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 ...

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 ...

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.

Identity management is a key focus in managing ensuring security in the cloud, a technology Microsoft has invested heavily in. The company has a major effort afoot to extend Active Directory, the ...

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, ...

Amazon Web Services has released a new cloud-based identity management solution this week. The AWS Directory Service lets organizations give users credentialed access to applications in the AWS cloud ...

Everyone knows by now that Microsoft is getting into the cloud business. But for a long time one of the biggest obstacles to corporate customers joining Microsoft on that move was the lack of an ...

Ten years ago today, Microsoft released its Active Directory technology to skepticism that it could build an infrastructure technology to anchor user management and access control. Now the software is ...

Love it or hate it, Microsoft’s Active Directory remains one of the most-used identity services in the enterprise. Google’s Cloud Platform has long allowed you to manually set up an Active Directory ...