Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 21, 2010
Cloud can make your environment *more* secure. A new cloud service alerts IT pros when specific events happen in their environment. For example, you might want to receive an email when a sensitive resource gets accessed, certain permissions get granted, membership for a privileged group gets changed and so on. This all is now part of the [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: September 30, 2010
Ruggero Contu has published a case study which he created after studying Quest Software‘s transition from being a pure software vendor to also a SaaS cloud-based IT management company: “Case Study: Quest Leverages Cloud Services to Introduce SaaS-Based Log Management Product” (registration required to access the page): Although new business opportunities can justify a SaaS [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: September 23, 2010
Now that our services for IT Pros: OnDemand Recovery for Active Directory and OnDemand Log Management – have been out for a couple of months, got their first customers, and demonstrated (knock on wood) 100% uptime, it seems to be the right time to start collecting feedback and give back some prizes. This is exactly what [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 22, 2010
Another online service we have just launched for IT professionals is Quest OnDemand Log Management. This is a great service for event log collection, storage and analysis. 1. All you need to do to enable it, is download and install a small event collection agent and select which event logs you want to collect, 2. [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 17, 2010
Last week was the official commercial launch of Quest OnDemand Recovery for AD – a subscription-based automated service which protects your Active Directory for a small monthly fee. Changes are good, and Active Directory – as the identity core of most companies’ IT – is always changes. However, sometimes wrong changes happen: accounts or whole [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 14, 2010
Don Fornes of Software Advice posted an interesting piece on how cloud solutions are a classic example of disruptive technology emerging from niche/small market and then growing, becoming ever more feature-rich and cost-effective and eventually starting to replace big market incumbents when it is already too late for them to compete on this redefined market. He shows [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 3, 2010
Quest has just made available technical preview of it’s just-in-time access provisioning provider. The idea is that instead of granting cloud services accounts to all your users, you set up a framework for users to request access if they need it. The demo below shows how this works for Google Apps. User tries to access [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 15, 2010
Security and data protection are key concerns for any cloud solution. I truly believe that this is also one aspect that you cannot just improve over time. No matter how agile you are security needs to be there by design. Unfortunately most cloud vendors/SaaS-providers still don’t tell enough about the way they protect customer data [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 8, 2010
Ben Riga posted a video recording with a fairly detailed discussion we had at Microsoft PDC about Quest OnDemand (Quest’s Systems Management as a Service offering): In that discussion we have covered quite a few topic which I hope you will find interesting: What is Systems Management as a Service and how it is different [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 20, 2009
Quest Connect is a big online conference put together by Quest, Microsoft, , Dell, NetApp, Vizioncore, Scriptlogic, Techrepublic, Oracle Magazine, Redmond Magazine, and The Code Project. The agenda is packed with a lot of useful material on Windows Server 2008 R2, AD, Identity Management, Exchange 2010, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, SharePoint, SQL, Oracle – see full [...]