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Interesting post from on the cloud downtime dilemma from Software Advice. It cites a Radicati Group study, which found that among popular on-premise email systems, there was an average of 30-60 minutes of unscheduled downtime per month, in addition to the 36-90 minutes of scheduled downtime – so between 66-120 minutes of total downtime per month…

Next week we’ll be hosting a webinar with our friends over at Rackspace about extending Active Directory to the cloud on Thursday, May 5th at 9AM PDT. In addition to an overview of the benefits of integrating cloud/SaaS apps to Active Directory, the webinar will also discuss different ways to deliver it, including: * Vendor APIs from apps like…

We announced some of our latest customers today, including AppDynamics, Drobo, Farm Credit Services of Mid-America, Rypple, and WhitePages. And we can’t help but brag – but our customers are some of the most innovative companies on the market today. Drobo is the maker of award-winning storage products that combine data protection, affordable…

In taking a moment to gather thoughts as the BigIdeas Conference wraps ups here in Chicago, it’s clear that we had a great show. Two of the themes of the show were “customer success” and “have fun” and the BigMachines folks really delivered on both aspects. First, it’s cool to work with great partners like BigMachines who build products that…

Building Okta over the last 18 months has proven to be an exciting ride. When people ask Todd and me "what has surprised you most", Todd being the wiser one often answers something very simple, profound and true like "everything takes longer than you think." I often tend to offer something more pedestrian (and less profound, but equally true)…

We are very pleased to share that CRN has recently named Okta one of the top 10 solutions delivering new functionality to the Cloud. Long-trusted as one of the premier publications for channel and reseller partners, its outstanding to receive this type of validation from the editors at CRN! With a growing number of accolades for Okta, from both…

Part II: Bringing the Consumer Experience to Okta That was then, this is now Fortunately for all of us enterprise application users, today’s environment is very different from the one I described in Part I of this post. As Eric mentioned in his recent post, the consumerization of IT is underway. Enterprise software companies are now being held to…

Part I: Why Enterprise Software Has Such a Bad Rep We are all consumers. The experience we have with products in our personal lives helps set expectations for any product that we interact with – the enterprise software we use at work included. In the past, that software was infamous for being complicated and costly, and the user experience for…

The fine folks over at SearchCloudComputing named Okta as one of their top 10 cloud computing startups this morning. We're proud and flattered to be included with such a powerful group of new technology companies that are clearly poised to disrupt. Everyday we're getting great feedback from our customers and its incredibly exciting to see some…

Much has been written in the last few years about the macro level changes impacting enterprise software. The phrase Consumerization of IT has been used widely to describe how consumer technologies are penetrating the enterprise (iPhones, Skype, Facebook, Twitter), and how enterprise IT products are changing to provide more consumer-like…