Okta Application Network – Addressing the Connector Problem One of the key challenges for IT in the identity management space has been dealing with what is known as the “connecter problem”. Basically, IT has always been challenged with managing the … Continue reading
Earlier this week on the Okta blog we talked about how the cloud is molding a new kind of CIO and IT leadership team. With greater cloud standardization and adoption processes across the enterprise, IT must empower employees through well-managed … Continue reading
Joe McKendrick, writing for Forbes, offered an interesting take on how CIOs and their IT departments, at least those who embrace the change the cloud has brought to IT, directly benefit from cloud adoption. McKendrick writes: But rather than replace … Continue reading
Last week, Ars Technica’s Sean Gallagher wrote about a legislative roadblock to greater cloud adoption: The USA PATRIOT Act. In his article, Sean Gallagher outlines how the PATRIOT Act has become a limiting factor for American SaaS companies looking to … Continue reading
Another big week in cloud news, but the story this time around is how cloud apps are having a huge impact on the enterprise – including the devices they use and the benefits they see – and how that’s changing … Continue reading
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
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