Video: The industry as a whole is struggling with identity management and the ways it meets SOA in the enterprise are no exception. “There are established ways of access management for humans,” Eric Knorr points out. The same is not so true for services, though. While many companies are still investigating the opportunities, “there are those who are full-scale addressing identity issues with their SOA deployments, particularly with regulatory compliance or for dealing with financial transactions,” says Pete Yao of Accenture. On the risks that SOA adds, Rich Sharples of Sun Microsystems explains that “there are often competing standards, so it’s really important to chose and choose well … There are major benefits of taking strategic view of identity management and SOA, acting locally, taking up small pieces at a time.” Watch it here. Sustainable IT: SMBs, just like their enterprise counterparts, can benefit from green IT practices. A number of these smaller companies cite energy as the biggest cost increase over the last two years, at least according to IBM. So, poses Ted Samson, “what’s a well-intentioned CEO of an SMB to do to cut those energy bills?” Six green strategies for the little guy. That list begins with, yes, you guessed it, virtualization. Next up: manage PC power better, invest in greener systems and well, I’ll not spoil the ending. Columnist’s corner: The city of San Francisco is suing a voting machine company for breach of contract after chaos that saw the Secretary of State insist on all ballots being counted by hand. “What’s scariest is listening to the politicians on the radio talking about the technology. They wouldn’t know a hard token if it fell out of the sky onto their head. They probably think ‘authentication’ means finding out whether someone has had plastic surgery or Botox,” David Margulius writes in Wanted: Some nice German voting software. That’s German as in software maker SAP. “If they can make Corporate America’s core transactional systems run like a well-oiled machine, surely they could make this problem go away in a jiffy.” Technology Industry