I’m excited to report that Gartner has named Quest as an example vendor in multiple areas in its 2022 report, “IAM Best Practices for Active Directory”*! In fact, Quest and our company One Identity are listed as an example vendor in eleven of the categories…

In a related blog post, I revealed that Quest was named as an Example vendor in multiple categories in the 2022 Gartner® report, “Implement IAM Best Practices for Your Active Directory.”¹ In fact, Quest or One Identity was listed as an…

As a member of a data protection, disaster recovery or storage management team in an enterprise IT organization, you already know how exponential data growth makes your job more difficult.

Even with data deduplication solutions to help reduce storage…

In an earlier blog post, I detailed why you need to be prepared to perform a phased recovery in case of a complete Active Directory disaster: By ensuring you can quickly restore at least one domain controller in each domain (phase 1), you can get your…

Choosing the right Active Directory backup methodology is crucial for a successful disaster recovery plan. There are three primary ways to back up Active Directory:

• Active Directory backups — Active Directory backups are the cornerstone of recovery at…

When Active Directory (AD) goes down, it’s the same as the electricity going off – productivity stops. Active Directory is the single authoritative source of users within your organizations and controls access to mission-critical business applications…

For the longest time deduplicating data has been limited to the data center, stuck on proprietary hardware, with proprietary HDDs and has had the promise of being simple and easy. Further ignoring the changing technology landscape, deduplication appliances…

Announcing Quest Rapid Recovery 6.2 is now available

As all technologies evolve and change, Rapid Recovery evolves to keep pace — and to keep them better protected. Based on valuable customer and partner feedback, Quest is proud to announce Rapid Recovery…

The NetVault 11.4 release is right around the corner, so we want to give you a preview of some of the enhancements and new features it has to offer!

Here is a list of some of the highlighted features below:

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First off, It has been…

"Save early, save often" has been sage advice passed down from one generation of computer users to the next since we began using these machines. As they have come to store more and more data and become even more integrated and ingrained in our lives…

As you may have seen, our friends at Bocada today announced that Vision, their new solution focused on managing the complexities of backup and recovery in virtual environments, now supports vRanger®, Quest’s market-leading, vSphere 5 certified…

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One of the more interesting storage improvements in recent years was the addition of deduplication to what was traditionally “just plain storage”. Deduplication makes better use of storage by reducing the amount of duplicate information…

I get asked this question a lot. What is AppAssure? Since I won't be at the Dell User Forum this year, I thought I'd write out what I usually tell people when I'm asked to explain about what AppAssure does. This is going to be the first in…

If you are an MSP looking for the next service to add to your portfolio, I recommend that you look at backup and recovery services. Cloud services are gaining mainstream adoption as more become available from local and regional providers. IDC research…

Having worked in support for many many years, you find yourself asking the same question over and over again. Have you turned it on and off again – Sorry could resist.

The question you should ask is – Have you a latest backup of the system before…