Flexible alarm notification helps reduce your mean time to resolution (MTTR) — New in Foglight 6.1

Foglight® by Quest® has always had robust alarm management capabilities, like the alarm templates wizard we introduced in Foglight 6.0 to simplify…

Organizations face new challenges when they use or sell cloud-based applications. This post describes three use cases that pose challenges, as well as opportunities for cost-savings and improved customer experience through database performance tuning…

The Quest Foglight Evolve Consolidation Advisor is designed to help those involved with cloud management plan future consolidations of existing environments. Those environments could exist of both virtual machines and physical servers/hosts.

The Consolidation…

Digital transformations are everywhere, and so are challenges

Digital transformation is creating many challenges for businesses including data platform diversity, IT skills gaps, cost control (especially cloud) and a more complex technical environment…

Digital transformation is everywhere

Organizations are changing fast to keep up with business demands. Digital transformation is being driven by the business, but IT (central and business-run) is making it happen. As they take on new database platforms…

Cloud migration is speeding up

Not surprisingly, cloud migration – the movement of data and applications to the cloud from on-premises hardware – has been a significant trend for several years. Approximately 80-90% of companies today have cloud operations…

Is there a database skills gap for complex hybrid IT environments?

In research published by Unisphere Research in 2020, the database professionals they surveyed responded that 84% had two or more database platforms in use and 31% had four or more. That…

As hybrid cloud becomes more prevalent, the challenges of cloud adoption and using multiple cloud platforms are compounded as complexity increases. In this blog, we’ll examine some of the major risks an organization and its leaders face when hybrid cloud…

One of the primary needs of those responsible for maintaining the health of database environments is to efficiently find poorly performing queries. Are there resource-intensive queries running? Are there long-running queries running? Who is running them…

Hey look, an Amazon Cloud!

To recap, 

Part 1 covers 'As A Service' (...aaS) options - https://www.quest.com/community/blogs/b/performance-monitoring/posts/are-your-database-implementations-becoming-a-bit-cloudy-part-1-3-part-series-aas-the-world…

In the spirit of keeping my blogs light and fun (?), the title was an attempt at that. In these interesting times (COVID-19 pandemic) and the need to stay home, I have been doing my share of yard work. It is the time of the year with lots of pollen in…

Cumulus, Stratus, Cirrus….no…not that THAT kind of CLOUDY.

The increasing number of cloud options can be confusing. With that in mind, I thought I’d ‘clear the air’ and review some of the more popular implementations.

( * This blog has been updated from last year's.... )

We have all done it. We think we know the lyrics to a song. We sing them passionately….and incorrectly. Here are a few classics.

• “Excuse me while I kiss this guy”. Correct lyric: “Excuse…

Cost Director allows you to view the cost of running your datacenter like it’s Public Cloud.

Cost Director is included in Foglight for Virtualization 8.8 and no additional license required. 

In 3 steps you will setup an organization structure, create…

Spotlight Cloud is a cloud hosted database monitoring and diagnostics application providing DBAs with diagnostic tools to quickly identify and help resolve performance issues.  The Workload Analyzer of Spotlight Cloud is a very robust query evaluator tool…

We are lucky enough to work with a number of extremely talented and passionate people. Some of our coworkers have been here for a number of years and have some great stories to tell. We wanted to use this interview as an introduction to one such individual…