Quest Software
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Quest Software is a computer software
manufacturer headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California
. Founded in 1987, Quest develops, manufactures and supports software used by Information Technology
(IT) professionals in a variety of industries. Although the company may be best known as the maker of TOAD
, a popular product used by database professionals, it offers other products that develop, manage, monitor and protect packaged and custom software applications, as well as associated software infrastructure
components, such as databases, application servers, operating systems and hypervisors. The company has a reputation for following IT spending trends and investing in technology areas such as virtualization
, cloud automation and backup and recovery.
Quest has a worldwide presence, with more than 60 offices in 23 countries. The company reports a customer base of more than 100,000.
As of December 2010, Quest had 3,503 full-time employees worldwide and annual revenues of $767 million.
Quest sells its products and services through its direct sales organization as well as through a variety of partners and resellers worldwide.
, Java EE and Microsoft .NET market spaces. Quest was recognized as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant
for Application Performance Monitoring in 2010.
Database management tools include support for MySQL
, SQL Server
, DB2
, Sybase
, and Oracle
. The company's well-known TOAD
product is also now available for Cloud
and NoSQL
databases.
In the Windows infrastructure management arena, products cater to Active Directory
, Exchange
, SharePoint, Microsoft Windows
, and System Center users.
The company also offers products to manage virtualized environments, including desktop virtualization
, server virtualization and cloud
automation tools.
The company divides its products into six solution areas:
1995 – Vinny Smith joined the company, which at the time had 35 employees and $9.5 million in revenue.
1996 – Quest entered the database management market with an Oracle SQL database tuning
product;
1997 – Quest expanded beyond North America by opening an office in the United Kingdom
.
1998 – Current CEO Doug Garn joined Quest as the vice president of sales. Quest also added offices in Germany
and Australia
. Smith became CEO.
1999 - On August 13, 1999, Quest Software went public. The company also entered the application change management market by acquiring Stat.
2000 – Quest expanded further into application management by acquiring Foglight, a monitoring product; and continued the global expansion with new offices in France
and the Netherlands
. At the end of 2000, the company had 1,400 employees and $167 million in revenue.
2001 – Quest entered the Microsoft
management market by acquiring Fastlane Technologies
, and broadened its database offerings beyond Oracle with a new product for the IBM DB2
database.
2002 – Quest opened an office in Japan
and expanded their application management offerings to custom web applications written in Java with the acquisition of Sitraka.
2003 – Quest officially entered the Microsoft SQL Server
market, and IDC named Quest #1 in distributed database management software.
2004 – The company expanded its Microsoft infrastructure management capabilities by acquiring Aelita Software
, and won Microsoft's prestigious Global ISV of the Year award for the first time. Gartner
also named Quest #1 in Application Management. 2004 also saw Quest expand operations in Asia with new offices in Singapore
, Korea
and China
.
2005 – Doug Garn became president of Quest. The company acquired Imceda Software that year to add SQL Server backup and recovery capabilities, and Vintela for identity management
. At the end of 2005, Quest had 2,750 employees worldwide and revenues of $476 million.
2006 – The company entered the Microsoft SharePoint
market. Quest acquired ScriptLogic
, which provided a solid entry into the small-to-medium sized business market. This year also saw Quest ranked #1 by Gartner for application management in North America, and #1 in Database Development and Management by IDC.
2007 – Quest received Microsoft's Global ISV of the Year award for the second time. 3 The company also begin its focus on virtualization
by acquiring Provision Networks, a desktop virtualization
management company.
2008 – Doug Garn became CEO and president, and Vinny Smith became executive chairman. Quest purchased Vizioncore as an entry into the server virtualization market.
2009 – Alan Fudge becomes vice president of sales, and Quest acquired PacketTrap
for network monitoring.
2010 – The company acquired Voelcker to round out their identity management
offerings. Quest continued building out its virtualization
business and also entered the private cloud automation market by acquiring Surgient. Quest was also ranked in the leaders' quadrant by Gartner for application performance monitoring. Revenues were $767 million at the end of 2010, and the company counted approximately 3,500 employees.
2011 – Quest acquired BakBone Software, e-DMZ, RemoteScan, Symlabs,ChangeBASE, and VKernel
.
Quest also has an active charity program where the company contributes funding to organizations and causes that its employees nominate. This program was started in 2007 and to date has contributed to charities worldwide. The company's goal is to maximize the impact of its' employees' charitable contributions.
Computer software
Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....
manufacturer headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California
Aliso Viejo, California
Aliso Viejo is a city in Orange County, California. It had a population of 47,823 as of the 2010 census, up from 40,166 as of the 2000 census. It became Orange County's 34th city on July 1, 2001, the only city in the county to incorporate since 2000...
. Founded in 1987, Quest develops, manufactures and supports software used by Information Technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
(IT) professionals in a variety of industries. Although the company may be best known as the maker of TOAD
TOAD (software)
Toad is a software application from Quest Software used for development and administration of various relational databases using SQL.- Supported databases and environments :...
, a popular product used by database professionals, it offers other products that develop, manage, monitor and protect packaged and custom software applications, as well as associated software infrastructure
Infrastructure
Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function...
components, such as databases, application servers, operating systems and hypervisors. The company has a reputation for following IT spending trends and investing in technology areas such as virtualization
Virtualization
Virtualization, in computing, is the creation of a virtual version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, a storage device or network resources....
, cloud automation and backup and recovery.
Quest has a worldwide presence, with more than 60 offices in 23 countries. The company reports a customer base of more than 100,000.
As of December 2010, Quest had 3,503 full-time employees worldwide and annual revenues of $767 million.
Quest sells its products and services through its direct sales organization as well as through a variety of partners and resellers worldwide.
Key Partners
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- HP
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Products
Quest offers products for application management, database management, Microsoft Windows management (including Active Directory, Exchange and SharePoint) and Virtualization Management (including desktop virtualization, server virtualization and cloud automation). Quest's application management products focus in the ERPEnterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...
, Java EE and Microsoft .NET market spaces. Quest was recognized as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant
Magic Quadrant
The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner Inc., a US based research and advisory firm. According to Gartner, the Magic Quadrant aims to provide a qualitative analysis into a market and its direction, maturity and participants, thus possibly enabling a company...
for Application Performance Monitoring in 2010.
Database management tools include support for MySQL
MySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
, SQL Server
SQL Server
SQL Server may refer to:* Any database server that implements the Structured Query Language* Microsoft SQL Server, a relational database server from Microsoft* Sybase SQL Server, a relational database server developed by Sybase...
, DB2
IBM DB2
The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions...
, Sybase
Sybase
Sybase, an SAP company, is an enterprise software and services company offering software to manage, analyze, and mobilize information, using relational databases, analytics and data warehousing solutions and mobile applications development platforms....
, and Oracle
Oracle Database
The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....
. The company's well-known TOAD
TOAD (software)
Toad is a software application from Quest Software used for development and administration of various relational databases using SQL.- Supported databases and environments :...
product is also now available for Cloud
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
and NoSQL
Nosql
In computing, NoSQL is a broad class of database management systems that differ from the classic model of the relational database management system in some significant ways. These data stores may not require fixed table schemas, usually avoid join operations, and typically scale horizontally...
databases.
In the Windows infrastructure management arena, products cater to Active Directory
Active Directory
Active Directory is a directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. It is included in most Windows Server operating systems. Server computers on which Active Directory is running are called domain controllers....
, Exchange
Microsoft Exchange Client
Microsoft Exchange Client was a multi-purpose messaging product useful for managing e-mail. It was the native and bundled client for Microsoft Exchange Server up to version 5.0, later superseded by Microsoft Outlook....
, SharePoint, Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
, and System Center users.
The company also offers products to manage virtualized environments, including desktop virtualization
Desktop virtualization
Desktop virtualization , as a concept, separates a personal computer desktop environment from a physical machine using the client–server model of computing....
, server virtualization and cloud
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
automation tools.
The company divides its products into six solution areas:
- Identity and access management
- Data protection
- Administration and automation
- Performance monitoring and management
- Migration and consolidation
- Development and optimization
History
1987 – Quest Software was founded in Newport Beach, California with a line of high availability and middleware products for HP Multi-Programming Executive (MPE).1995 – Vinny Smith joined the company, which at the time had 35 employees and $9.5 million in revenue.
1996 – Quest entered the database management market with an Oracle SQL database tuning
Database tuning
Database tuning describes a group of activities used to optimize and homogenize the performance of a database. It usually overlaps with query tuning, but refers to design of the database files, selection of the database management system , operating system and CPU the DBMS runs on.The goal is to...
product;
1997 – Quest expanded beyond North America by opening an office in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
.
1998 – Current CEO Doug Garn joined Quest as the vice president of sales. Quest also added offices in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Smith became CEO.
1999 - On August 13, 1999, Quest Software went public. The company also entered the application change management market by acquiring Stat.
2000 – Quest expanded further into application management by acquiring Foglight, a monitoring product; and continued the global expansion with new offices in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
. At the end of 2000, the company had 1,400 employees and $167 million in revenue.
2001 – Quest entered the Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
management market by acquiring Fastlane Technologies
FastLane Technologies
FastLane Technologies, Inc was a small Canadian software company originally based in Ottawa, Ontario. On June 29, 2000, it was purchased by US-based Quest Software for $100 million USD....
, and broadened its database offerings beyond Oracle with a new product for the IBM DB2
IBM DB2
The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions...
database.
2002 – Quest opened an office in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and expanded their application management offerings to custom web applications written in Java with the acquisition of Sitraka.
2003 – Quest officially entered the Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...
market, and IDC named Quest #1 in distributed database management software.
2004 – The company expanded its Microsoft infrastructure management capabilities by acquiring Aelita Software
Aelita Software Corporation
Aelita Software Corporation is a software company providing a comprehensive set of enterprise network management tools that deliver improved security, usability, and control. Aelita has developed solutions for Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003 migration and domain reconfiguration, security analysis,...
, and won Microsoft's prestigious Global ISV of the Year award for the first time. Gartner
Gartner
Gartner, Inc. is an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. It was known as GartnerGroup until 2001....
also named Quest #1 in Application Management. 2004 also saw Quest expand operations in Asia with new offices in Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, Korea
Korea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
and China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
.
2005 – Doug Garn became president of Quest. The company acquired Imceda Software that year to add SQL Server backup and recovery capabilities, and Vintela for identity management
Identity management
Identity management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to the resources in that system by placing restrictions on the established identities of the individuals.Identity management is multidisciplinary and covers many...
. At the end of 2005, Quest had 2,750 employees worldwide and revenues of $476 million.
2006 – The company entered the Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint is a web application platform developed by Microsoft. First launched in 2001, SharePoint is typically associated with web content management and document management systems, but it is actually a much broader platform of web technologies, capable of being configured into a wide...
market. Quest acquired ScriptLogic
Scriptlogic
ScriptLogic Corporation is a software manufacturer of network administration products for Microsoft Windows-based networks. ScriptLogic’s suite of desktop, server, and Active Directory management products allow network administrators to remotely manage network-connected desktop PCs and servers to...
, which provided a solid entry into the small-to-medium sized business market. This year also saw Quest ranked #1 by Gartner for application management in North America, and #1 in Database Development and Management by IDC.
2007 – Quest received Microsoft's Global ISV of the Year award for the second time. 3 The company also begin its focus on virtualization
Virtualization
Virtualization, in computing, is the creation of a virtual version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, a storage device or network resources....
by acquiring Provision Networks, a desktop virtualization
Desktop virtualization
Desktop virtualization , as a concept, separates a personal computer desktop environment from a physical machine using the client–server model of computing....
management company.
2008 – Doug Garn became CEO and president, and Vinny Smith became executive chairman. Quest purchased Vizioncore as an entry into the server virtualization market.
2009 – Alan Fudge becomes vice president of sales, and Quest acquired PacketTrap
PacketTrap
PacketTrap provides network management and traffic analysis software for midsize companies. PacketTrap has offices in Silicon Valley and Calcutta, India.- History :...
for network monitoring.
2010 – The company acquired Voelcker to round out their identity management
Identity management
Identity management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to the resources in that system by placing restrictions on the established identities of the individuals.Identity management is multidisciplinary and covers many...
offerings. Quest continued building out its virtualization
Virtualization
Virtualization, in computing, is the creation of a virtual version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, a storage device or network resources....
business and also entered the private cloud automation market by acquiring Surgient. Quest was also ranked in the leaders' quadrant by Gartner for application performance monitoring. Revenues were $767 million at the end of 2010, and the company counted approximately 3,500 employees.
2011 – Quest acquired BakBone Software, e-DMZ, RemoteScan, Symlabs,ChangeBASE, and VKernel
VKernel
VKernel Corporation, is a provider of performance and capacity management products for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized infrastructures. VKernel makes virtualization management software to simplify the tasks of planning, monitoring and predicting capacity utilization and performance...
.
Acquisitions
In addition to internal product development, Quest strengthens its product offerings by acquiring small companies with innovative products and people. The company has acquired several companies since 1998:- VKernelVKernelVKernel Corporation, is a provider of performance and capacity management products for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized infrastructures. VKernel makes virtualization management software to simplify the tasks of planning, monitoring and predicting capacity utilization and performance...
(November 2011) - ChangeBASE (November 2011)
- Symlabs (June 2011)
- RemoteScan (May 2011)
- BakBone (January 2011)
- Surgient (August 2010)
- Voelcker Informatik AG (July 2010)
- PacketTrap (December 2009)
- NetPro (September 2008)
- PassGo (January 2008)
- Vizioncore (December 2007)
- Provision Networks (November 2007)
- ScriptLogic (August 2007)
- Magnum Technologies (May 2007)
- Aftermail (January 2006)
- Vintela (July 2005)
- Imceda (May 2005)
- Wingra (January 2005)
- Aelita (March 2004)
- Sitraka (November 2002)
- BB4 Technologies (February 2002)
- FastLane Technologies (September 2000)
- MessageWise (April 2000)
- Client/Server Solutions (April 2000)
- QMaster (February 2000)
- Foglight (January 2000)
- Neptune Software (July 1999)
- T.O.A.D. (October 1998)
Company Culture
Employees enjoy a casual, flexible workplace where they are encouraged to pursue innovation and simplicity in product design and customer relationships. Quest has twice been recognized in the "Top Workplaces in Orange County" list awarded by the Orange County Register (2009 and 2010).Quest also has an active charity program where the company contributes funding to organizations and causes that its employees nominate. This program was started in 2007 and to date has contributed to charities worldwide. The company's goal is to maximize the impact of its' employees' charitable contributions.
External links
- Quest Software headquarters in Aliso Viejo, CaliforniaAliso Viejo, CaliforniaAliso Viejo is a city in Orange County, California. It had a population of 47,823 as of the 2010 census, up from 40,166 as of the 2000 census. It became Orange County's 34th city on July 1, 2001, the only city in the county to incorporate since 2000...
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