Apere's IMAG 500 a tough sell  Brad Causey, Contributing Writer
Category: ID management Product: IMAG 500 Vendor: Apere Price:
$15,000 for a single device  Apere's IMAG 500 appliance aims to
simplify the complex maze of identity management through the
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to View  identity stores, consolidation, reconciliation and
provisioning of all user accounts, and access to practically all
network resources through a single control point.  It's an
attractive proposition, but we found the implementation rough
going.  Configuration/Management: D Setup was difficult,
ultimately requiring the company's technical support to remotely
access the device to assist with the configuration process.
Although Apere claims that the device can learn the location and
type of applications, each application required manual
configuration.  Basic device configuration is like any other
appliance: You set up DNS servers, email servers, log servers
and VLANs.  Things got sticky when