On Oct. 14, Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Active Directory Domain Services or, as I like to call it, a domain in a cloud. What is really interesting about this preview is that ...

Windows Azure has been evolving steadily since its release in spring 2010, its pricing is now fairer, and useful third-party add-ons can be found in the Windows Azure Store. Today, Windows Azure can ...

As a practical matter, when it comes to authentication, Microsoft Active Directory rules the data center roost. As such, when it comes to cloud computing, almost every conversation about moving an ...

Over the past decade, enterprises of all sizes have standardized on Microsoft Active Directory for managing user identity and authentication and setting Group Policies. This is largely due to ...

Microsoft has made available to testers the promised Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) bits. WAAD is Microsoft's project to bring the Active Directory technology in Windows Server to the cloud.

Eric is CEO of Strata Identity, an enterprise cloud identity expert, multi-exit serial entrepreneur and coauthor of the SAML SSO standard. One of the more challenging responsibilities for technology ...

Ninety-five percent of Fortune 500 companies use Active Directory, a 1990s technology, because their infrastructures are based on a 90s network architecture of on-premises PCs, applications, servers, ...