Oracle Directory Services Stories

Welcome to the Oracle Directory Services Blog!

What’s your first reaction when you heard Directory Services?

Very likely, you may say: “oh, that is a mature technology and what can be interesting about that?” It is true that LDAP directory as a standard and technology is mature and widely adopted. It is also because of its wild success, LDAP directories were deployed at enterprise level, departmental level, and application level. As a result, you have too many directory silos with identities spreading everywhere. The identity silo issue is further compounded with database identity stores for similar reason. Now, you may have felt the pain points enterprises have.

The interesting and challenging question is how to enable on-demand identity services for applications in a way that is manageable. Directory consolidation is an obvious answer, but too costly, time consuming, and even impractical to do, while adding more identity stores with synchronization only further complicates the situation. Virtualization enables access to identity data anywhere and delivers quick ROI, but does not directly address the pain of managing existing infrastructure silos.

A practical approach is to architect them together – virtualization and consolidation, and that is what Oracle Directory Services offers for a complete solution. With Oracle Virtual Directory (OVD), you can unify identity data without consolidating, and reuse identity data without copying. With Oracle Internet Directory (OID), you can consolidate, store, and synchronize identity data with high scalability, availability, and security.

This blog will focus on information about Oracle Directory Services products, directory best practices, customer case studies, innovations, and industry trend.

Stay tuned.

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