Monthly Archives: September 2011

Okta on Stage at BoxWorks

I was thrilled to appear with Box.net CEO & co-founder Aaron Levie yesterday during his keynote at BoxWorks, the company’s user conference. What better place to talk about our vision for a cloud-first world, lead by a new generation of … Continue reading

You Are The Weakest Link. Goodbye.

The Wall Street Journal’s Geoffrey Fowler posted a piece yesterday that caught our eye. I think the title “What’s a Company’s Biggest Security Risk? You” speaks for itself, but the crux is that corporate networks are no longer the big enterprise … Continue reading

Time for Enterprise IT to Embrace B.Y.O.D.

The New York Times’ Verne Kopytoff wrote this week about the proliferation of employees’ personal mobile devices in business and how once-resistant IT departments are starting to embrace the change. Kopytoff is quick to point out that IT departments’ change … Continue reading

Constellation Research Recognizes Innovation in Enterprise Cloud

We’re excited to share that Enterasys, one of our earliest customers, has been named a semifinalist – rather, a Protostar – in Constellation Research’s Inaugural Supernova Awards. Ben Doyle, the director of IT at Enterasys, a global provider of end-to-end enterprise … Continue reading

The Anatomy of a SaaS Reseller

We recently signed up our first official reseller. We partnered with a company named Cloud Sherpas, one of Google’s top resellers. Although we’ve only been working together for a month, the relationship is off to a great start as we’ve been able to train and integrate our sales and support processes and have a healthy pipeline building. Continue reading

What IT Needs to Know to Not Become Irrelevant

The cloud’s upending old world IT, forcing modern departments to rethink how they view themselves and their role within their business — or risk irrelevancy. Here are a few suggestions for how IT can change tack to adapt and regain influence: Continue reading

This Week in the Cloud: The ‘All Cloud’ Vision; Benioff Chimes in on the Public/Private Debate

Now that Dreamforce (and summer) is behind us, it’s back to reality. Here’s a look at some of the week’s cloud stories that caught our eye: Cloud Forcing IT’s Hand ITBusinessEdge’s Mike Vizard recently wrote a telling piece on how … Continue reading

Okta Customer Profile: Amag Pharmaceuticals’ ‘Cloud First’ Approach to IT

Ellen Messmer over at NetworkWorld recently wrote a nice profile of one our customers, Amag Pharmaceuticals, and how they are leveraging the cloud to evolve their IT operations. Nathan McBride, the executive director of IT for AMAG, truly has a … Continue reading

No More ‘Dr. No’: A New Helpful, Empowered IT

The cloud is certainly impacting IT’s role in business, as departments grapple with the influx of cloud applications in the enterprise. In a recent post in CIO, Bernard Golden does a nice job articulating how the cloud is changing IT’s … Continue reading

Talking Cloud with our Investors

I recently sat down with two of Okta’s investors, Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz) and David Weiden (Khosla Ventures), to talk all things cloud: the biggest opportunities they see in the space, what it means for business, what’s next and why … Continue reading