What the Press Says About Centrify
Excerpts from journalists, analysts, customers and industry observers
Here's what industry publications and analysts have to say about Centrify. Also check our Customer Success Stories for a sampling of what our customers say about the value of our solutions.
- 12/23/2005
- LinuxWorld Editorial: It's About the ToolsMark R. Hinkle, LinuxWorld I think there is real potential for products like Centrify, which helps to integrate non-Microsoft systems with Active Directory because it's helpful in managing and maintaining continuity among a homogenous data center.
- 10/10/2005
- LinuxWorld UK Impresses With DepthLinux Planet One of the more intriguing pieces of software at the show was from Centrify. They provide extensions to the pluggable authentication modules (PAM) that enable you to login directly to an Active Directory server. I had a long conversation with the main technical liaison about the need for this kind of unified login (the system is supported on Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X). As much as we'd like Linux to be ubiquitous, Linux is often used as a platform within an existing Windows network and authentication can be a problem.
- 10/07/2005
- The identity management challengeInfoWorld The only potential stumbling blocks for Microsoft in our Windows-centric test network were the Linux-based e-HRMS and webERP applications. Microsoft managed SSO the same way for both apps, using neither Windows nor MIIS but a $600 third-party add-on called Centrify DirectControl. DirectControl agents turned each Linux system into AD clients that used the Kerberos ticket associated with [the test account's] AD authentication to manage log-ins to e-HRMS and webERP.
- 10/06/2005
- DirectControl: Extend AD Management and Control to Non-Windows EnvironmentsDatamation the platform does not require any changes to the existing Active Directory Schema, nor does it require reorganization of differing UNIX IDs for users. Multiple UNIX accounts can be associated with a single AD account via the definition and assignment of Zones—administrator grouped computers that share common properties. Each user can have unique settings for each “Zone” that they are enabled for; including separate shell, home directory, user IDs, and login names.
- 09/16/2005
- Active Directory Solutions for LinuxinformIT Centrify DirectControl “offers perhaps the most compelling and comprehensive solution for Active Directory integration. The process of installing Centrify on a Linux client and connecting to an Active Directory is totally painless: install one RPM, issue a single ‘net join’ command, supply your administrator credentials, and presto, your Linux box is joined to the network just as is a Windows workstation. To administrate the extended UNIX user data, Centrify provides a Windows-based GUI application that can be run from any Windows-based workstation. Using the GUI, you can enforce granular Windows 2000 Group Policy controls, by department, geography, function, system type, or any means you wish. You can also grant administrators granular levels of privileges to fine tune their actual effective rights on the network.”
- 09/09/2005
- Information Security: The Next FrontierCIO Magazine Leading-edge startups are essential to meeting these security needs. Identity management solutions allow organizations to better restrict access to resources. Centrify, for instance, extends Microsoft Active Directory to provide access and policy management to UNIX-based systems.
- 08/24/2005
- Network tech motivates large venture roundsMercuryNews.com Centrify of Mountain View raised $14 million in a second round of venture funding led by INVESCO Private Capital with participation from existing investors Mayfield and Accel Partners. The company has raised more than $21 million. Centrify develops software to integrate non-Microsoft platforms with Microsoft Active Directory management services. Founded in March 2004, Centrify has 60 employees, with half in the Bay Area.
- 08/17/2005
- Opening WindowsTechnologyReview.com Such a unifying product also helps with security and the need to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which has caused many publicly traded companies to tighten control over their networks to avoid corporate malfeasance suits. This promising market opportunity aside, we are impressed with Centrify’s seemingly sure-handed plan of execution. Founded in March 2004, the company delivered the first version of its product in February 2005, or less than a year after launch. The second version of DirectControl was released earlier this month, the same day the company announced its latest infusion of cash.
- 08/11/2005
- Microsoft gets serious about Linux interoperabilityvnunet.com The team [in Microsoft's Linux and open source lab] spent a lot of time improving how Linux systems can talk to Microsoft's Active Directory and finally settled on a third-party application called Centrify. "Getting authentication to work correctly with Active Directory is not simple," admitted Hilf [lab director]. "It's often fragile and to do it in a broad way is a non-trivial technical task."
- 08/11/2005
- Microsoft's Linux Guru Woos Coders with FreebieseWeek Historically, getting Active Directory to work with Linux was a non-trivial, very complex task, Hilf [director of Microsoft's Linux and open source lab] said, before suggesting a product from a Microsoft partner, Centrify DirectControl, as a solution in this regard.
- 08/10/2005
- Centrify Closes Series B With $14M For ExpansionVenture Wire Reprint DirectControl is designed to extend the capabilities of Microsoft Corp.'s Active Directory for mixed Windows, UNIX and Linux environments. The product enables companies to use a single directory to manage mixed environments, consolidate user identification and sign-on processes, and control a user's access to all systems and applications. “We also provide configuration management capabilities so people can make bulk changes to a set of servers from a centralized location,” [Centrify CEO Tom] Kemp said in a prior interview.
- 08/09/2005
- Centrify to Ship Updated Active Directory SuiteRedmondMag.com The new version includes more than 50 new, out-of-the-box group policy templates for Unix and Linux systems, even Group Policies for Linux firewall configuration.
- 07/29/2005
- Centrify Extends Microsoft Active DirectoryWireless Business and Technology As Michael Stephenson, Director of Windows Server Product Management of Microsoft Corporation says, "Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services brings distributed users, systems and applications together in a secure, trusted relationship. Microsoft is pleased to partner with Centrify to help customers extend the use of Active Directory to their heterogeneous systems and applications, and now with Centrify's support for Microsoft ADFS this interoperability has been extended to Web Single Sign-on federated identity management scenarios."
- 07/11/2005
- Active Directory expands beyond WindowsNetwork World "Microsoft is now entering the market with its own single sign-on, federated identity management platform, and the challenge that it has is that for users to do federated identity they have to have a pure Microsoft environment and from a Web applications perspective that is just not going to be the case" in most companies, says Tom Kemp, CEO of Centrify.
- 07/07/2005
- Active Directory Federation Services for Non-Microsoft PlatformsWindowsIT Pro Speaking at Tech Ed Europe, Centrify said it will deliver DirectControl, which is a federated identity solution that works on Apache as well as J2EE application servers such as IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, JBoss, and Tomcat without the need for additional federated identity software.
- 06/06/2005
- Centrify Announces Support for TigerThe Mac Observer
- 06/06/2005
- Centrify certifies Tiger for DirectControlMacWorld Another win for Apple in the enterprise computing space: Centrify Corp. on Monday announced that it has added Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" to the list of platforms it supports through its DirectControl suite.
- 05/10/2005
- Active Directory integration app adds Debian supportDesktop Linux
- 03/24/2005
- Centrify Offers First Solution that Extends Active Directory to LinuxSarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal
- 02/16/2005
- Startup Extends Active Directory to Linux SystemseWeek
- 02/14/2005
- Identify, simplify, CentrifyNetwork World
- 02/14/2005
- Start-up aims to extend Active DirectoryNetwork World
- 02/09/2005
- Centrify's DirectControl Extends Microsoft Active Directory to Linux/UnixReal World Linux Biz
... the capabilities in DirectControl give enterprises increased flexibility and security when administering their heterogeneous environments, increasing the business value of enterprise investments in both Active Directory and distributed systems.
Michael Dortch
Principal Business Analyst
Robert Frances Group