Centrify's Technology Partners

Centrify partners with a wide range of technology leaders in order to ensure that our solutions work seamlessly with theirs.

Mobile Technology Partners

• Appcelerator
• Apple

• Google

Appcelerator

Appcelerator website

Appcelerator's Titanium is the leading mobile platform of choice for thousands of companies seizing the mobile opportunity. With more than 50,000 applications deployed on 80 million devices, Appcelerator's award-winning Titanium Platform leverages over 5,000 mobile device and operating system APIs to create native iOS and Android apps, and HTML5 mobile web apps.

Appcelerator has partnered with Centrify to equip mobile applications built on Titanium with Centrify's new Mobile Authentication Services (MAS). Appcelerator's more than 350,000 mobile developers will have free access to Centrify's MAS, the industry’s first cloud service to provide "Zero Sign-On" authentication for mobile applications to cloud services leveraging Active Directory. For more information on Mobile Authentication Services for Titanium, visit the Appcelerator Marketplace.

• Learn More About Centrify and Appcelerator

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Apple

Apple website

Centrify provides a comprehensive solution for managing Apple technology — from Macs to iPhones to iPads — within the enterprise. Because Mac systems are deployed predominantly as desktops, Centrify has collaborated extensively with Apple and with customers on a solution that enables Mac OS X systems to be managed easily and transparently within an Active Directory infrastructure. Centrify DirectControl for Mac is the first and most robust solution that extends Active Directory Group Policy management to Mac OS X, enabling Windows-based administrators to centrally apply security and configuration policies to their entire Mac deployment as easily as they can today with Windows systems. DirectControl for Mac OS X, Smart Card Login Option, enables Mac OS X users to join Microsoft Active Directory environments that require two-factor authentication via smart cards. Centrify Express for Smart Card, enables the smart card-based authentication that federal government employees and contractors need in order to gain access to protected websites and other resources. And Centrify for Mobile enables IT departments to use familiar Group Policy tools together with the Centrify Cloud Service to enforce security settings over a trusted, over-the-air connection and secure access to corporate network services.

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Google

Google website

Centrify is helping Google to expand enterprise adoption of smart phones, tablets and other devices running on its Android mobile operating system by providing a solution for centrally securing and managing these devices using their existing Active Directory infrastructure. Centrify for Mobile enables IT departments to use familiar Group Policy tools together with the Centrify Cloud Service to enforce security settings over a trusted, over-the-air connection and secure access to corporate network services. In addition, mobile app developers can use the Centrify Mobile Authentication Services SDK to enable Active Directory-based authentication for Android-based app.

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Cloud Technology Partners

• Amazon
• Box
• Dropbox

• Microsoft
• Rightscale

Amazon

Amazon website

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a highly popular web service platform that IT organizations, application developers and web entreneurs are using to stand up everything from a single internal test system to massive web server farms. Amazon EC2 gives organizations the ability to launch and terminate server instances on demand and pay only modest hourly rental fees for active servers.

The Centrify Cloud Tools include several Centrify-Enabled Amazon Machine Images (AMI) that have been configured for automatic lock down at the moment when they are launched. Our free Centrify Express handles the tasks of automatically joining a new server instance to your enterprise Active Directory domain and locking down access to the root account. These Centrify AMIs are provided at no charge to Amazon EC2 users; however, standard Amazon virtual machine charges will apply.

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Box

Box website

Founded in 2005, Box provides a secure content sharing platform that both users and IT love and adopt. Centrify and Box have partnered to give Box users Box Single Sign-On and provide IT with centralized management and security using an existing infrastructure. In addition, the Centrify and Box partnership uniquely goes beyond browser SSO to give users mobile "zero sign on" to the Box Mobile App, with Box supporting Centrify's Mobile Authentication Services. Together, Box and Centrify are working with the leading mobile containerization vendors to ensure secure, seamless access to content inside the container. Box users can pick a dual persona technology like Samsung KNOX without compromising the one-click experience or enterprise-grade security. Learn more about Centrify and Box.

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Dropbox

Dropbox website

Dropbox simplifies millions of people's lives by letting them bring their docs, photos, and videos anywhere and share them easily. The service has more than 100 million users in over 200 countries. Dropbox has partnered with Centrify to provide a free solution for Dropbox customers: Centrify for Dropbox provides an elegantly simple way to leverage business users' existing Active Directory credentials for one-click access to Dropbox and all their favorite SaaS apps. Dropbox users win by obtaining a superior experience without password prompts to share documents, and IT departments gain control & visibility with role based security & access for Dropbox by leveraging an existing infrastructure they already own (Active Directory).

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Microsoft

Microsoft website

As a Gold Microsoft Certified Partner, Centrify works closely with Microsoft to develop a broad range of solutions that enable customers to further leverage their investment in Active Directory and centrally control, secure and audit access to data center and cloud-based systems, applications and mobile devices. As a Windows Azure ISV Fast Track Partner, Centrify provides unparalleled integration with an organization's on-premise Active Directory infrastructure and Group Policy-based management tools to easily secure and manage mobile devices, plus provide authentication services to native mobile apps. Learn more about Centrify and Microsoft.

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Rightscale

Rightscale website

RightScale is the leader in cloud computing management. Founded in 2006, the company offers a fully automated cloud management platform that enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business critical applications across multiple clouds — with maximum control and portability. What sets RightScale apart is a unique approach for managing complete deployments — comprising multiple servers and the connections between them — across one or more clouds. Using the RightScale Platform, you’ll be able to operate at a level above the underlying cloud infrastructure with solutions that are architected using best practices for cloud environments. Whether you are just getting started and need a simple on-ramp to the cloud or require support for complex deployments spanning multiple clouds, RightScale provides complete automation yet gives you the flexibility, control, and portability you need.

Centrify RightScripts can be used in RightScale ServerTemplates to manage cloud deployments (servers or groups of servers). Using Centrify RightScripts, administrators can deploy any one of the wide selection of operating systems supported by Centrify Express and secure them automatically.

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Data Center Technology Partners

Select a company name from the list to learn more:

Attachmate

Attachmate website

Attachmate builds host-integration, terminal-emulation, and PC X-server software. Attachmate has been connecting legacy applications to emerging technologies since 1981. Their expertise helps companies get the most value from their hosts today as they advance their long-term IT strategy. Attachmate Reflection and Centrify DirectControl enable IT organizations to provide Windows users with an easy single sign-on to Unix- and Linux-based systems and applications. IT organizations can realize significant cost savings by using DirectControl and Reflection, as well as strengthen security through enforcement of global password and other security policies across all systems. Centrify is a member of Attachmate’s Technology Partner program.

• Learn More About DirectControl and Reflection for Secure IT or Reflection for UNIX

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Canonical

Canonical website

Canonical provides engineering, online and professional services to Ubuntu partners and customers worldwide. As the company behind the Ubuntu project, Canonical is committed to the production and support of Ubuntu — an ever-popular and fast-growing open-source operating system. It aims to ensure that Ubuntu is available to every organization and individual on servers, desktops, laptops and netbooks. Centrify is a Gold Software Partner of Canonical. Canonical has certified Centrify Express to meet Ubuntu’s ease of use and performance standards, and distributes Centrify Express through its Ubuntu Software Partner Repository.

• Learn More about the Canonical/Centrify Partnership
• Joint Canonical/Centrify Webinar: Ubuntu for the Enterprise

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Citrix Systems

Citrix Systems website

Centrify DirectControl supports Citrix XenServer platform version 4, enabling organizations to seamlessly leverage Microsoft Active Directory to centrally control access to their XenServer deployment and to the Linux and Windows virtual guests running on it. By consolidating user authentication and access control for Citrix XenServer in Active Directory, Centrify DirectControl lets organizations easily add Citrix XenServers into their Microsoft infrastructure without increasing administrative overhead or introducing additional identity repositories.

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Hewlett Packard

Hewlett Packard website

The Centrify DirectControl supports Hewlett Packard’s HP-UX operating system on both the PA-RISC and Itanium platforms. Centrify is a member of the HP Developer & Solution Partner Program.

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IBM

IBM website

The Centrify DirectControl suite supports AIX 5L, IBM’s enterprise UNIX operating system, and the WebSphere server platform. Centrify is a member of PartnerWorld, IBM’s worldwide organization for business partners.

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NetApp

NetApp website

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Discover NetApp’s passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

• Learn More About the DirectControl Solution for NetApp Storage Systems

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Oracle

Oracle website

As the world's largest provider of enterprise software, Oracle delivers database, middleware, and other business application solutions and services. Centrify delivers Active Directory-based single sign-on for BEA WebLogic and Active Directory-based authentication for Oracle Database, enabling organizations to centrally secure and manage their Oracle solutions using the same administrative and policy tools and procedures currently in place for their Windows environment. Centrify is a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork and participates in the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program.

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Red Hat

Red Hat website

Centrify is a member of the Red Hat partner program, and Centrify DirectControl suite has been certified as Red Hat Ready for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 environments. In addition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Centrify also supports previous versions of Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora Core. With Red Hat Ready certification, Centrify helps assure customers of the reliability of the DirectControl suite running on Red Hat servers and workstations.

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SAP

SAP website

The Centrify DirectControl suite is certified by SAP on UNIX and Linux. This certification shows DirectControl to be a secure, compatible, reliable solution for single sign-on and security of the SAP Netweaver product.

• Learn More About DirectControl for SAP on UNIX and Linux

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Splunk

Splunk website

Splunk is the engine for machine data. Use Splunk to collect, index and harness the fast moving machine data generated by all your applications, servers and devices — physical, virtual and in the cloud. Search and analyze all your real-time and historical data from one place.

Centrify and Splunk are collaborating on two fronts. For Centrify customers: Centrify Insight harnesses the business intelligence power of Splunk to help you identify and analyze authentication and authorization events taking place on the UNIX, Linux and Mac systems managed by Centrify Suite or Centrify Express. For Splunk customers: Through the Centrify Add-On for Splunk, users have the option to leverage the Active Directory integration provided by Centrify to manage authentication and access control for Splunk clients deployed on UNIX and Linux systems.

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SSH Communications Security

SSH Communications Security website

SSH Communications Security is a world-leading provider of enterprise security solutions and end-to-end communications security, and the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol. With SSH Tectia, organizations can cost-effectively secure their system administration, file transfers and application connectivity against both internal and external security risks. By implementing SSH Tectia and Centrify DirectControl in tandem, enterprises can enable secure communications across diverse platforms while centralizing the administration of passwords and identities in Microsoft Active Directory.

• Learn More About SSH Tectia and DirectControl

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SUSE

SUSE website

The Centrify Suite supports the SUSE Linux Enterprise operating system, both the Server and Desktop versions.

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VMware

VMware website

Centrify DirectControl supports VMware's ESX Server. Centrify is a member of the VMware Global Technology Alliance Partners. The VMware Technology Program enables partner software companies to develop solutions that augment the value of VMware Virtual Infrastructure products in customers’ IT environments. By connecting VMware Virtual Infrastructure with their solutions, partners can deliver significantly improved infrastructure scalability and management, high availability, security and cost savings.

• Learn More About DirectControl for VMware ESX Server

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