I am very excited to blog about our announcement at CA World of two new cloud IAM services.

1. CA IdentityMinder as-a-Service
2. CA FedMinder as-a-Service

These two services are part of the CA CloudMinder IAM as-a-Service portfolio. The solutions are managed and sold by CA Technologies and provide similar capabilities as CA Identity Manager and CA Federation Manager.  The services give our customers the option to use our IAM technology either on premise, as a service or a mix of both.  The addition of these cloud solutions to our existing managed authentication services give customers a wide range of CloudMinder security services to support their growing business initiatives. 

This launch serves as another proof point of our corporate strategy to enable cloud use and help simplify cloud choice - the decision of if and when to embrace cloud and then select the right type of cloud offering - public, private or hybrid. 

With these two new cloud IAM services, organizations can now enable such capabilities as:

• User Management-Reduces administrative overhead by giving users, customers and partners self-service functionality including profile creation, password reset and forgotten user name discovery.
• Provisioning -Provides centralized administration for managing access to cloud and on-premise applications. This includes adding, deleting and changing users and their association to a given group or role.
• Federated SSO-Provides SSO to third party Web applications improving the end-user experience and productivity.

Organizations also reap the benefits of a cloud service including elastic capability, cost-savings, pay-as-you-go pricing and shorter deployment cycles.

As enterprises continue to operate in a hybrid environment that blends on-premise and cloud-based IAM services, CA is now positioned to deliver on both and give maximum flexibility to deploy IAM in a hybrid environment that best matches customer needs.

This is a significant announcement not just for the capabilities these services unlock for our customers, but also as a proof point of our commitment to the cloud as a viable delivery mechanism for IAM.   This is by no means the end of the story, but the beginning of our cloud journey - join us for the ride!