Monthly Archives: November 2011

Rick Bennett, the CIO at our customer T.D. Williamson (TDW), spoke at Gartner’s Identity & Access Management Summit earlier this month in San Diego. The companies attending tended to be larger Global 2000 organizations with cloud adoption  at various stages … Continue reading →

No turkey related cloud news last week (though we did spend some time during the holiday turning the Google turkey into a pirate), so we turn to two other interesting stories: cloud SaaS momentum and a roundup of the weakest … Continue reading →

In the past couple of months, cloud computing has come to be lauded as a driver for U.S. jobs and economic growth. This past week, however, put the momentum of cloud adoption into a new, broader scale. In the news … Continue reading →

In these tough economic times, companies are doing everything they can to tighten their belts and spend smarter. The fact is that businesses spend a lot more on the smaller items — hotel rooms, the office cleaning service, catered lunches, … Continue reading →

After last week’s security breach to the Steam gaming network, the public versus private cloud debate was once again brought to the forefront. Earlier this year debacles like Sony’s data breach and Research In Motion’s (RIM) outage were used as … Continue reading →

It’s happened – again. A major gaming network has been hacked, compromising millions of users’ information. Last night, Steam – Valve’s online gaming service – announced that its database had been breached. The database included coded passwords, billing information and encrypted … Continue reading →

The holiday season’s upon us, which means travel’s top of mind for consumers and businesses alike. It’s a stressful enough time – and that’s without the added nuisance of managing business travel itineraries manually. Enter Egencia, a subsidiary of Expedia, … Continue reading →

This week we’d like to share three recent news stories that bring cloud computing out of the buzzword bubble and into real-world context, including cloud technology’s broad environmental and economic implications. Why the Cloud Will Bring the App Store Revolution … Continue reading →

One aspect of cloud computing that we don’t always talk about on this blog is the cloud’s huge environmental benefit. This week we’d like to highlight DocuSign – a member of the Okta Cloud Application Network that is, literally, saving … Continue reading →

Recently, the Okta team traveled to Vegas for Workday’s three-day user conference, Workday Rising. It was a great show where we had the opportunity to highlight a lot of the joint engineering work we have been doing with Workday,  and … Continue reading →