{"id":7748,"date":"2013-06-07T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2691229"},"modified":"2013-06-07T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:08:00","slug":"centrify-for-saas-supports-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/centrify-for-saas-supports-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Centrify for SaaS Supports Office 365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centrify, which made its bones making Microsoft\u2019s popular Active Directory accessible to Redmond\u2019s enemies list, is spreading its wings and snuggling up closer to Microsoft at the same time by throwing it something of a lifeline.<br \/>\nSee, Microsoft expects Office 365 to be one of the fastest-growing businesses in its history. It\u2019s already claimed it\u2019s got a billion-dollar run rate. There\u2019s only one little problem.<br \/>\nThe widgetry Microsoft supplies for Active Directory integration \u2013 ADFS or Active Directory Federation Services \u2013 is a pain in the proverbial tail for both Microsoft\u2019s field personnel and the channel, which is paid to sell Office 365 and hardly needs to spend hours wrestling with the slippery stuff since it actually takes pricey dedicated hardware and specialized knowledge of the operating system to get it up and running. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2691229\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centrify, which made its bones making Microsoft&rsquo;s popular Active Directory accessible to Redmond&rsquo;s enemies list, is spreading its wings and snuggling up closer to Microsoft at the same time by throwing it something of a lifeline.<br \/>\nSee, Microsoft expects Office 365 to be one of the fastest-growing businesses in its history. It&rsquo;s already claimed it&rsquo;s got a billion-dollar run rate. There&rsquo;s only one little problem.<br \/>\nThe widgetry Microsoft supplies for Active Directory integration &ndash; ADFS or Active Directory Federation Services &ndash; is a pain in the proverbial tail for both Microsoft&rsquo;s field personnel and the channel, which is paid to sell Office 365 and hardly needs to spend hours wrestling with the slippery stuff since it actually takes pricey dedicated hardware and specialized knowledge of the operating system to get it up and running. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2691229\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}