Vittorio Bertocci, Microsoft, USA
Vittorio Bertocci, senior architect evangelist, Cloud Services Evangelism, Microsoft Corp., helps large enterprises leverage new technologies. After a few years in the Italian Microsoft Services, he moved to the U.S. headquarters, where he has spent the past three years helping customers deploy solutions based on identity and access management, SOA, and services. He currently focuses on the identity and access aspects of cloud computing; Understanding Windows Cardspace, the book on user-centered identity he coauthored, was published last January. Vittorio maintains a popular blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci
Identity & Cloud Services
The shift towards cloud computing is one of the major trends in today's IT industry. As resources and assets are increasingly hosted off-premise, traditional strategies for access control and identity management are proving incapable of handling distributed scenarios and cross-boundary communication. This presentation briefly outlines how architectures relying on claims-based identity management, security tokens and open standards can address cloud computing scenarios with the same ease with which they can handle traditional ones. |
