Centrify Continues Exceptional Growth; More than Doubles Customers Year Over Year
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SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--
Centrify Corporation, a leading provider of Microsoft Active
Directory-centric identity management solutions for Linux, UNIX and
Mac OS, today announced continuing triple-digit growth in revenue and
customers for its fiscal year ending June 30, 2008. Centrify increased
its sales into Global 2000 companies who have licensed Centrify
solutions to optimize security, comply with regulatory requirements
and increase operational efficiency. The Centrify customer base more
than doubled to over 500 organizations in all sectors and includes
implementation by 38% of the Fortune 50.
"We are quite pleased with our market traction and the
accelerating adoption of our solutions by leading organizations around
the world," said CEO Tom Kemp. "In the new fiscal year we look forward
to continuing to surpass our customers' expectations with our
comprehensive, industry-leading solutions for cross-platform identity
management, innovative technology, and second-to-none services and
support."
Recent recognition of Centrify includes Linux Magazine identifying
Centrify as one of "The top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008." In the
last year, Centrify won industry awards in several categories
including:
-- SearchEnterpriseLinux.com "Security Product of the Year,"
-- Windows IT Pro "Editors' Best Gold: Interoperability,"
-- Info Security Products Guide "Best Identity Management
Software."
During the year Centrify accomplishments included:
-- More than doubled our install base to over 500 customers,
including recent customer win Societe Generale, and grew our
install base to over 38% of Fortune 50
-- Expanded the Centrify management team, thereby increasing our
depth in engineering and broadening sales management with
executives experienced in all phases of an organization's
growth
-- Increased our market-leading platform support to over 135
flavors of UNIX, Linux and Mac OS and added new application
support such as SAP R/3
-- Extended product distribution to over 45 system integrators
and OEM partners
-- Achieved Windows Server 2008 certification
-- Sponsored industry organizations committed to solving customer
problems:
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-- MIT Kerberos Consortium to provide leadership in the
development and adoption of Kerberos to solve
authentication challenges in heterogeneous environments
-- Enterprise Desktop Alliance, which is focused on making it
easy to deploy, integrate and manage Macs in a Windows-
based environment
-- Payment Card Industry - Software Vendors Alliance Gold
sponsorship
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"With the industry's largest team devoted exclusively to
developing solutions and services that extend Active Directory to
non-Microsoft platforms, and with new solutions and major updates to
existing products to be released over the next 12 months, Centrify is
well positioned to maintain its leading industry position," added
Kemp.
About Centrify
Centrify provides auditing, access control and identity management
solutions that centrally secure an organization's heterogeneous
systems, web applications, databases and storage systems using
Microsoft Active Directory--the same authentication, authorization and
Group Policy services deployed for its Windows environment. Centrify
DirectAudit and DirectControl help organizations improve IT
efficiency, better comply with regulatory requirements, and move
toward a more secure, connected infrastructure for their
cross-platform computing environment. For more information about
Centrify and its solutions, call +1 650-961-1100 or visit
http://www.centrify.com.
Centrify and DirectControl are registered trademarks and
DirectAudit is a trademark of Centrify Corporation. Other names used
in this document are trademarks of their respective companies.
Centrify Corporation
Tom Cromelin
925-997-8459
tom.cromelin@centrify.com
Copyright Business Wire 2008
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