Quest Software Announces Strategy and Products for Managing
Microsoft SharePoint Technologies
Product Roadmap Demonstrates Continued Focus on Expanding
Breadth and Depth in Windows Management
BELLEVUE, Wash., May 17, 2006 At the Microsoft SharePoint
Conference 2006, Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today unveiled
its product roadmap to help IT track, understand and control
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Quest has years of
experience providing innovative products to help thousands of
customers migrate to and manage Active Directory, Microsoft
Exchange Server, SQL Server, and Windows Server environments.
Capabilities to be rolled out later this year demonstrate Quests
commitment to adding value to the Microsoft platform in yet another
area.
Today, organizations are using SharePoint to exchange
business-critical information
because it is an easy form of collaboration to implement and
use. However, because there are typically limited controls in
place within collaboration environments, this freedom of
information sharing can lead to network and security problems.
Laptop Battery Until now, IT has not had a cost-effective and efficient way to
understand and control the SharePoint infrastructure in their
organizations. Quest is uniquely equipped to add value in this new
area because of its longstanding relationship with Microsoft and
strong track record in Windows infrastructure management. Quest
will apply systems management best practices and lessons learned to
help organizations get the greatest possible benefit from Microsoft
SharePoint Products and Technologies.
Author Information Liviu Asnash is a Principal Development Lead at Microsoft, and currently manages the development of Excel Services (which is part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007). level software development. In the past five years, he has worked on Microsoft Office in areas related to Business Intelligence, Excel, and Excel Services. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was the director of Research and Development at Maximal Innovative Intelligence, a software company that developed data visualization tools for Business Intelligence. Before that, critical server systems based on UNIX and Oracle technologies. Asnash holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science and an M.B.A. degree. He lives in Bellevue, Washington, with his wife and son.
Thinkpad This is a natural progression in our strategy
to enhance and extend Microsofts systems management framework, said
David Waugh, vice president, product management, Quest Software.
Quest has proven expertise in all areas of Windows Server
management, and our customers are asking Quest to apply this
expertise to help them understand and manage their ever-growing
SharePoint environments.
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Microsoft Earlier this year, Quest announced a free tool that
automatically identifies and reports on an organizations entire
SharePoint environment. There have been thousands of downloads of
Discovery Wizard for SharePoint to date.
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Laptop Computers At HP, SharePoint enables users to collaborate with others as
they generate and leverage our intellectual capital, said Kevin
Laahs, principal technology consultant, HP. As needs evolve,
effective management of the collaboration environment is required
to support this
business-critical
information.
Nor is the strategy particularly new. IBM has been a pioneer in virtualization and folds the capability into many of its product lines. In 2003, Microsoft saw the value in the virtualization software and acquired Connectix, which developed such software for both Windows and Mac systems. Perhaps the most visible virtualization company, though, has been VMware, a firm used by many large companies to virtualize their environments across a wealth of hardware and software.
Laptop Computer Quests next step in supporting Microsoft SharePoint Technologies
will be to deliver robust management and reporting capabilities.
Expected to be available in the third quarter, this SharePoint
product will provide server and site policy management and
extensive reporting. It will allow users to easily access
SharePoint native management tools and apply server and site rules
across their network.
-- IBM is a global leader in the creation, development and manufacture of cutting edge computer systems.
- Microsoft
Desktop Computer Later this year, Quest plans to offer new capabilities that will
provide an efficient and cost-effective method to migrate content
from Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folders to the SharePoint
platform, supporting organizations in making SharePoint their
collaboration platform of choice.
Notebooks In phase four of its SharePoint roadmap Quest will deliver
backup and recovery capabilities. Expected to be available early
next year, this product will include item-level content
recovery.
Lenovo Quests expertise in Active Directory and Exchange management and
migration lays the groundwork for adding value to SharePoint
Products and Technologies, said Kurt DelBene, corporate vice
president, Microsoft Office Server Group. As our customers expand
their use of Microsoft SharePoint Technologies, we are pleased to
see Quest developing the tools that help manage SharePoints
collaboration environment.
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For more information on Quests upcoming SharePoint-based products,
and to join the SharePoint discussion community, visit:
http://www.quest.com/sharepoint.
Travelstar About Quest Software, Inc.
Quest Software, Inc. delivers innovative products that help
organizations get more performance and productivity from their
applications, databases and Windows infrastructure. Through a deep
expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works
best, Quest helps more than 18,000 customers worldwide meet higher
expectations for enterprise IT. Quests Windows Management solutions
simplify, automate and secure Active Directory, Exchange and
Windows, as well as integrate Unix, Linux and Java into the managed
environment. Quest Software can be found in offices around the
globe and at www.quest.com.
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