Self-service triggers images of vending machines, gas stations or those new check-out kiosks in the supermarket. But what if I told you self-service could be about putting the power in the hands of the user, and driving efficiency. I’m talking about self-service IT – giving users the tools they need to help themselves, and get their job done…

When you live and work in San Francisco’s little (or maybe not-so-little) tech community, it can be all too easy to get wrapped up in our world of product launches and funding announcements and to forget about the other communities in our beautiful city. There’s no denying that the Bay Area is home to some of the world’s most innovative and…

Sony has made big headlines – for all the wrong reasons – for having sensitive company data stolen and posted online in late November. (For full details, I’d recommend WIRED’s “Sony Got Hacked Hard: What We Know and Don’t Know So Far.”) The event has sparked a lot of debate as to the source of the attack and how it was achieved, with the…

For Ren Buenviaje, an unplanned career move (implementing identity management solutions) and years of experience developing user interfaces were just the background she needed to land a job at Okta. Now a senior UI engineer at Okta, Ren is helping engineering teams make their code beautiful and empowering people to work better and smarter, and…

27 customer-lead sessions. 937 tweets about #Oktane14. Plus, the fire alarm only went off once -- and, as our co-founder and COO Frederic Kerrest joked, zero Okta employees were deprovisioned after our big customer celebration at the Exploratorium. On November 10-12, we welcomed more than 1,000 customers and partners to our second annual user…

Ensuring security has always been an omnipresent concern for businesses. But in today’s world of increased cloud adoption, more of a focus on mobility and the ubiquity of connected APIs, the number of malicious threats has amplified – driving enterprises to rethink traditional security postures. New security models must include both the context of…

The days are getting shorter. It’s even cold enough to choose a jacket based on function, not form. And while we’d argue it’s still too early to put up a Christmas tree or get out the menorah, the holiday season is certainly upon us. But before we head out of town to visit families and cook delectable meals, we wanted to take a minute to think…

I want to start things off by saying thank you to the more than 1,000 customers and partners who joined us for Oktane14. It was an exciting week for us, and a major part of that was seeing our team’s hard work finally come to fruition – putting on an incredible event and sharing our biggest product news to date. In case you missed the first day of…

When I presented my wife with a PowerPoint entitled, “Proposal to Move to a New Job Starting a New Company (Why I’m Not Crazy)” a little over five years ago, I started off by explaining how cloud computing was changing the face of the enterprise and disrupting the business of established vendors, creating huge opportunity for new companies. I told…

It’s the event that we work toward every year, and now it’s less than a week away. #Oktane14 is all set to kick off next week and we could not be more thrilled about speakers and events we have prepared for all those attending. Oktane14 is bound to be a jam-packed few days where you’ll be running from one thing to the next, so we want to ensure…