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Cloud with an eagle eye

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 [...]

Gartner case study on transition from software to services

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 [...]

Provide feedback on Quest OnDemand – get an iPad

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 [...]

Event Log Management in the Cloud

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. [...]

Secure Cloud Backup for Active Directory

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 [...]

Does SaaS Dilemma apply to IT management?

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 [...]

Just-in-time Google Apps Provisioning

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 [...]

Case-Study on Secure SaaS

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 [...]

Details on Quest OnDemand

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 [...]

Cloud and BPOS sessions at Oct 21 Virtual Tradeshow

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 [...]


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  • The Jelastic Spotlight May 25, 2012
    We are starting something new here on the blog for Fridays. Up until now, we were doing more light-hearted stuff but as we were sitting around talking about the different sweet apps that you, our customers, are deploying, we realized that we should be showcasing the apps and the developers! So, as of today, Fridays [...]
  • Remote Access to MySQL in Jelastic: Import/Export Dump Files in a Few Minutes May 24, 2012
    Recently, we told you about that another cool feature that you have access to in the commercial version of Jelastic, Public IPv4. With a single click you access to a number of cool new capabilities. One of the most important opportunity you get with this feature is the ability to work with your databases remotely and [...]
  • The Jelastic Newsletter – May 23, 2012 May 23, 2012
    Java 7 adoption, Commercial releases in Europe and Russia and Software stack market share. . . The Jelastic newsletter is a weekly round-up of news, how-to’s and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week: Commercial Releases in Europe and Russia As we continue to grow and add partners, we are happy to say that, as of yes […]
  • We are now available commercially in Europe! May 22, 2012
    In partnership with dogado, we are now available commercially in Germany The last few weeks have been hectic here at Jelastic! We launched commercially in the US with ServInt; then we did the same in Russian with Rusonyx; and now we have launched commercially in Europe with Germany. Now in Europe Our commercial release with [...]
  • Software stacks market share: May 2012 May 21, 2012
    Every month we share stats on the usage and popularity of different software stacks within Jelastic PaaS with you. This month it’s even more interesting, because the scope of our stats has grown: we have a new hosting partner in Russia, Rusonyx. So, let’s check out the stats on databases, servers and JVMs for May and analyze the differences betwe […]
  • Geek Project of the Day May 18, 2012
    Just in time for the weekend. Here is your geek project of the day. Because sometimes, a regular grill is not enough. We want one. Going to “borrow” a friend’s car and turn it into a grill.
  • Jelastic announces the commercial availability of its Java cloud hosting platform with Rusonyx May 17, 2012
    Rusonyx’s Jelastic offering provides Cloud Java hosting with no lock-in or code changes required PALO ALTO, Ca. – Jelastic, the world’s first standards-based Platform-as-a-Service, today announced its commercial availability in Russia through its partner, Rusonyx, one of Russia’s leading web hosting service providers. Rusonyx is the exclusive provider […]

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