IceSTORM Operating System from IceWEB Now Offers Integration with Microsoft Active Directory

IceWEB, Inc recently announced that its IceSTORM Operating System will now smoothly integrate with Microsoft (News - Alert) Active Directory, giving IT administrators an extremely quick and simple way to manage and validate user access rights for storage shares on all IceWEB unified storage systems.

In a release, Amita Potnis, Senior Research Analyst of IDC's (News - Alert) Storage Systems program, said, "Virtualized environments and cloud deployments add a layer of management complexity to an overburdened IT administrator in organizations, particularly in the mid-market. IceWEB's (News - Alert) approach was to simplify user and group access management by integrating Active Directory in its IceSTORM Operating System, thus reducing the burden of an IT organization that is juggling multiple disparate management protocols."

Active Directory is the standard system used by Microsoft for providing user and group access to assets and devices on an organizations network infrastructure. Devices like the SQL or Exchange server that operate on a Windows Operating System come standard with Microsoft Active Directory integration.

Gaurang Mehta, IceWEB's CTO, said, "Part of IceWEB's commitment to providing the absolute best unified storage system available, is identifying and removing any workflow speed bumps that cause friction in managing the ever-growing storage that IT admins must face every day. Natively integrating with Microsoft Active Directory has been one of those speed bumps left unaddressed by even the largest vendors of unified storage systems. We're happy to be the first vendor to simplify and expedite unified storage management yet again with the innovation announced today."

Till recently, most unified storage devices are unable to natively and dynamically search Active Directory mainly because most unified devices get shipped with the manufacturer's own non-Windows operating system. However, IceWEB has changed all that by customizing its software product development, thereby enabling IceSTORM to natively port Microsoft Active Directory. IT administrators will now be able to cut down the time spent as they will no longer have to manually assign users and groups with rights to write, access, and change objects in a shared directory on IceWEB's unified storage systems.