Azure Adds Active Directory Services
Microsoft Azure keeps growing into a fuller and fuller cloud platform. The latest addition is what sounds actually like a narrow piece of function, Windows Azure Active Directory with the unfortunate acronym WAAD.
This WAAD, first shown last month in a developer preview, supports directory services such as identity management and will eventually be WAADed up into Azure itself.
New features include the ability to create cloud apps offering single log-on, and a new API that lets apps tap into WAAD data.
Posted by Doug Barney on 07/24/2012 at 12:47 PM