BELLEVUE, Wash. - (Business Wire) Likewise
® Software, formerly Centeris, a leader in delivering authentication and audit solutions for mixed networks, today announced that it has been named an Innovation Showcase Winner at Software 2008 along with 13 other outstanding technology companies. Barry Crist, CEO of Likewise Software will present
“Integrating the Enterprise: Alleviating the Challenges of Authenticating across Multiple Platforms
” in the Innovation Showcase Theater during the conference.
Software 2008, held April 29-30, 2008 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, provides CEOs, VPs, CIOs, venture capitalists, private equity partners, investment bankers, press and analysts an opportunity to see innovative products firsthand. The theme for Software 2008 is "Communicate, Collaborate, Innovate."
“Managing access control in a network of Linux, UNIX, Macs and Windows is critical for the enterprise,” noted MR Rangaswami, founder of Sand Hill Group, the premier destination site and resource center for members of the software industry ecosystem. “Likewise Software understands mixed environments and helps organizations improve security and demonstrate regulatory compliance. Likewise products truly support the theme of Software 2008.”
Likewise Open, recently released by Likewise Software, is an Open Source offering that provides fast and easy integration of Linux, UNIX and Mac systems—it now supports over 110 Linux, UNIX and Mac Platforms—with Microsoft’s Active Directory. Likewise Open alleviates a number of challenges that today’s organizations have with authentication across multiple platforms.
“The industry is fast adopting Likewise Open as a de facto standard,” said Barry Crist, CEO of Likewise Software. “Likewise Open will be distributed through major Linux technology partners, including Novell, Red Hat, and Canonical (Ubuntu) this month. We are evolving and our technology partners are supporting that evolution. With our latest products, administrators can now manage authentication through Microsoft Active Directory on virtually any machine.”
About Sand Hill Group
Sand Hill Group serves the $600+ billion software, services and solutions market by providing investment and management advice to emerging enterprise technology leaders. Sand Hill also owns Sandhill.com – the premier destination site and resource center for CEOs, VPs, Entrepreneurs, VCs and for members of the software industry ecosystem. Its weekly electronic newsletter is read by thousands of executives. Sand Hill produces the ‘Enterprise’ and ‘Software’ conferences for CEOs and executives in the industry and creates high-impact research reports for its constituents.
About TechWeb (Formerly CMP)
TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today, more than 10 million business technology professionals actively engage with and rely on our global face-to-face events, including Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network, Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning InformationWeek, Wall Street & Technology, TechNet and MSDN Magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance marketing, custom media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.
About Likewise Software
Likewise Software provides identity management solutions designed to improve security and operational efficiencies and help achieve regulatory compliance in mixed network environments. Likewise Open allows large organizations to securely authenticate Linux, UNIX and Mac systems with a unified directory such as Microsoft Active Directory. Likewise Enterprise includes all of the core authentication technology that comes with Likewise Open, plus world-class migration, group policy, audit and reporting modules.
Likewise Software is a Bellevue, WA-based software company funded by leading venture capital firms Ignition Partners, Intel Capital, and Trinity Ventures. Likewise has experienced management and engineering teams in place and is led by senior executives from leading technology companies such as Microsoft, F5 Networks, EMC and Mercury.
For more information, visit www.likewisesoftware.com.
Copyright (c) 2008 Likewise Software. Inc. All rights reserved. Likewise and the Likewise logo are registered trademarks of Likewise Software, Inc. Other names used herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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