Quest Software Announces the Experts Conference Europe 2011 Keynotes

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., July 21, 2011 – Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today announced keynote speakers and post-conference workshops for The Experts Conference (TEC) Europe 2011. Technology leaders focused on Active Directory, Forefront Identity Manager (FIM), Exchange, Virtualization and Cloud organizations will kick off the three-day event with a look into the future of the Microsoft technologies. TEC Europe will be held Oct. 17-19 at the InterContinental Frankfurt.

• TEC for Directory & Identity will feature a team keynote led by Samuel Devasahayam, Principal Program Manager Lead in the Identity and Access Team at Microsoft,  representing the Microsoft Identity stack.
• The TEC for Exchange conference will feature Tony Redmond, respected Exchange authority, discussing the path for Exchange administrators after the Cloud. 
• The first ever TEC Europe for Virtualization & Cloud will be kicked off by Brian Madden, an internationally known desktop virtualization expert.

In addition to the lineup of keynote speakers, TEC Europe 2011 also will feature two post-conference workshops on 19 October, delivering deep training on PKI troubleshooting as well as an advanced Exchange virtualization boot camp. Further, the event will include a PowerShell Deep Dive track, highlighted by two days of intense PowerShell training. Detailed information on TEC workshops and the PowerShell event are available at: www.theexpertsconference.com. Delegates may add workshops as they register.

“Our speaker lineup for TEC Europe promises delegates in all three conferences a one-of-a-kind training experience,” said Gil Kirkpatrick, Quest chief architect and conference founder. “We’re thrilled to bring TEC Europe back to Germany for the third year in a row. With Microsoft’s TechEd Europe moving to a new summer schedule and pushing the next event to summer of 2012, we believe TEC Europe will be the best, most advanced Microsoft training option available in EMEA this year.”

TEC Europe 2011, presented by Quest and sponsored by Microsoft, follows TEC 2011, which was held in Las Vegas, April 17-20. Registration for TEC Europe is now open. Early bird pricing, available until Aug.12, is 1000 Euros. Standard pricing is 1250 Euros until 30 September, and late pricing is 1350 Euros, effective until the start of the event. To learn more about TEC Europe 2011, and to register, please visit www.theexpertsconference.com and follow @TECconf on Twitter.

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About Quest Software, Inc.

Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT) simplifies and reduces the cost of managing IT for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Our innovative solutions make solving the toughest IT management problems easier, enabling customers to save time and money across physical, virtual and cloud environments.  For more information about Quest solutions for administration and automation, data protection, development and optimization, identity and access management, migration and consolidation, and performance monitoring, go to www.quest.com.