Manage Your Cloud Access with Simple Cloud Identity Management

Identity Management is a big task for the Cloud solution providers. Currently out of the 4 As (authentication, authorization, account management and audit logging) of Identity Management, Authentication is only usually used to provide access to cloud solutions. So for enterprises it is a big challenge to determine which standard protocol to use to create/delete/control/manage cloud identities.

The Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) protocol seems to be ideal for Cloud identity management. It reportedly enables smooth integration and also easy to develop, and is based on strong authentication, authorization, and privacy principles.

Please do share your experiences with Simple Cloud Identity Management!

The recent Gartner forecasts show that Cloud is on a high in India. Here are the pointers of the report:

 

• The public cloud services market predicted to grow at 32.4 percent in 2012 to total US$ 326.2 million.
• Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is the largest segment, and is expected to grow to US$ 115.6 million in 2012.

• Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is expected to grow from US$ 35.2 million in 2011 to US$ 42.7 million in 2012.
• BpaaS (business process-as-a-service) is expected to grow to US$ 112.1 million in 2012 from US$ 90.3 million in 2011.
• By 2016, cloud computing services will become the largest single segment within the public cloud services market in India, growing to US$ 140.8 million, and accounting for about 14 percent of total public cloud services spending.