We noticed lots of chatter last week about the rise of cloud adoption and how easy implementations (or so they seem at the time) often create problems down the road. It’s true, of course, but nothing that can’t be solved with an empowered IT department steering the ship. SaaS Adoption on a Tear: Hollis Tibbetts wrote in ebizQ about how cloud…

InformationWeek’s Michael Biddick expresses the frustrations of many in modern IT trying to navigate a complex environment that often includes a mix of on-premise software and cloud applications. In the article, Biddick offers a clear explanation about how we got to this point: Enterprises’ struggle to successfully integrate on-premise and cloud…

Here’s our roundup of the week’s biggest cloud stories: Private Clouds Just Aren’t Worth the Trouble InformationWeek’s Jonathan Feldman wrote some spot-on analysis last weekend explaining why the private cloud is just not practical for most businesses. In Feldman’s view, implementation snags are the crux of the problem. He writes: “There's…

With over thousands of applications in our Okta Application Network, it’s hard to play favorites. Still, every few weeks, we’ll attempt to highlight a handful of partners that we’re psyched about – and what makes them unique compared to other applications in our massive (and growing) library. We’ll also call out what kind of integration options…

The new generation of cloud-first IT is fundamentally different from the old world of on-premise. It’s cheaper, leaner, more flexible and far easier to implement – and it requires a new breed of support staff to keep everything running smoothly. That’s the gist of Appirio CTO Glenn Weinstein’s recent article in Forbes (“Next-Generation IT: Why We…

Dreamforce may be right around the corner, but before Benioff and Metallica dominate the news cycle, here’s a look at this week’s cloud news stories: Pain in the Private Cloud SearchCloudComputing.com’s Carl Brooks wrote an interesting post earlier this week about how two IT vendors reworked their own internal IT departments — and quickly learned…

Christina Torode from SearchCIO.com recently published a piece discussing the merits of private cloud versus public cloud implementations, with the consensus that hybrid IT and a hybrid cloud computing approach will become “the dominant cloud adoption strategy.” While we’re not shy about our belief that public cloud is the way to go, we also…

Yesterday, I posted about how we pitched our investors for this latest round of funding on our disruption of the IT industry and why our solution is necessary for cloud to work in the enterprise. Today, I’d like to talk more about the larger market opportunity we see and our plans for the new funding. A Fundamental Shift – In Need of a Foundation…

As I’m sure you’ve seen, we announced today that we’ve closed our series B financing. Khosla and Greylock, David and Aneel all bring invaluable experience as investors and operators to our team. Needless to say, we are excited. This investment gives us the capital we need to make our current customers more successful, broaden our product and…

As (almost) always, it was a busy week in the cloud. Here’s our take on some of the week’s biggest news. SaaS: The Best Possible Model for SMBs & the Enterprise SearchCloudComputing.com ran a story on cloud computing’s trajectory from an IT outsourcing strategy to the full-blown platform that it is today (“The Reinvention of SaaS”). We…