Multicloud is the new normal for many organizations — and it’s growing fast. But while this approach brings several benefits, it also creates some hefty obstacles: Identity infrastructure often becomes siloed as a result, and applications are locked in by legacy identity management.
It’s a problem that Strata Identity was founded to solve. The startup wants to help businesses bring together identity and access management (IAM) systems so handling identities is simpler for administrators and users across both cloud and on-premises systems.
Founder and CEO Eric Olden was running Oracle’s security and identity division when he picked up on the pattern of large enterprise customers moving to multicloud environments. Many were asking for tools that were fundamentally different from what the market offered then.
“They wanted a way to make multiple things work…