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  • JumpCloud Introduces Directory-as-a-Service

    First Cloud-based Directory Service Builds upon the Company’s Strong User Management, Orchestration, and Security Foundation

    BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–JumpCloud today announced the availability of the industry’s first Directory-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution. Through a SaaS-based offering, organizations can move the last vestiges of their legacy, on-premise IT systems to a fully-managed cloud service, providing an alternative to solutions such as Microsoft Active Directory® (AD) or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

    “As we have seen with the transitions from Siebel to SalesForce, Exchange to Gmail, and file servers to DropBox, JumpCloud is enabling the transition of one of the last on-premise technologies to a fully managed service: the user directory”

    JumpCloud’s DaaS is the first cloud-based directory with the ability to authenticate, authorize, and manage users, devices, and applications. The service acts as a single-user store for an organization or can extend existing AD/LDAP user stores to the cloud. Further, it integrates with single sign-on (SSO) providers without forcing IT admins to manage multiple directories.

    “Jumpcloud understands the need for directory services in the cloud,” said Salvatore D’Agostino, CEO of IDmachines. “Building on their secure shell configuration management tools, this offer puts in place cloud-to-machine, user authentication and other directory services. At IDmachines, we see this as a big need in current XaaS.”

    “As we have seen with the transitions from Siebel to SalesForce, Exchange to Gmail, and file servers to DropBox, JumpCloud is enabling the transition of one of the last on-premise technologies to a fully managed service: the user directory,” says Rajat Bhargava, JumpCloud’s President and CEO. “Directory-as-a-Service brings IT teams the simplicity, ubiquity, and security of user and device management, all from the cloud.”

    A single, secure user directory is a foundational element of any company. By moving the directory to the cloud, organizations are more agile, efficient, and secure. Further, DaaS enables IT admins to take advantage of major IT innovations, including cloud services such as IaaS and Gmail, and additional device/operating system combinations, such as Linux and OSX, among others.

    JumpCloud has reimagined the directory for the cloud era. The company’s new Directory-as-a-Service meets three critical enterprise needs:

    • Organizations who need a user directory – With the combination of a hosted LDAP offering as well as an agent-based authentication mechanism, this offering takes the heavy lifting off of IT and places it on JumpCloud while enabling the customer to authenticate and authorize cloud infrastructure, servers, IT applications, and internal devices.
    • Organizations extending their AD or LDAP to the cloud – With the adoption of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), managing server users is largely a manual process and can create reliability and security issues due to the complexity introduced around networking and security configurations. JumpCloud easily, reliably, and securely extends an existing user directory to cloud-based servers and infrastructure.
    • Organizations replacing AD – Many organizations have migrated to Gmail from Microsoft Exchange, but are still forced to leverage AD for continued management of devices (functionality not available with the Google Apps Directory). JumpCloud’s DaaS gives IT admins a fully cloud-based solution that connects and manages users, their devices and IT applications.Pricing and availability
      JumpCloud’s Directory-as-a-Service is available immediately. Pricing plans start at $10 per user per month, and the first ten users are free forever. JumpCloud supports the LDAP protocol and works with Windows, Mac, and Linux devices.About JumpCloud
      JumpCloud, the first Directory-as-a-Service (DaaS), is Active Directory® and LDAP reimagined. JumpCloud securely connects and manages employees, their devices and IT applications. Try JumpCloud’s cloud-based directory free at jumpcloud.com.
  • JumpCloud launches new Directory-as-a-Service offering

    JumpCloud launches new Directory-as-a-Service offering

    The cloud is a great equalizer that enables startups and smaller companies to scale quickly, and play on a more or less even playing field with larger organizations. Managed cloud services free businesses up from implementing, configuring, and maintaining the underlying infrastructure, and allow individuals to focus on the business. With all of the freedom cloud services provide, though, there is still a need for a directory service that defines who the users are, and controls which individuals have access to which resources. JumpCloud wants to move that to the cloud as well.

    JumpCloud has established itself as a leading solution for managing security across a vast, rapidly-changing, virtual ecosystem in the cloud. Today, JumpCloud is announcing a new offering that takes builds on that foundation, and applies its experience to deliver Directory-as-a-Service (DaaS). JumpCloud claims its new service will allow organizations to stop managing directory services locally, and enable them to move to a fully-managed, cloud-based alternative to LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) or Microsoft AD (Active Directory).

    “As we have seen with the transitions from Siebel to SalesForce, Exchange to Gmail, and file servers to DropBox, JumpCloud is enabling the transition of one of the last on-premise technologies to a fully managed service: the user directory,” says Rajat Bhargava, JumpCloud’s President and CEO in a press release statement. “Directory-as-a-Service brings IT teams the simplicity, ubiquity, and security of user and device management, all from the cloud.”

    The JumpCloud DaaS services can act as the sole user store for an organization, or it can extend existing AD or LDAP user stores to the cloud. JumpCloud DaaS also integrates with single sign-on (SSO) providers so that IT admins are not forced to manage multiple directories.

    “JumpCloud understands the need for directory services in the cloud,” said Salvatore D’Agostino, CEO of IDmachines. “Building on their secure shell configuration management tools, this offer puts in place cloud-to-machine, user authentication and other directory services. At IDmachines, we see this as a big need in current XaaS.”

    JumpCloud DaaS promises to help organizations be more agile and more effective whether they’re just implementing a directory service, extending an on-premise directory service to the cloud, or migrating locally-managed directory services to the cloud.

    A cloud-based DaaS offering makes sense. No matter what size an organization is, managing the user directory through local, manual processes is an obstacle to realizing the full benefits of other cloud services. It creates complexity, and introduces reliability and security issues. Cloud-based services need a cloud-based directory service—a directory service that can keep up in terms of availability, scalability, and flexibility.

    JumpCloud DaaS—like other managed cloud offerings—takes the burden off of local IT to manage the backend of the directory services infrastructure, and places it on JumpCloud. Customers can focus on building things, and authenticate and authorize cloud infrastructure, servers, applications, users, and devices.

    JumpCloud’s Directory-as-a-Service is available immediately. Pricing plans start at $10 per user per month, and the first ten users are free forever. JumpCloud supports the LDAP protocol and works with Windows, Mac, and Linux devices.