Okta Expands Into Service Catalog Business
Okta (previous CloudAve coverage), the company offering identity and access management service, announced last week that they are expanding into service catalog business. They announced the availability of Okta Application Network, a self service portal that IT can set up to allow employees of an organization easily access different cloud based applications. With this feature, [...]
Why I’m using fake identities to sign up
That is, from now on I will. It is not only getting harder to sign up, it is also getting harder to sign in, and out. Let me explain please as this story has a few sides to it. But first, let me make my point: I’m going to use fake identities to sign up [...]
Video: Cloud In The Eyes Of VCs
From time to time, we post videos from different vendors on their take about cloud marketplace. Below is a video of Okta CEO, Todd McKinnon, talking to two of their VCs Ben Horowitz (from Andreessen Horowitz) and David Weiden (from Khosla Ventures) about their take on where cloud is heading. While we take pride in [...]
VMware Horizon App Manager – A Quick Analysis
Whether you want to call it consumerization of enterprises or democratization of IT, we know that it is happening already and no FUD can stop them anymore. Instead of fighting this process, today’s smart enterprises are embracing them by empowering their users to securely use SaaS and other consumer applications. VMware realized this trend and [...]
Symplified Closes Series B Round As It Gets Ready For The Enterprise Cloud Boom
Image via CrunchBase Symplified, the Boulder based cloud security company, today announced that they have raised a Series B round of $9 Million funding. Symplified offers a comprehensive identity management suite consisting of Access Manager, Identity Manager and Single Sign-On. Also, their SinglePoint PaaS offering is suitable for enterprises to have a virtual identity infrastructure [...]
KnowledgeTree Steps Up Its Enterprise Game
The key criteria for any SaaS provider to unlock the doors of enterprises is security and identity management is one of the focus areas of security. KnowledgeTree, cloud based document management solution provider, today addressed this key requirement by partnering with OneLogin to offer a Single Sign-On functionality. This will help them shift the focus [...]
CloudAudit Joins CSA
CloudAudit, the organization whose goal is to provide a common interface and namespace that allows cloud computing providers to automate the Audit, Assertion, Assessment, and Assurance (A6) of their infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS), and application (SaaS) environments and allow authorized consumers of their services to do likewise via an open, extensible and secure interface and [...]
Novell Announces The General Availability Of Its Cloud Security Service
Novell has been talking about cloud and cloud security for more than a year now and, slowly, we are getting a glimpse of where they are going. After realizing that Cloud has taken off in a big way, Novell has been trying to position themselves as a serious cloud player with a stronger emphasis on security. [...]
Google Apps Shapes Up Nicely In Spite Of Noise Around City Of LA Bungling
The noise surrounding Google App’s City of LA deployment doesn’t appear to be dying down anytime soon. Yesterday, another article highlighting Google’s failure came up on the basis of a leaked email from the City of Los Angeles. The April 13 letter, addressed to L.A.’s information technology and government affairs committee from City Administrative Officer Miguel [...]
What XAuth Means To SaaS
Image via CrunchBase In the weekend, Meebo, along with companies like Google, Yahoo, Myspace, Disqus, Janrain, etc., announced the release of an open identity platform called XAuth. For Meebo, it gives an option to make their Meebo Bar more relevant among the publishers. For Google, this gives them another stick to beat Facebook Connect and [...]
Rhyming History
I must be getting old (er). In my pursuit to have even a beginner’s grasp of what’s going on around this cloud stuff this year, I’ve joined about 300 “groups” (what us old guys used to call “mailing lists”). One of those groups is the A6 working group — spearheaded by Gluecon keynoter Chris Hoff. [...]
Zoho Project Integrates With Google Apps – A Smart Move?
When I wrote about Manymoon few months back in my Living in the Clouds Series, I mentioned Google is not offering a Project Management App along with their Google Apps Office Productivity Suite. Many Google App users were handicapped by the absence of a Project Management app that is integrated with Google Apps. This is [...]
The Demise Of Freeyourid.com And Its Minimal Impact On Customers
Freeyourid.com, the service that offered .name based personalized openID, is shutting doors after almost two years in operation. Last week, they sent out emails to all their customers (including me) about their plans to shut down after August 15th and explaining the customers about their choices. More than the traditional software world, the shutting down [...]
Privacy, Data Ownership and Identity in an Increasingly Social World
Live blogged from the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston From the program – "It’s IM all over again!" as public services such as Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace increasingly cross from consumer into enterprise. As these tools become legitimate business services for marketing and collaboration, IT must determine how to move from blocking to [...]
SyferLock Almost Solves The Password Security Problem
Few months back I was worrying about the readiness of SaaS vendors to protect users from password related attacks, either through phishing or key logging or any of the many different ways in which users’ passwords can be snatched. When thinking about how we use SaaS, I am worried about the risks associated with the [...]
