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Google Cloud acquires Bitium
- oellegaard 9y agoOh no :-( Was super happy to use it - I guess we have to start looking for an alternative before google turns it off or requires a Google Apps account to use it.
- tptacek 9y agoWhat did you like about it? What alternatives did you consider? (I'm super interested in IDPs right now).
- oellegaard 9y agoEasy to use, many integrations, great design. We chose it over OneLogin which we used before.
- tptacek 9y agoWere you using it mostly for your internal apps or mostly to give everyone access to third party apps? What was good about the design? I'm very familiar with OneLogin and Okta but not at all familiar with Bitium.
- avenoir 9y agoI've not heard of Bitium, but we're super happy with Auth0.
- tptacek 9y agoSame questions.
- jjeaff 9y agoI don't think they are the same at all. Bitium is a single sign on solution for Enterprise. Your employee creates a bitium account and then you Grant access to their bitium account to all the necessary services. Like AWS, Dropbox, whatever. Allows you to automate the onboarding process and also easily manage and cut off access to employees when they leave the company. I actually haven't used it myself. But I was in the same accelerator as them a few years ago in LA.
- saganus 9y agoWhat is IDPs in this context? I found "Intrusion Detection and Prevention System" but I don't think that's it.
- lvh 9y agoIdP == Identity Provider. A thing that knows what accounts exist, and how to authenticate for them. Contrast: RP (relying party), which needs the IdP to identify who someone is. Your IdP can be, like, GSuite auth. RP can be any app that believes GSuite when it makes assertions about who you are, via OpenID Connect or SAML.
- saganus 9y agoAh. That makes more sense. I knew it had something to do with authentication providers somehow... but I just missed it. Thanks!
- kyrra 9y agoI have no clue the intent of this buy, but Google Cloud does have an IAM feature today[0]. I'd bet they are looking to pull in talent to help improve that feature, or maybe to make the IAM more than just IAM and handle all the things that Bitium does today. You have to remember that Google Cloud also has bought StackDriver and Firebase and continues to grow those products. (disclaimer: Google employee that wishes he worked on cloud) [0] https://cloud.google.com/iam/ https://cloud.google.com/iam/
- vgt 9y agoand Kaggle and api.ai and apigee and Qwiklabs and Orbitera and Anvato and you get the point :)
- arunpn123 9y agoApologies for taking it offtopic, but can't you just move internally?
- kyrra 9y agoLateral movement here is really easy. But I'm at a smaller Google office, which limits the options I have for other teams without moving to a different location. EDIT: I ranked location over product area when I picked where to interview, and I'm still happy with my choice. I ended up in payments, which I was not thrilled about when I started, but I've come to enjoy it. There are lots of technical challenges when you are dealing with the payment volume Google moves.
- johansch 9y agoSo.. what are they buying here? People, tech or partner relationships?
- vpol 9y agoSouls of the customers.
- johansch 9y agoDo they have a large enough amount of customers for that to be significant? (leaving judgements aside for a moment)
- sheeshkebab 9y agoNot the tech, that’s for sure (unless you count a rails app as tech)
- pinewurst 9y agoI'm curious if employees of Google acquisitions (real ones not acquihires) are thrilled or just worried about having to audition to a room of Googlers to keep their jobs?
- euyyn 9y ago> auditioning in front of a room of Damores What do you mean by this? I'm having trouble picturing what you refer to.
- yahna 9y agoLets say I'm a senior engineer at a successful startup. I helped build most of the services we have, I know the technology and I know the product. I'm good at my job. We get acquired by google. I now have to jump through the notorious google interview process to essentially keep the job I already know I can do.
- dguaraglia 9y agoFrom my own personal experience through a Google acquisition: you don't need to go through the interview process. We got calibrated to Google's system, and after that we were as able to move around as any other "real" Google engineer (read: people who went through the interview process.) Mind you, YMMV depending on division you get acquired into and your position.
- euyyn 9y agoIn addition to what /u/dguaraglia said, Google interviews are nothing like auditioning in front of a room of people, much less "Damores".
- wolco 9y agoAt least your options vested.
- exikyut 9y agoOuch.
- jazoom 9y agoFor those who (like me) don't know this company: "Google Cloud announced today that it has acquired Bitium, a company that focused on offering enterprise-grade identity management and access tools, such as single-sign on, for cloud-based applications."
- sidcool 9y agoSo something similar to Okta it seems.
- ianamartin 9y agoI hope it’s better than okta in terms of integration and usability. I really really hate okta.
- SEJeff 9y agoJust want to leave a shoutout for CoreOS's dex[1] identity provider. If you need to hook up kubernetes or (any app that speaks oauth2) with SSO and get pluggable backends, I had it working with $EMPLOYER's LDAP infrastructure in 10 minutes. It also works well with bit.ly's OSS oauth2_proxy[2]. [1] http://github.com/coreos/dex [2] https://github.com/bitly/oauth2_proxy
- biot 9y agoClickable links: [1] http://github.com/coreos/dex http://github.com/coreos/dex [2] https://github.com/bitly/oauth2_proxy https://github.com/bitly/oauth2_proxy
- heliosAtwork 9y agoKeycloak from Redhat is also pretty good: http://www.keycloak.org/ http://www.keycloak.org/ https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak
- Double_a_92 9y agoThank God it doesn't have to do anything with Bitcoins!
- mlnj 9y agoThats the first thing that came to mind.