Earl Perkins

My colleagues and I just returned from our 4th annual IAM Summit in San Diego last week. It’s hard to believe that it has already been 4 years since the summit was established. It is summits like these that allow us more concentrated “face-time” during these few days with clients and vendors than a good portion of the [...]

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As an analyst, I’ve taken a lot of telephone and face-to-face inquiries about what we think will happen when the acquisition of Sun by Oracle is completed (or if it is completed– but that is another blog). We wrote a couple of research notes on the topic and more are in the works that look [...]

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Many Gartner analysts (including myself) just returned from our U.S. Symposium event in Orlando, Florida this week. As this was my first Symposium as a Gartner analyst, it was both a new experience and an old one. It was new in the sense of scale and audience type, it was old in the sense that [...]

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I recently completed some interactions with clients who asked the same particular question regarding identity & access management. In one form or another, it can be paraphrased as “are there any business justifications for IAM that we can use as a starting point for developing our own?” Related questions centered around drivers and benefits, communicating the [...]

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This November, Gartner will meet many of its clients and others at the annual N. American Identity & Access Management Summit, this time in San Diego, California. As usual, there are discussions on a number of different IAM topics, and this time is no different. I’d like to talk briefly about one or two of the [...]

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It seems that keeping a blog current requires focus and discipline, areas in which I am clearly deficient– my apologies for the lengthy time between entries. It would be better to make excuses, but I won’t do so, since this is important.
Our upcoming IAM Summit in San Diego in November gives rise to reflection on [...]

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Hello again, and apologies for taking so long between posts. It can be fun to be released from the strict structural rules of research writing and roam, so I should be writing more of these posts, not less.
I was looking forward to doing some alliterative but also (I hope) meaningful observations about IAM, a challenging [...]

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I’d like to introduce myself to the readers of the Gartner IAM Blog. I am Ray Wagner, the Managing Vice President for the Secure Business Enablement team at Gartner.
 
Co-Chair Gregg Kreizman and I have just finished putting the final touches on the agenda for the fourth Gartner US Identity and Access Management Summit, to be [...]

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I thought a bit before writing this, but felt it was necessary to say some of these things due to the increase in inquiries about communicating the value of identity and access management. I suspect the increase is due to IAM moving more into mainstream adoption by mainstream customers rather than ‘pioneers’ that don’t often [...]

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Please accept my apologies for the long absence here on the IAM blog. I have been away for a while.
I’d like to address a specific, frequent question that many Gartner clients ask us. It’s also a question that is asked often by the press as well.
“When are you going to publish an IAM (identity and [...]

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