Author Archives: Ryan Carlson

Appirio is a 100 percent cloud-based company offering consulting services to businesses looking to adopt and manage cloud technologies. During a recent interview with Okta, Glenn Weinstein, Appirio’s Chief Technology Officer, discussed how his technical team partnered up with Okta … Continue reading →

Jeff Sutton, enterprise IT manager at Box, recently sat down with us to discuss all things Okta — from what first drove Box to looking for an identity management solution to his experience with customer support during implementation. To hear … Continue reading →

ServiceNow provides leading cloud-based services to enterprise IT operations, turning manual, reactive IT organizations into automated, task-oriented ones. With 80 percent of their applications sitting in the cloud, ServiceNow turned to Okta to manage the many identities in those apps. … Continue reading →

RSA can be intimidating for first-time attendees – and this year’s event was no different. Walking the exhibit floor (all 700,000 square feet of it) is nearly a full-day experience on its own. And when you consider the bright oversized logos … Continue reading →

Edmunds.com is the online resource for automotive consumers, enthusiasts and insiders. To keep up with their many users and the rapidly growing list of services and technologies Edmunds’ employees need to do their work, the company brought on a multitude … Continue reading →

Companies deploy identity and access management systems for a variety of reasons, and each of these can be tied directly to a real financial benefit. Whether it’s increasing security (and thereby avoiding costly security breaches or data loss), automating application … Continue reading →

Jack Black may not have had to worry about IT challenges in his 2003 movie “School of Rock,” but the real of School of Rock does. The music program, which encourages its students to rock on stage and in life, … Continue reading →

In enterprise software and services, there’s one thing you can always count on: vendor marketing teams delivering glossy customer case studies. Well, Okta does those too, we can’t lie. But ours are better. The best customer case studies are those … Continue reading →

As companies continue to adopt cloud applications such as Box throughout the enterprise, identity and access management becomes increasingly important. But how can IT allow users to seamlessly access Box with existing network credentials, or provision accounts as employee roles … Continue reading →

At a recent summit, Gartner analysts made strong assertions about cloud-based IAM’s growing predominance, predicting that cloud IAM will grow 500 percent from 2012 to 2015. In addition, they predict that IDaaS will account for 25 percent of all IAM … Continue reading →