Burton Group Cloud SSO Interop Event
Contents
Background
Burton Group is hosting a federation interoperability event during its Catalyst conference this July in San Diego. Catalyst has been the host of many federation interoperability events in the past, including the first SAML 1.0 interop and the first multi-protocol interop demonstration. This year, we will focus on SaaS or cloud-based applications as the trend of utilizing off-premise applications continues to be a very hot topic for enterprises. The combination of off-premise and on-premise applications strains the management of access for these applications as well as the usability for those that are prompted for another userID and password for each SaaS application.
A big THANK YOU to OSIS and Pamela Dingle for sharing their wiki!
Objective
This interop will demonstrate how SAML and other federation protocols can address single sign-on scenarios for applications, regardless of if they are on-premise or hosted in the cloud. The basic scenario is depicted in the graphic below where users will authenticate at an Identity Provider site and gain access to participating SaaS or other off-premise hosted sites. Additional advanced scenarios are under development and will be posted here in the near future.
Logistics for On Premise Participants
Date: Monday-Wednesday July 27-29, 2009
Testing room: Aqua 313, room open starting at 10am on Monday
Demo room: Aqua 308, Hilton San Diego Bayfront
Time: Demo room (Aqua 308) opens at 8am on Wed. Demo will take place 6-9:30pm on July 29!
Building Access: You must have a valid conference pass, see registration details for instructions.
In case of problems: Call Gerry Gebel at +1 801 556 9994.
Shipping Information to Hotel
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
One Park Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92101
Attn: Catalyst Conference/GUEST NAME
There is a cost for moving packages. Handling fee: 11-21 lbs is $12 22-41 lbs is $25 (weight range that the monitors should be) When they check-in there will be a message on their hotel phone informing them that they have a package. They can ask about it at check-in as well. They'll likely need to go to the UPS store (onsite) to collect the package.
UPS Store contact:
Alyssa Kehrig
Store Manager
The UPS Store 6100
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
1 Park Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92101
Ph: 619-321-4201
Fx: 619-564-3344
Interop Details
- Participants
- Identity Provider and Relying Party Solutions
- Tests
- bginteropcatalyst09@googlegroups.com mailing list -- Interoperability Discussions and Meeting Minutes
Conference Registration Information
You must be registered and have a conference badge so you can access testing and demo rooms at the hotel. Here are your options:
Free registration - Hospitality Suite Staff (This is for folks that are exclusively assigned to be in the interop room and won't be attending the conference).
- No conference meals
- No sessions
- Code: ssonmuil
$995 Upgrade registration - Full Catalyst Conference Attendee
- Conference Meals
- Attend general sessions
- Regular price: Client: $1995/ Non-client: $2495
- Code: Interop
$1295 Friend registration - give the code to as many people as you would like
- Full general session attendee
- Code: InteropFriend
To register go to this site: https://burtongroup.wingateweb.com/us09/portal/newreg.ww and follow the instructions.
Register now for a hotel room - before the hotel sells out.
- The hotel is sold out other than the Burton Group room block
Hilton San Diego Bayfront $199/night
- Go here: http://www.catalyst.burtongroup.com/Na09/TravelHotel.html for more information on travel and lodging
If you have any issues/questions about registration, contact Matt Roblyer <mroblyer@burtongroup.com>
PR and Marketing Information
Burton Group PR coordinator: Collin Searle, csearle@burtongroup.com
Tag for blogs, twitter, etc: Catalyst09
Press representatives and bloggers (* denotes they are registered for the conference)
| Name | Outlet |
|---|---|
| John Fontana * | Network World |
| Dave Kearns * | Network World |
| Christina Torode * | TechTarget |
| Erika Chickowski * | Baseline/CIO |
| Tessa Parmenter * | SearchNetworking |
| Ralitza Stoeva * | IDG |
| Maurizio Benazzo * | Netineti Films |
| Silona Bonewald * | Persona Prime |
| Michael Domingo * | 1105 Media |
| Pamela Dingle * | Eternaloptimist.com |
| Heather Green | Business Week |
| David Carr | independent |
| Matt Hamblen | Computerworld |
| Bob Rawson | Computerworld |
| Bill Brenner | CSO |
| Kelly Higgins | Dark Reading |
| Robert McMillan | IDG News Service |
| Michael Mimoso | Information Security |
| Mary Stevens | InformationWeek |
| Galen Gruman | InfoWorld |
| David Needle | InternetNews.com |
| Jon Brodkin | Network World |
| John Markoff | New York Times |
| Dan Kaplan | SC Magazine |
| Linda Tucci | SearchCIO.com |
| Robert Westervelt | SearchSecurity.com |
| John Soat | TechWeb |
| Byron Acohido | USA Today |
| Laurianne McLaughlin | CIO |
Articles/press releases mentioning this interop:
http://www.burtongroup.com/AboutUs/newsdetail.aspx?id=27
http://exostar.com/news_resources-1.aspx?id=2002
Sponsorship
Thank you to Ping Identity, TriCipher, Symplified, and CA for their generous contributions!
