On Thursday Likewise announced membership in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program as an Advantage Alliance Partner. The collaboration provides NetApp customers with identity management and authentication software for secure access control of NetApp unified storage systems.
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Likewise joins desktops and servers running Linux, Windows and Macs to an organization's existing network using Microsoft Active Directory. This provides a single, secure framework for authentication and access control in heterogeneous networks. Likewise supports more than 180 variations of Linux, Mac, Unix and virtualization technologies, in addition to NetApp unified storage systems.
"Enterprises are seeking improved compliance and operational efficiency," said Ken Cheney, vice president of business development, Likewise. "As an Advantage Partner, we can assist NetApp customers with heterogeneous environments to leverage their investments in Microsoft Active Directory to achieve unified directory access. The end result is a single system to manage authentication with a centralized policy definition point to control access to an enterprise's most important asset - information."
"NetApp is committed to helping our customers drive their businesses by making storage simpler and cheaper to manage," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances at NetApp. "With Likewise joining the NetApp Alliance Partner Program, together we can simplify storage management while improving security.
Glenn Rossman has more than 25 years communications experience working at IBM and Hewlett-Packard, along with startup StorageApps, plus agencies Hill & Knowlton and G&A Communications. His experience includes media relations, industry and financial analyst relations, executive communications, intranet and employee communications, as well as producing sales collateral. In technology, his career includes work in channel partner communications, data storage technologies, server computers, software, PC and UNIX computers, along with specific industry initiatives such as manufacturing, medical, and finance.
Before his latest stint in technology, Glenn did business-to-business public relations on behalf of the DuPont Company for its specialty polymers products and with the largest steel companies in North America in an initiative focused on automakers.
Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
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