Whether you call enterprise software sexy, cool or still super nerdy, there is no denying that this space is hot. There’s no shortage of headlines, industry reports and blog posts that cover the surge in business technology – many of which pit legacy behemoths and emerging cloud players against each other in a heated battle for the future of the…

Here at Okta, we’re always having interesting conversations with our customers and partners around what’s going on in the enterprise. In light of some of these recent conversations around the evolution of IT and the CIO role, we’re introducing “The Okta Thought Cloud,” a blog series that will explore customer, partner and broader Okta community…

Today, we officially announced the Okta Partner Program, a crucial step forward in our mission to expand our partner ecosystem of system integrators, resellers, referral partners and ISVs. The program will extend the reach of our future-proof identity management platform, delivering immediate value to both our customers and the customers of our…

School of Rock might not toot their own horn, but we certainly will. The music school franchise, already the national leader in music education, has recently expanded into several countries including Mexico and Brazil. As one of the largest musical instruction franchises with more than 100 schools worldwide, School of Rock faces the challenge of…

We are incredibly excited to announce our inaugural Okta User Conference: OKTANE13! Taking place November 3-5, 2013, at the InterContinental in San Francisco, OKTANE13 is an event you won’t want to miss. Join hundreds of IT professionals and industry thought-leaders for the premier identity, security and mobility event of the year. Whether you’re…

Transparency is a great way for cloud providers to demonstrate and prove good security practices to their customers. Often times, however, the transparency stops when outages or service hiccups occur. During an incident, how a cloud provider communicates to its customers says a lot. In a guest post for the Cloud Security Alliance, I discuss why…

Energy management is a hot topic (sometimes literally.) One of our customers, EnerNOC, is playing an industry-changing role in the energy management space by offering technology-enabled solutions to commercial, institutional and industrial organizations. In addition to providing demand response solutions, the company also offers energy consulting…

In the past twelve months, we added a few customers you might recognize, from your laundry detergent and cleaning supply brand to your favorite fast food fried chicken and your window to the world. That’s right: Clorox, Popeye's Chicken and National Geographic are now among our hundreds of enterprise customers. Another new customer that’s…

We recently hosted a CIO panel with four IT leaders to discuss the evolving role of IT amid the pressures of mobile and cloud adoption in business today. Ralph Loura (CIO, Clorox), Dan Willey (CIO, Wilbur-Ellis), Evan Trent (SVP, School of Rock) and Carl Eberling (CIO, Encore Capital) represented an eclectic mix with backgrounds in consumer goods,…

You might not know this, but we’ve got some pretty fascinating people working behind the scenes at Okta. We sat down with one of them – senior UX designer Brian Hansen – to discover what’s in the company’s special sauce, discussing what he does day-to-day, why he chose Okta and what drives him to come to work every morning (and no, we don’t mean…