) to better meet the challenge of identity integration in increasingly heterogeneous environments, delivering next-generation innovation and game-changing context management capabilities. This moves directory virtualization beyond simple directory aggregation to a complete data model and context-driven solution for identity integration.

"Radiant Logic has always understood the problem of data integration to be larger than just connecting disparate data sources,” said Todd Clayton, CEO, CoreBlox. “They have the unique ability to use the same core virtual directory technology to solve both complex integration challenges and fast, simple and efficient directory aggregation projects for our enterprise Fortune 1000 customers."

With mergers and acquisitions at the highest rate in decades and IT budgets cut more than 20 percent over the last year, enterprises need to leverage existing systems and legacy applications to support business-driving modern architectures, such as SOA, and the cloud.

“Our experience and best practices have shown us that when it comes to Identity Management and security, context is key. Radiant’s technology unlocks context and semantics out of existing heterogeneous data silos,” said Katarina Kreutzfeldt, Managing Director, KOGIT GmbH.

Within today’s complex, heterogeneous environments, there is increasing demand for secure and scalable ways to integrate siloed data without disruption, costly and brittle hand coding, or massive infrastructure investments.

“Traditionally, virtual directories have been seen as a tactical point solution,” said Michel Prompt, founder and CEO of Radiant Logic. “By adding the Context Edition to our flagship VDS product, we’re now providing a complete strategic solution for your entire enterprise infrastructure. Different environments and initiatives demand different tools. RadiantOne now delivers secure identity integration and context management at every level, scaling up with you as your needs evolve.”

Since 2002, Radiant Logic has helped customers worldwide with secure identity integration based on virtualization that doesn’t disrupt underlying architectures. With its latest release, RadiantOne provides a flexible infrastructure that supports large and highly disparate environments, such as those found in SaaS or cloud-based initiatives. RadiantOne products share an advanced data modeling and virtualization engine, for seamless integration and a smooth upgrade path. Companies can choose the edition that suits their current needs, at the right price, then scale up easily as future needs require. RadiantOne virtualization is the key to an identity and contextual service in a heterogeneous world—ideal for portals, user-centric deployments, and federation.

RadiantOne Products In Action

VDS Proxy Edition is a classical virtual directory server for lightweight, super-efficient user-directory integration projects. For example, a large auto manufacturer used VDS Proxy Edition to integrate two separate directory infrastructures—Active Directory for internal users, and Sun Directory Server for external applications. This integration of Active Directory and Sun infrastructures was done without disturbing the core AD environment, as this would have created the need for heavy synchronization and increased its Sun licensing fees.

VDS Context Edition is a full-spectrum solution for complete identity and context integration, scalable for high-volume, high complexity environments. For example, a global financial institution needed to provide access for all its users to a central self-service portal with Sybase security. Each independent business unit maintained separate infrastructures and security requirements, making it difficult to integrate a mix of directories, databases, and web services, Using VDS Context Edition, the company integrated all its disparate and distributed security domains into a common virtual namespace, providing consistent and compliant security enforcement.

ICS enables correlation and synchronization of data across disparate identity silos for a unified view of identity data across applications and security domains. For example, a large telecom company had acquired multiple complementary services and was unable to update customer information across all its systems. A simple customer service call meant accessing up to six different applications. ICS provided a single logical view of all users across every platform, application, and business unit, enabling the company to manage its customers from a single access point. Behind the scenes, ICS detected changes to customer accounts and synchronized them to all “user-subscribed” services.

Rollout Availability

• RadiantOne Virtual Directory Server (VDS) Proxy Edition 5.1 is available at the end of April, 2009.
• RadiantOne Virtual Directory Server (VDS) Context Edition 5.1 will be available at the end of May 2009.
• RadiantOne Identity and Correlation Server (ICS) 5.2 will be available summer 2009.

As each product becomes available, press releases and other information will be available on Radiant’s website .

European Identity Conference

The European Identity Conference (EIC) in Munich, Germany is the number one European conference for Identity Management. EIC provides European companies, government agencies, vendors and consultants with a platform for exchanging experiences, news and developments in Identity Management, Compliance, and IT-Governance.

Michel Prompt, CEO of Radiant Logic will be keynoting and participating in the below discussions:

Keynote panel: Identity Management & GRC – a powerful team?
Date: Wednesday, May 6
Time: 5:30pm – 6:00pm CET
Participants: Dr. Martin Dehn, KOGIT; Michel Prompt, Radiant Logic; Dave Kearns, Network World

Panel Discussion: Seeing the Big Picture: Context-Based Authentication
Date: Thursday, May 7th
Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm CET
Participants: Michel Prompt, Radiant Logic; Stefan Dodel, Oracle; Deepak Taneja, Aveksa; Darran Rolls, Sailpoint; Jochen Köhler, Cyber-Ark Software

Panel Discussion: Virtual Directory Services
Date: Thursday, May 7th
Time: 4:30pm – 5:30pm CET
Participants: Michel Prompt, Radiant Logic; Sampo Kellomäki, Symlabs; Wolfgang Schlegel, MODCOMP Consulting AG; Keith Grayson, SAP; Michael Brengs, Optimal IdM; Mark Craig, Sun Microsystems

About Radiant Logic

Radiant Logic, Inc . is the market-leading provider of virtual directory solutions for identity management and enterprise information integration. The RadiantOne Identity and Context Virtualization Platform is being deployed by global enterprises to provide unified, secure access to identity and contextual views built out of heterogeneous applications and data sources. RadiantOne is a key enabler for authentication, authorization, profile, and personalization initiatives.

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