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Email has proven to be the first killer app for cloud computing, and today businesses can choose to rent email as a service from IBM, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Cisco, or numerous smaller vendors. It is the first step in a larger shift in which, over the next decade, much of the computing and data storage [...]

In March I wrote about the integration of identity services with eXpresso. This has proven to be one of the most compelling adjunct services we’ve added to our product – allowing us to offer secure Single Sign-On to our large corporate clients as well as enabling standards based identity federation of user credentials from industry [...]

In all likelihood, eXpresso is not the only software service that you use that requires your identity credentials to authenticate yourself, and we know that it is not always easy to remember yet another username and password. Fortunately, new Single Sign-On solutions exist that make it easy for businesses or individuals to securely access web-based [...]

Killing two birds with one stone is more than a good metaphor, it’s a relief. Recently, I discovered a new online identity service that addresses both personal and business challenges that I face… but hopefully not for much longer.
Like many of you, I personally use several online services daily for things ranging from banking and [...]

Last month Microsoft made a string of announcements about new “software plus services” that they are bringing to market, most notably Azure, Windows 7 and Office Web applications. What struck me was the sheer volume of blogs, discussions and analyses that attempt to decipher Microsoft’s announcements and explain how the pieces could possibly fit together [...]

Last Friday while most of the world was closing their work week, eXpresso was ramping up for one of our most significant upgrades to date. And thanks to careful planning and communication, we are happy to report that the upgrade went exactly according to plan. Here’s a summary of what we accomplished.
Infrastructure – This [...]

Wikipedia defines the word hybrid as, “The combination of two or more different entities or things, aimed at achieving a particular objective or goal.” For a long time hybrids were almost exclusively the domain of biologists, but today, professionals on the PGA tour use hybrid golf clubs and just about everybody who works at Google [...]