{"id":31818,"date":"2017-09-27T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2017\/sep\/27\/google-cloud-acquires-bitium-greater-identity-and-access-management\/"},"modified":"2017-09-27T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:00:05","slug":"google-cloud-acquires-bitium-for-greater-identity-and-access-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/google-cloud-acquires-bitium-for-greater-identity-and-access-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud acquires Bitium for greater identity and access management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/img\/news\/iStock-458530319_gAAwc9V.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Google Cloud has beefed up its identity and access management game with the acquisition of Bitium, a Santa Monica-based firm.<\/p>\n<p>Bitium, founded in 2012, offers a variety of identity management features, including secure access, user provisioning and deprovisioning, app management and single sign on.<\/p>\n<p>In a short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/topics\/google-cloud\/welcome-google-cloud\/\">blog post<\/a> confirming the news, Karthik Lakshminarayanan, director of product management for G Suite and Cloud Identity, said the move will help mitigate customers&rsquo; risks around managing and securing cloud applications.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our enterprise customers want a comprehensive solution for identity and access management and SSO that works across their modern cloud and mobile environments,&rdquo; wrote Lakshminarayanan. &ldquo;Bitium helps us deliver a broad portfolio of app integrations for provisioning and SSO that complements our best in class device management capabilities in the enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As we add Bitium&rsquo;s capabilities, we&rsquo;ll continue to work closely with our vibrant ecosystem of identity partners so that customers are able to choose the best solutions to meet their needs,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>From Bitium&rsquo;s side, <a href=\"https:\/\/hello.bitium.com\/#bitium-has-been-acquired-by-google\">a note<\/a> from the two founders, CEO Scott Kriz and CTO Erik Gustavson, thanked their investors and explained the move. &ldquo;When we started Bitium, our goal was to change how people and companies work by fundamentally changing the way they interact with software, starting with single sign-on and identity access management,&rdquo; the note read. &ldquo;Joining the team at Google Cloud allows us to continue along this path and accelerate these efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Google Cloud team shares our vision for improving the way companies use software, enabling them to innovate faster.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Cloud has beefed up its identity and access management game with the acquisition of Bitium, a Santa Monica-based firm.<br \/>\nBitium, founded in 2012, offers a variety of identity management features, including secure access, user provisioning and depr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31819,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31818\/revisions\/31819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}