Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: August 27, 2009
An important milestone just got passed by Google – one of the big enterprise identity management vendors out there – Quest Software (full disclosure: I work for the company) – has added Google Apps as a directory to which they can provision identities and access. One might argue that this is a small thing considering [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 15, 2009
It’s probably about time for me to provide a quick overview of what we at Quest Software are doing in the cloud computing area. There are two main “cloud” directions for us: Using the cloud for our own offerings. Enabling public and private clouds. 1. Using Clouds Using Cloud means providing our products as a [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 10, 2009
“APaaS: A Step to a ‘Killer App’ for Cloud Computing?” is a great report by Yefim V. Natis and Eric Knipp published by Gartner last week. Yefim and Eric, as it seems to me, managed to articulate the very essence of what makes Cloud Computing so disruptive: “Easy to learn and use application development environment, [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 5, 2009
Looks like I will be presenting at Microsoft TechEd US in LA this May. I have just got notified that the session got approved. Will be my first full hour TechEd session (I was only co-presenting at previous TechEds) – so I am really looking forward to the event. Case Study: Migrating Existing Client Applications [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 10, 2008
Suppose as InfoWorld predicts the economy makes everyone look for IT outsourcing options and world goes SaaS/Cloud Computing/Hosted IT – what happens to all the infrastructure management vendors who sell a lot of software helping deploy and manage traditional on-premise systems such as AD, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, and so on? My thinking is that if [...]