Posts Tagged ‘SaaS’
Will 2011 be the year of IT Management as a Service?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 19, 2011
In this article in Enterprise Systems Journal I argue that this might very well be the case. Here’s a quick excerpt: IT professionals seem to be the most conservative crowd when it comes to the cloud. While we all have been uploading our pictures to Flickr and communicating via Facebook, and our sales reps have been utilizing [...]
Chrome OS shooting for consumers or enterprise?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 14, 2010
Marco Arment from Instapaper thinks that Chrome OS will have limited appeal for consumers, will target businesses and not be well-received there due to lack of proper enterprise support and commitment. Here are a few quotes from Marco: Google’s targeting of Chrome OS is interesting. Rather than trying to attract consumers, who have demonstrated that they’re not interested in [...]
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 [...]
Time Machine for Active Directory
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 6, 2010
Cloud-based AD backup and recovery service – Quest OnDemand Recovery – just got updated allowing among other things to easily locate the whole change history for a given account throughout the whole backup history, and roll the object back to any particular moment in time. The new feature is available right from the main screen. [...]
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 [...]
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.
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