{"id":3962,"date":"2015-04-07T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T16:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2015-04-07T10:57:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T16:57:03","slug":"iam-migrates-key-identity-databases-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/iam-migrates-key-identity-databases-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"IAM Migrates Key Identity Databases to the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IAM Migrates Key Identity Databases to the Cloud<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like so many areas of information technology, identity and access management can reap significant benefits by taking advantage of cloud computing \u2013 and Harvard University Information Technology\u2019s Identity and Access Management (IAM) program isn\u2019t hesitating to make the most of the new technology. The program is currently in the midst of migrating two key identity databases \u2013 known as HU-LDAP and AuthLDAP \u2013 to the Amazon Web Services cloud, with deployment slated for the end of IAM\u2019s third program planning increment on June 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Moving our LDAP databases to the cloud represents both more availability and more security,&#8221; says Magnus Bjorkman, director of IAM engineering. &#8220;What\u2019s more, this improved performance goes hand-in-hand with a significant cost savings over maintaining on-premise infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more at &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/iam.harvard.edu\/news\/iam-migrates-key-identity-databases-cloud\" title=\"IAM Migrates Key Identity Databases to the Cloud\" target=\"_blank\">IAM Migrates Key Identity Databases to the Cloud<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAM Migrates Key Identity Databases to the Cloud Like so many areas of information technology, identity and access management can reap significant benefits by taking advantage of cloud computing \u2013 and Harvard University Information Technology\u2019s Identity and Access Management (IAM) program isn\u2019t hesitating to make the most of the new technology. The program is currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,88,6],"tags":[149,188,1345],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-2","category-identity-space","category-news","tag-iam-cloud","tag-iam-migration","tag-iam-solutions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-11U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}