• Comparing The Compare - Quest Foglight and Toad

    To compare is to measure, estimate, or make note of two or more “ things’ “ similarities and/or differences. It helps us better understand the items. A versus B. Sometimes it is done to learn which one is ‘better’. Other times, it is to determine those…

  • Don’t Worry About Your (Con)figure, Have The PI !

    Congratulations! You have Foglight installed and it is collecting meaningful performance data. There’s no doubt it is providing a ‘smorgasbord’ of actionable information about your mission-critical environment. Help yourself to delicious servings of baseline…

  • Foglight for Virtualization: Top 5 Reports You Should be Running (but probably aren't!)

    I often find Foglight for Virtualization environments that aren't taking full advantage of all the features of Foglight. One such feature is scheduled reports. Foglight comes with dozens of out-of-the-box reports waiting to be run.

    Here is a list…

  • Integrate Foglight by Sending SNMP Traps

    Many customers ask how they might integrate Foglight Alarms into other 3rd party monitoring tools.  One way to accomplish this is to send SNMP traps in response to a Foglight alarm.

     

    To configure Foglight for this capability, you need to first download…

  • New Year, New Support Portal Interface Pages - Part 2, Top 10 user forum threads

    Continuing with my earlier blog, “With the New Year comes…” with updated Product Support Portal pages drives additional customers to self-help by interacting with their peers instead of contacting support by highlighting the most recent user…

  • New Year, New Support Portal Interface Pages - Part 1, Contact Support

    With the New Year comes with updated Contact Support Portal pages that simplify, consolidate and with an enhanced User’s Experience.

    The main target of the upgrade was to improve customer satisfaction by designing a contact support process that…

  • Licensing 101. Part 1. What is a license?

    Nothing mystifies our customers (and even some of our sales folks) more than a question that inevitably arise during our meetings: 'How is this product licensed?' or its even more frightening brethren: "How is this suite of products licensed…

  • Singapore Team Celebrates Opening of New Office Facility

    On Monday, April 9th, Quest and One Identity colleagues in Singapore celebrated the opening of our new downtown office facility. The opening represents the start of an exciting new chapter for our entire Singapore team, which moves from the legacy Dell…

  • Quest Sydney Team Gives Back to Local Foodbank

    Earlier in January, members of the Quest team in Sydney, Australia took time to give back to the community by volunteering at the local Foodbank. As a team, Quest was able to help the Foodbank division for the State of New South Wales and the Australian…

  • Quest Singapore Team Gives Back Through Soles4Souls

    The Quest Singapore team is proud to have teamed up with Soles4Souls to provide a good pair of shoes to those less fortunate. With its "Give Shoes, Give Love" initiative, Soles4Souls is an international non-profit organization that distributes new and…

  • Giving Back: Quest Sydney Team Cleans Bondi Beach

    Members of the Quest Sydney team recently took time out of their schedules to give back to the local community by doing their part to clean up Bondi Beach. The clean-up day was a massive success, with the volunteers collecting more than 30KG (!) of trash…

  • 12 Months of Page Turning

    You probably won’t get to the end of this blog post. Or will you? Many of us realize that our attention spans are getting shorter.

    In a world where our reliance on smartphones dictates our daily lives and diminishes our interest in books, many…

  • Quest Teams Come Together to Celebrate the Chinese New Year

    Back in February, Quest team members across the APJ region came together to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Our China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia offices all hosted celebrations. It was a wonderful opportunity for Quest team members to get together…

  • Women in tech - thank you.

    Here’s a few women from history that I’d to honor, because in a lot of ways they contributed to myself being where I am today – a woman in technology. I learned about of these women while reading Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena…

  • Tune Your Queries with SQL Optimizer (Pt 1)

    One of the many ways to improve database performance is to tune SQL queries running in your environment. Two primary reasons for tuning are:

    1. Minimize Response Time – End users who are interacting with data want that data as quickly as possible. It may…
  • “License and Registration, please…” Spotlight

    So, you’ve downloaded and installed an evaluation of Spotlight Enterprise. Good news…it comes with a 30-day evaluation license key! Spotlight is fully functional (not limited trial functionality). It simply expires after the 30 days. There are a couple…

  • Toad Turnpike: Real Stories from the Road

    Off-roading, Maps, and Nine Gray Hairs

    We all tend to spend most of our time on the “turnpike” of a product’s feature set: you know, the “power” set of its features that get us to many of our endpoint destinations within the product as productively as…

  • Knowledge That Benefits Us All!

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    You’re smart, we know it! Our customers are intelligent people, our employees are intelligent people, and together we are one smart organization made up of internal and external minds.

    How do we manage that knowledge and what is Knowledge Management…

  • Quest: Reduce your IT administration

    Our journey towards innovation aimed at reducing IT administration continues. We’ll deliver solutions that ensure that productivity, simplicity and value are synonymous, not exclusive.

    We'll help you manage and protect your data, take control of…

  • Quest - More Business Innovation

    We have always had a simple goal. That’s to reduce the time you spend on IT administration, so you can focus more on business innovation. As we move forward as Quest we will continue to drive innovation and support our customers in the areas of Data…

  • Go figure! @QuestSharePoint uses its own #SharePoint tools for its recent #qSharePoint migration!

    Not only do we eat our own dog food—as the saying goes, but we think it’s quite yummy too!

     

    Recently Quest Software upgraded its SharePoint platform from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 with the help of our partner Avanade and several…