Posts Tagged ‘SaaS’
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 [...]
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 [...]
IT Management as a Service: Discussion and Demo
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 18, 2010
Microsoft’s TechNet EDGE posted a video with quite detailed discussion of Systems Management as a Service concept, example of such a service (Quest OnDemand), how it uses Windows Azure as the underlying technology, the security model behind it, and so on. Obviously a demo is in there as well. Check out the video here.
Cloud Service for Local SharePoint Insight
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 27, 2010
A new (free!) service became publicly available on Quest OnDemand – Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint Reports. This is a great free service which provides some pretty neat reports on your intranet SharePoint environment. You go to the site and it launches a nice Silverlight client. Then all you need to do is provide a [...]
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 [...]
Windows 7 – Microsoft’s First Step to the Cloud
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 13, 2009
Pundits talking about how Windows 7 is all about Microsoft competing against Apple, recovering with Vista consumer adoption disaster, or getting people off of XP, are missing one other – extremely important – part of the Windows 7 story. Windows 7 and its server counterpart – Windows Server 2008 R2 – are actually the first [...]
Quest Software and the Clouds
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 [...]
SaaS growing fast in Asia/Pacific
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 1, 2009
- In: Analysts
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You’d think that after all the news of China blocking Google and other web sites Software-as-a-Service and cloud computing would be the worst software delivery model you would imagine? Customer survey on SaaS Gartner conducted in November 2008 has shown that Asia/Pacific region is getting ahead of North America and Europe in SaaS adoption. Their [...]
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