mindfulmonkey
VR will change that at some point. Even in today's infancy, there are some VR apps that give you that sense of presence with all the other tools needed and then some (whiteboards, screen-sharing, projecting your desktop on a huge screen, etc...)
VM/Containers allow people to develop and structure the app however they want, largely decoupled from deployment/infra.
I don't understand how many people have no issue being told to rewrite your apps so they fit inside lambdas...
Really big companies will often have multiple AD/LDAP identity stores with enterprise grade provisioning systems (Sailpoint, Oracle Identity Manager) to keep accounts in sync.
This offering from Google is meant as a replacement for AD/Exchange(obviously) for companies that are mid-small. It also offers provisioning to other apps but only those that support SAML Just-In-Time provisioning. I did not immediately see a way to add custom apps to this (for provisioning), so might be limited to just the OOTB apps they provide (List: https://support.google.com/cloudidentity/topic/7661972)
Auth0 today offers SAML integrations and if the target system supports JIT Provisioning, it will work the same as google.
And just to clarify, Google's offering is 100% meant for internal users (employees, anyone that you'd give a Google Apps account to)
... and all it would take is one rogue (or unaware) agent to plug in a USB stick somewhere and it's game over..