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Five big themes driving enterprise data and app development in 2015

Five big themes driving enterprise data and app development in 2015

By Quinton Wall on January 19, 2015

f you read most of the prediction articles for 2015, it’s pretty clear that the conventional thought is that enterprise IT will continue to grow more collaborative with organizational phenomena such as DevOps becoming more common, that mobile computing will continue its ascent, and of course cloud computing will continue to augment and in some […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2015 theme, big data, cloud, Enterprise, identity, mobile | 1 Response

CUL8R Active Directory

CUL8R Active Directory

By David Meyer on November 10, 2014

The 1200 baud modem was sweet in its day, but now we have broadband. The fax machine and beeper transformed businesses, but now we have smart phones, messaging apps, and near field technology. And while Active Directory is still used by 95 percent of the Fortune 500 today, with the rise of the cloud, it […]

Posted in Technology, Your POV | Tagged active directory, ADFS, cloud, CUL8R, google apps, identity, onelogin

Okta Expands Into Service Catalog Business

Okta Expands Into Service Catalog Business

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 19, 2011

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, […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged briefs, iam, identity, Identity Management, okta, service catalog, single sign on, single signon | 1 Response

Why I'm using fake identities to sign up

Why I’m using fake identities to sign up

By Martijn Linssen on November 1, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Data quality, facebook, google, identity, Klout, knowledge, management, privacy, social media, standardisation, twitter | 1 Response

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Video: Cloud In The Eyes Of VCs

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 2, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud computing, cloud security, identity, okta, Security, VC, video | 1 Response

VMware Horizon App Manager - A Quick Analysis

VMware Horizon App Manager – A Quick Analysis

By Krishnan Subramanian on May 17, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged authentication, Chromebook, cloud applications, google, identity, insights, saas, Security, single sign on, sso, vmware, vmware horizon app manager | 1 Response

Symplified Closes Series B Round As It Gets Ready For The Enterprise Cloud Boom

Symplified Closes Series B Round As It Gets Ready For The Enterprise Cloud Boom

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 5, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Security | Tagged access management, briefs, cloud security, identity, Identity Management, symplified | 1 Response

KnowledgeTree Steps Up Its Enterprise Game

KnowledgeTree Steps Up Its Enterprise Game

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 26, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Application Software, Security | Tagged identity, Identity Management, knowledgetree, onelogin, saas, single sign on, sso | 1 Response

CloudAudit Joins CSA

CloudAudit Joins CSA

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 19, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged Alliance, cloud security, cloudaudit, cloudsecurityalliance, csa, csacloudauditalliance, iaas, identity, paas, saas | 2 Responses

Novell Announces The General Availability Of Its Cloud Security Service

Novell Announces The General Availability Of Its Cloud Security Service

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 25, 2010

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. […]

Posted in Security | Tagged cloud computing, cloud security, Cloud Security Service, Enterprise, iaas, identity, Novell, paas, saas, Security, single signon | 1 Response

Google Apps Shapes Up Nicely In Spite Of Noise Around City Of LA Bungling

Google Apps Shapes Up Nicely In Spite Of Noise Around City Of LA Bungling

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 29, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged analysis, CA, cloud computing, FISMA, google apps, Government, identity, los angeles, saas, Security | 1 Response

What XAuth Means To SaaS

What XAuth Means To SaaS

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 20, 2010

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 […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged facebook connect, identity, Identity Management, Meebo, oOAuth, openid, saas, single sign on, sso, XAuth | 2 Responses

Rhyming History

Rhyming History

By Guest Authors on February 10, 2010

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. […]

Posted in General | Tagged conferences, gluecon, identity, protocols

Zoho Project Integrates With Google Apps - A Smart Move?

Zoho Project Integrates With Google Apps – A Smart Move?

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 20, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged google apps, identity, integration, oauth, saas, zoho

The Demise Of Freeyourid.com And Its Minimal Impact On Customers

The Demise Of Freeyourid.com And Its Minimal Impact On Customers

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 28, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged freeyourid.com, identity, openid, saas | 1 Response

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