On-line and moving forward

Well, it appears that I’m up and going again. Sorry for the protracted pause between my last post and this one. A tragedy involving a family member and cancer first derailed my blogging and then, as those of you who blog know, it is all too easy to forget to write and post.

My efforts around identity and innovation have increased this past year and will be the subject of many of my musings in the future. A part of those efforts have been participating in the development of a white paper concerning an Identity Fabric (Identity Fabric — then click on Learn More at the bottom). I believe that identity must be as pervasive as what we call “the network fabric” if the Internet and networks of the future are to be effective. Our everyday interactions with networks and network-societies are becoming more complex than the average user can manage. And we, as an industry, must provide mechanisms to manage and secure identity and privacy in a way that is understandable and usable. I’m sure that many of you are your neighborhood and family “tech support” and have first hand experience in what I’m talking about.

The future is awesomely exciting to me. Multi-core, consumer computing devices are redefining the concept of the computing platform. Memory and memory address space along with the increases in disk density and rotational speed are providing us with new ways of conceptualizing storage. And, the current movement from 1 gigabit to 10 gigabit (and beyond) network fabrics is allowing new uses for the network (including the Internet). All of this suggests an exciting future — and I want to be a part of it.

More later . . .