More Proof That Shadow IT is a Growing Issue
When talking with organizations about how the cloud can help them, I’m often told that cloud has no place in their organization and they’re not using it in any way, shape or form. They also point to the perceived security risks that cloud brings as their #1 reason for not using any flavor of cloud. [...]
OneLogin Launches Cross-Application Search
The announcement by Salesforce a few weeks ago that it was moving into the enterprise Single Sign on (SSO) space was both an excellent validation that sso across cloud and on-premise applications is needed, but also a rude awakening to the existing independent SSO vendors like OneLogin and Okta. While
Arbitrary censorship and unevenly applied rules at Facebook and Smugmug
When Facebook logged me out everywhere, including social networks like Klout, Kred, Empire Avenue, and Facebook feeds into other systems, the amount of hysteria caused by automated connections, and the Facebook SSO sign on multiple sites failed
A OneLogin Update
I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months identifying some underlying themes within the cloud space, and some corresponding big opportunities which dropout of those themes. One bucket of opportunities that I’m excited about is services that straddle a number of different IT resources – this could be heterogeneous infrastructure management, application [...]
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, [...]
OKTA Builds Native MFA SSO Offering
I’ve written a bunch in the past about how single sign on is growing in importance as organizations and the individuals inside them struggle to manage the wealth of different applications they interface with. One of the tools that is able to manage this difficult is Single SIgn On (SSO).
Okta and Cloud Sherpas Partner to Accelerate GAPE Enterprise Adoption
Identity management is one of the big challenges to be faced in easing the adoption of cloud within enterprise. Okta (more on them here) and Cloud Sherpas (more on them here) have announced a partnership that is squarely aimed at easing the barriers of entry into enterprise for Google Apps. It’s quite a simple deal, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Don’t Make Me Think – A User Centric Perspective on Google Apps
I was sitting down for a pleasant morning coffee with the boys from WaveAdept, a New Zealand based company that, among other things, is a reseller for Google apps. Our discussion got on to the barriers to adoption for Google apps and specifically what can be done to increase uptake among small businesses. It’s an [...]
LTech – Holding Hands in the Move to SaaS
LTech is a company that has a long partnership with Google – originally they were a systems integrator helping organizations deploy Google search appliances. They now focus more on easing the deployment of Google apps into enterprise customers – they’ve been a Google Enterprise Partners since the program was launched. There 20 staff have helped [...]
