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UnboundID, a provider of real-time identity management software for cloud, mobile and social applications, unveiled the new version of its Identity Management platform, UnboundID 3.0 Suite, which offers real-time integrated identity layer needed for high-volume apps and cloud environments.

The latest release is purported to be the only management platform that has been certified VMware Ready, and users can use the version to securely synchronize and integrate multiple identity data repositories in real-time in order to satisfy high volume and mobile services requirements. The Directory Services Suite available from the company consolidates the user identity data that applications need, while centralizing control and providing a smooth, positive customer experience.

Unifying identity data from different databases and repositories in real-time is critical to delivering cloud services and new mobile applications. UnboundID and Alcatel Lucent (News - Alert) have formed a partnership to enable telecommunications providers to unlock network subscriber data such as a subscriber's location or user preferences.

The new version comes packed with features that support virtualized, cloud computing and large-scale mobile application environments and they are:

Identity Unification Enhancements: Improves bi-directional synchronization capabilities to enable data joining between any identity repository, including directories and databases and offer a centralized view of identity data;

Security and Privacy Enhancements: Security controls are now available with full entry-level encryption for all data-at-rest and customer identity data is protected more vigorously against leakage and exposure;

Real-time Extensibility: A new server-side framework has been designed for building extensions and costly changes to underlying identity infrastructure are completely avoided.

“Most customer-facing applications today rely on their own identity data stores, which creates problems for the end users accessing multiple services from the same vendor,” said Felix Gaehtgens, senior analyst at Kuppinger Cole. “With UnboundID’s suite, organizations can bring together and synchronize siloed identity information. This allows them to securely deliver existing and new customer-facing services in a much quicker way, giving those organizations a competitive edge.”

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