Directory Concepts range of service offerings enable businesses to better understand the benefits and risks of cloud computing for different types of organisations and computing workloads.

Identity Management in the Cloud

As organisations look to reduce cost and increase business agility, the concept of ‘cloud computing’ offers a service delivery option to achieve those goals. Whether it be an Internet-based cloud, or a private cloud within the data centre, a range of services, from collaboration and messaging to infrastructure management, can be delivered through a cloud-approach.

The shift from traditional local based managed software models to remote based managed service applications as a service has evolved. With a cloud based Identity and Security management solution, companies can substantially reduce their costs, complexity and resource issues related to the management of the day to day running of the Identity software and hardware components whilst still maintaining the mandated compliance and security requirements.

Directory Concepts' range of service offerings enable businesses to better understand the benefits and risks of cloud computing for different types of organisations and computing workloads. We provide a range of consulting services to assess cloud-based services and define a roadmap to adoption - either directly to Internet-based services or on-premise private cloud data centres.

Directory Concepts, using our proven Identity and Access Management methodologies and project experience has created a “black box” identity solution specifically designed to facilitate the Identity lifecycle for cloud based applications. The secure, high quality, shared infrastructure that comes with a cloud based Identity solution means we provide the identity and security as a utility: Companies only pay for what identity services are required, on a platform of choice, scaling up or down to new connected systems is simple whilst at the same time maintaining compliance, security and the functionality that would normally receive from a local based implementation.

Our broad infrastructure skills enable us to ensure that any organisation has the right network and data centre prerequisites to properly support cloud computing, and our migration and management services remove risk and complexity.

Cloud computing - sometimes also referred to as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) - offers a number of benefits, including:

• Well-defined services that are activated as required,

• Services that may be scaled up and down as required;

• Ability to deliver services in a manner that takes advantage of automation and scale.