Carlsbad, CA-based BeyondTrust said today it has acquired software from Likewise Software of Bellevue, WA, that helps businesses bridge Linux, Unix, and Mac environments to Microsoft Active Directory. Financial terms of the deal for Likewise Open and Likewise Enterprise were not disclosed.
Likewise, an open source company that provides a platform for identity, security, and data storage, says it’s using the proceeds to accelerate its investment in its storage software business. In a statement from Likewise, CEO Barry Crist says the Bellevue software developer is “doubling down on our commitment to building out our next-generation storage platform.”
As we reported last year, BeyondTrust specializes in providing IT security for Windows-based networks by managing the access privileges granted to both system administrators and users. The company says the acquisition expands its portfolio of “inside perimeter” security capabilities for Windows and Unix-based systems to include authentication and auditing management for cross-platform and cloud environments.
BeyondTrust says it plans to re-brand and launch the products as part of a new platform, called PowerBroker Identity Services that will integrate Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix systems with Microsoft Active Directory.
BeyondTrust plans to provide continuing technical support for existing Likewise Open and Likewise Enterprise customers.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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