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BeyondTrust Acquires Assets Of Likewise Software To Expand Access Management Business: Page 2 of 2

PowerBroker Identity Services provides centralized user management for Linux, Unix and Mac users, adding them to Active Directory in less than 5 minutes, BeyondTrust says. It also does not require extending Active Directory schema to add non-Windows systems to the corporate network.

BeyondTrust will also continue to offer the open source version of Identity Services, which was originally offered by Likewise. The open source version has been downloaded 100,000 times, and its community includes about 40,000 organizations that are using it and contributing code to add features, says Zierick.

"Many of [those who] have used the open product to do the basics have realized that to get the full benefits, they want to upgrade to the features that are in the enterprise product," he says.

As with existing BeyondTrust products, the PowerBroker Identity Services software offers identity and access management in traditional and cloud computing environments, although Zierick says most of the cloud activity is in private cloud environments within a corporate firewall rather than public clouds beyond the firewall.

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