* Who's talking about DNS and virtual directory software?
There are a couple of upcoming events I wanted to tell you about. First, I was drawn to this one by the headline on the press release: “Cricket Liu Seminar on DNS at Gillette Stadium”! What? Was the wizard of DNS doing the half-time show at a Patriots game? Would John Madden be along to explain naming systems to the football crowd? Well, no. But it was a fun vision!
As it turns out, on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at 11 a.m. Liu will be moderating a discussion on “DNS Best Practices for Building Resilient Active Directory Infrastructure” in the “superbox” at Gillette Stadium – a meeting room, but in an interesting venue (and, no, there won’t be a game that day!). Liu is Infoblox’ vice president of architecture and author of “DNS and BIND”, “DNS & BIND Cookbook”, and “DNS On Windows Server 2003.” Few people, if any, know more about DNS.
Coming up even sooner, and available on the Web so those outside of the southeastern New England area can “attend”, is a Webinar on “The Benefits of Virtual Directory Software,” presented by Burton Group Analyst Nick Nikols. This happens next Tuesday, Sept. 13, at 12:30 p.m. EST. You need to register if you want to view it – and you should do that soon. The Webinar is sponsored by Octetstring.
And speaking of virtual directories, I recently came across an interesting “historical” (at least when thinking in Internet time) document. You should first glance through a recent edition of my NetWare newsletter, in which I concluded that Virtual Directory Services is a good idea, but that it was too bad that it has such a deceptive name. I was surprised then, when I came across some notes from three years ago when I interviewed Novell eDirectory evangelist Justin Taylor. He’d quoted to me an article he’d written: “I have come up with what I call Taylor’s Law of Directories, which states: ‘The value of a directory is measured by the number of relationships it manages and the new applications that result.'” He then went on to say that the relationships help define the applications that can be constructed, and that “the more that’s in the directory, the richer the apps can be. A virtual directory maximizes that richness.” I certainly can’t disagree with that.
