It’s an understatement to say that IT has undergone a number of significant changes in recent years. Still, breaking away from the past and into the present requires leaving certain technologies of the past, well, in the past. The most … Continue reading
Last week there was an interesting article in the New York Times by Kevin J. O’Brian about the challenges to rolling out the cloud in Europe, and how it is happening despite them. The biggest issue is that data privacy … Continue reading
IBM recently released its second-quarter earnings report, citing impressive gains (Q2 revenues rose 12 percent to $26.7B). While the hardware side of IBM’s business is undoubtedly important, it’s the company’s ability to pivot to emerging market trends, especially the cloud, … Continue reading
Recently ZDNet blogger Phil Wainewright published a post entitled “Safe-deposit box SaaS” comparing the disadvantages shared between private SaaS instances and safe deposit boxes at any bank. While comical in nature, this comparison rings true, and Phil makes a number … Continue reading
Morgan Stanley came out with a their latest research report on cloud computing. It’s a 100+ page document – plus four pages of disclaimers and disclosures! – so in the interest of time, I’ll take you quickly through what I … Continue reading
The last six months have been transformative for Okta. We have been growing our employee base, acquiring new customers, and finished up a year where we delivered no less than 50 new releases of innovative functionality to our on-demand service. … Continue reading
Back in February of this year, we closed our Series A round of financing. We haven’t announced it until now – we’ve been too focused on building our product, our team and making our customers successful. Now that enough people … Continue reading
At Okta we’re very bullish on the cloud. Our name literally means cloud cover. At a high level, we believe that cloud computing, and applications and systems delivered as services are a fundamentally better way to build corporate IT. They … Continue reading
Company values matter. I mean really matter. As in billions of dollars and creating new industries. Most people say they matter, but I’m not sure everyone really believes that values are transformational in their significance. I learned this first hand. … Continue reading
Every great technology company starts with a great product. When you first start the hard work of turning your vision into living, breathing code, you have critical decisions to make about your foundation. It is critical to “build your house … Continue reading