UPDATED 14:52 EDT / SEPTEMBER 23 2014

JumpCloud unveils Directory-as-a-Service (DaaS) Active Directory replacement in the cloud

JumpClouddevops-jumpcloud is an agent that releases IT departments and DevOps from tasks related to the management and monitoring of servers and, more generally, of the entire cloud infrastructure. In this way, startups and companies will be able to concentrate on the development and application aspects.

Now extending into cloud infrastructure, the Boulder, CO-based company has announced JumpCloud Directory as a Service (DaaS), a new offering that the company projects as an alternative to existing on-premise directory services like the Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

A true replacement?

 

Conventional IT in the Windows world has historically dealt with the Active Directory service to provide centralized services for identification and authentication via directory management.

JumpCloud’s DaaS offering brings user directory management to the cloud. According to the company, the DaaS service fulfills three core user needs: organizations who need a user directory; organizations replacing AD; and organizations extending their AD or LDAP to the cloud. Starting at $10 per user per month and free for the first ten users, JumpCloud supports the LDAP protocol and works with Windows, Mac, and Linux devices.

The service can authenticate, authorize, and manage users, devices, and applications. It acts as a single-user store for an organization or can extend existing AD and LDAP user stores to the cloud. The service also works with single sign-on (SSO) to manage multiple applications and directories.

“As we have seen with the transitions from Siebel to SalesForce, Exchange to Gmail, and file servers to DropBox, JumpCloud is enabling the transition of one of the last on-premise technologies to a fully managed service: the user directory,” says Rajat Bhargava, JumpCloud’s President and CEO. “Directory-as-a-Service brings IT teams the simplicity, ubiquity, and security of user and device management, all from the cloud.”

Good for developers

 

JumpCloud DaaS promises to help organizations be more agile and more effective by extending the on-premise directory service to the cloud or migrating locally-managed directory services to the cloud.

Developers now no longer need to extend their code to fulfill the AD requirements; the cloud based directory service can keep up services in terms of availability, scalability, and flexibility. Further, the company says DaaS enables IT admins to take advantage of major IT innovations, including cloud services such as IaaS and Gmail, and additional device/operating system combinations, such as Linux and OSX, among others.

Recently, JumpCloud extended the reach of its automation tools to more developers through the Marketplace for Rackspace Hosting. In addition, the company launched its cloud hosting-based server orchestration platform that help users to automate the execution of server management tasks and workflows across a group of servers. The orchestration platform significantly reduces errors and time spent on manual server management tasks and workflows, and increase uptime, consistency of operations, and availability by centralizing and making visible scripts created in an ad hoc fashion.


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