WSO2 launches Cloud Identity service

Today we announced our second cloud service: Cloud Identity. See: http://wso2.com/cloud/services/identity and you can use it right now at http://identity.cloud.wso2.com/.

(We have a principle of not announcing vaporware!)

This is basically our WSO2 Identity Server product converted into a multi-tenant identity management system and hosted on Amazon EC2 for scalable and reliable deployment. Basically, within about 5 minutes you can register your domain, add your users and then have your own OpenID, Cardspace, SAML 2.0, WS-Trust STS for authentication and XACML and (very soon) OAuth for authorization. Translated to English, that means you can get  a single place to manage your users and give them access to Drupal, Liferay, Google Apps and a whole lot more. We will soon be adding LDAP to this list as well, which means you can even tie Windows, Unix login to it as well as other services like SVN.

Nothing like giving it a try to see how it works!

[UPDATE] Here are some additional references for you to get started with:

• Blog by Prabath Siriwardena (lead and god of all things security in WSO2) on getting started with this puppy: http://blog.facilelogin.com/2010/02/getting-started-with-wso2-cloud.html
• A second blog by Prabath on how to hook it up to issue OpenIDs under your domain using WSO2 Cloud Identity: http://blog.facilelogin.com/2010/02/openids-under-your-domain-for-your.html
• Article by Dimuthu Leelaratne (technical lead in our security team) on how to manage users in your organization using this: http://wso2.org/library/articles/idaas-managing-users
• Article by Thilina Mahesh (software engineer in our security team) on how to hook up Google Apps to authenticate using this: http://wso2.org/library/articles/integrate-google-apps-wso2-cloud-identity

Happy identitying!

Future in Paradise – A Rant and A Rave

Shahani (my wife) is blogging! She has started with a great piece on what’s going on in Sri Lanka.

The myth of rogue states

The February 8th issue of the Newsweek (International) magazine has an absolutely great article titled “End of the Rogue”. The article is about how the concept of a “rogue state” (apparently created the cold war days) is no longer valid and how the US needs to get past it.

Not surprisingly many comments on the online edition don’t agree that the US approach needs to change. Living in Sri Lanka, however, and having observed the wrath of the US (and UK and EU) for the way the anti-LTTE war was conducted and ended, I can see what must be going on in “rogue” countries!

The most interesting quote I found in the article is this:

We don’t have the right to think other people should think like us.

If we all could live by that the entire world would be a better place!

WSO2 platform overview

We recently posted a slide deck that gives an updated overview of the WSO2 platform. This covers both our downloadable products as well as our cloud offerings. Enjoy!

2010 Q1 WSO2 Technical Update

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