Vince Lujan

Blog – JumpCloud

Vince is a documentation and blog writer at JumpCloud, the world’s first cloud-based directory service. Vince recently graduated with a degree in professional and technical writing from the University of New Mexico, and enjoys researching new innovations in cloud architecture and infrastructure.

Most IT organizations today leverage a virtual identity bridge in one form or another to manage user access to their IT resources in the cloud. The cloud resources that often require an identity bridge of some sort can include web applications, cloud-based productivity platforms, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers, and many others ... Read More

One question that we continue to hear is whether or not you can authenticate Windows® systems with a Google® Cloud Identity. While you can leverage Google Cloud Identity to manage user access to Windows-based servers located within GCP (Google Cloud Platform), the question here is really about Windows end user ... Read More

As the IT landscape shifts to the cloud, IT admins are in search of the best directory services solution to support their growing networks. The challenge is that modern IT networks can be highly complex—leveraging an array of disparate IT resources both on-prem and in the cloud—and traditional identity provider ... Read More

Synology® is a popular provider of network attached storage (NAS) appliances. As such, IT admins often wonder how to best manage user access to Synology devices. Admins can manage Synology NAS user access on-prem with traditional directory services solutions, but many would prefer the convenience of being able to manage ... Read More

Is it possible to have one password for Office 365™ and G Suite™? As many IT organizations leverage both platforms, one from Microsoft® and the other from Google®, having a single identity that connects to both would certainly be helpful. The challenge is that they are not identical and neither ... Read More

Is is possible to manage QNAP NAS access from the cloud? As QNAP (Quality Network Appliance Provider) network attached storage (NAS) appliances grow in popularity as on-prem storage solutions, having the ability to manage NAS access remotely would be convenient. Fortunately, it is possible to manage QNAP NAS access from ... Read More

IT admins know that Microsoft® Active Directory® (AD) has been a juggernaut in the identity and access management (IAM) category since the turn of the century. More recently, however, a new generation of cloud directory services platforms have been disrupting Microsoft’s monopoly in the legacy directory services space. As a ... Read More

It seems like Okta® vs. Duo® is a knock down, drag out fight now. What seemed like a complementary relationship a few years ago would appear to be much more competitive these days. With Cisco® purchasing Duo and Okta going public, it sure does seem like a heavyweight fight between ... Read More

OpenLDAP™, as the name implies, is an open implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). As an open source directory services platform, it can be integrated with IT networks and customized to help admins manage a wide variety of LDAP-based IT resources. However, as the IT landscape continues to ... Read More

With the new macOS®, Catalina™, on the horizon, IT admins can’t help but wonder what changes the new operating system (OS) will bring with respect to identity management. As Mac® admins know, controlling user access to Mac systems has never been easy. Not only that, but Apple® isn’t totally forthcoming ... Read More