Working as a team to secure and
manage database environments
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adapted a classic tale and given it an IT twist.
Behold the power of Quest’s Active Directory Heroes
Organisations across the world are changing and evolving at a quickening pace, critical IT systems can be disparate, diverse and expensive to manage. Quest have created simple-to-use, innovative IT management software that saves time and money across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
Quest offers a broad and deep selection of products that target common IT challenges, and more than 100,000 worldwide customers are enjoying the simplicity of working with Quest tools to solve so many IT management challenges.
Choose a solution:
Increase productivity and improve database performance
Automate development and database management tasks to increase productivity, optimise database performance, and reduce administrative costs. Leverage tools with built-in expertise to develop optimal application code. Monitor multiple, heterogeneous databases from a single view and analyse transactions.
Quickly identify and resolve performance issues across databases and virtual environments with Foglight. It easily integrates with existing tools, so users can monitor and analyse the data from almost any source across their infrastructure and view it through a single interface.
Foglight enables users to proactively detect, monitor, manage and resolve performance issues before they impact the business.
SharePlex for Oracle is a mature, high-performance, high-availability technology that offers a low-cost alternative to other Oracle replication tools. Unlike other solutions, SharePlex provides data compare and repair, in-flight data integrity, plus monitoring and alerting functionalities – all in one package.
Ensure peak performance of SQL Server environments with unmatched monitoring, diagnosis and optimisation around the clock. Spotlight provides access to all the details that a DBA needs to make sure that the SQL Server database is running smoothly.
Toad solutions enables Database Administrators to do their job with increased accuracy and efficiency. The Quest database tool significantly improves productivity by helping with:
Toad Edge – the next generation of Toad tooling – simplifies MySQL development and administration. It allows users to begin developing immediately using the intuitive Toad interface.
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Database development no longer has to be a bottleneck in the otherwise agile DevOps process of your customers. Quest Toad DevOps Toolkit makes it easy to execute key database development functions within the DevOps workflow, without compromising quality, performance and reliability.
Keep critical data safe with Quest application-specific data protection
Keep downtime to an absolute minimum when it comes to the critical applications organisations rely on daily, including Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, Active Directory and Oracle applications.
Archive Manager is email archiving software that captures, retains, preserves and searches for email. Archive Manager captures a single instance of each email message, applies granular retention and disposition policies and provides advanced search, ensuring efficient Exchange email archiving.
Backup & Disaster Recovery Suite offers full access to three of our most powerful data protection software applications — Rapid Recovery, NetVault Backup, and vRanger — based on your front-end backup size. You’ll never overpay for a one-size-fits-all solution with features you don’t use. Simply purchase the components you need today and add capacity as your business grows.
Quickly identify and resolve performance issues across databases and virtual environments with Foglight. It easily integrates with existing tools, so users can monitor and analyse the data from almost any source across their infrastructure and view it through a single interface.
Foglight enables users to proactively detect, monitor, manage and resolve performance issues before they impact the business.
The NetVault data protection solution simplifies data protection across physical or virtual environments and applications, helping you to easily achieve your backup and recovery SLAs, get faster return on investment and reduce the total cost of ownership for data protection.
Rapid Recovery delivers a better way to protect Windows and Linux environments with fast backup and even faster replication and recovery. Working across VMs and physical servers, on-premise or remote, it delivers protection for business-critical applications including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SharePoint. All capabilities can easily be managed via a single web-based management console.
vRanger provides backup and recovery capabilities for VMware virtual environments and physical Windows servers. Get fast, affordable and scalable protection that’s easy to use and easy to manage. vRanger supports VMware ESX and ESXi systems and can backup and restore any guest VM supported by VMware. vRanger is available in two editions: vRanger Standard Edition provides simple and fast data protection for small virtual environments and vRanger Pro adds improved scalability and disaster recovery capabilities for any size virtual or physical Windows environment.
Quest QoreStor is a software-defined secondary storage platform based on Quest’s proven DR Appliance resilient deduplication and replication technologies, which allows your customers to break free of backup appliances, accelerate backup performance, reduce storage requirements and costs, and replicate safer and faster to the cloud.
Simplify management of a wide array of systems and devices
Provisioning, deploying and managing systems do not have to be costly and time-consuming tasks. Endpoint Management solutions from Quest can help you simplify management of a diverse array of endpoint systems and devices, including desktops, laptops, servers, Chromebooks, mobile devices, virtual workspaces and even connected non-computing devices. With these solutions, users can deploy systems, manage software updates, install patches and conduct asset inventory efficiently, so IT staff can refocus on more strategic projects.
Desktop Authority centralises control over the desktop, combining into one comprehensive solution the functionality usually achieved with a combination of log on scripting, group policies, user profiles, and a variety of security solutions. By integrating configuration, inventory, reporting, patch management, anti-spyware, device lockdown, power management and remote management into a single solution, administrators can efficiently and effectively manage the desktop environment from one console, lowering the total cost of desktop ownership.
Streamline IT asset management, secure network-connected devices, and service end-user systems more efficiently. It’s all possible with the industry’s only appliance-based comprehensive endpoint systems management solution built for growing organisations.
Quickly and easily perform initial provisioning and ongoing administration of system images and driver updates across diverse hardware platforms — reducing operational costs and ensuring end user productivity. The KACE K2000 Systems Deployment Appliance automates large-scale system deployment and simplifies migrations of multiple operating systems, freeing your time to focus on other high priority projects.
Migrate, secure and manage Microsoft infrastructure
It’s time your end users optimised their IT environment and secure their Microsoft infrastructure to prepare for what’s next.
Quest’s MPM solutions help users migrate, manage and secure their data across on-premises, cloud-based and hybrid platforms.
Coexistence Manager for GroupWise helps you maintain business productivity by ensuring interoperability between GroupWise and Exchange, Exchange Online and hosted Exchange.
Coexistence Manager for Notes ensures interoperability between Notes and Exchange 2007/2010, Exchange Online and hosted Exchange. Coexistence Manager for Notes ensures the accuracy of your e-mail and calendar data, including recurring meetings and Active Mail. It also preserves end-user collaboration by synchronising directories and providing free/busy look ups between platforms.
Enterprise Reporter is a scalable solution for auditing, analysing and reporting on the configuration of Active Directory, Exchange, Windows file servers and SQL servers across the enterprise.
As one of the most robust configuration tools in your Windows infrastructure, Group Policy plays a major role in establishing a secure and compliant networking environment for your users. With Group Policy regulating everything from critical business processes and security settings to individual workstations and printers, managing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) can become time-consuming and expensive.
Award-winning GPOADmin automates critical group policy management tasks to reduce costs and eliminate manual processes. GPOADmin extends the Microsoft Group Policy Management Console so you can quickly and effectively administer GPO changes and verify and compare GPO versions over time to confirm the consistency of different GPO settings.
InTrust enables you to securely collect, store, search and analyse massive amounts of IT data from numerous data sources, systems and devices in one place. Get real-time insights into user activity for security, compliance and operational visibility. In a single view, you can discover what resources users have access to, how that access was obtained and how it was used.
Quest On Demand is a simplified SaaS-based cloud backup, recovery and policy management tool that enables users to recover Azure Active Directory (AD) and Office 365 users, attributes, groups and group memberships. It allows users to visualise the difference between backups and their live Azure AD environment as well as enforce Exchange Online policies and configurations.
Secure Copy not only copies files and folders, but also migrates NTFS permissions, file shares, file share permissions, local users and groups, and compression settings. Secure Copy’s multi-threaded high-speed architecture simplifies and shortens migration projects, together with its ability to transparently overcome file ownership problems and automatically retry unavailable files.
Secure, simple, ZeroIMPACT Microsoft platform migration and consolidation
Quest’s solutions simplify and automate migration tasks so users can finish the project faster while minimising the costs, risks and disruptions to users.
Migrator for GroupWise simplifies and accelerates the transition process and mitigates the risk of data loss. It quickly and accurately migrates your users’ email, calendars, tasks, personal address books, frequent contacts, archives, recurring meetings and more.
Empowering you to migrate efficiently and restructure your Active Directory, award winning Migration Manager for Active Directory ensures coexistence between migrated and un-migrated users. Migration Manager simplifies migration processes and integrates workflow – from pre-migration analysis through setup, object migration, resource updating and post-migration cleanup. Whether your organisation is creating directories to meet specific security regulations or undergoing an acquisition or merger, Migration Manager provides the features necessary to meet your evolving needs. Giving you the highest level of security, this innovative solution delivers enterprise-wide advantages and benefits.
Migration Manager for Exchange empowers you to restructure or consolidate your Exchange 2000/2003/2007 organisation with confidence. By synchronising Active Directory and Exchange data, including public folders, calendar information and mailbox data, Migration Manager delivers true coexistence.
Migrator for Notes to Exchange gives you fast, accurate migration and mitigates your risk of data loss. You can easily transfer email, personal address books, calendars, archives, and more. This Lotus Notes migration solution also allows you to move multiple mailboxes simultaneously.
On Demand Migration for Email enables you to securely migrate users and data to Office 365 (Exchange Online), on-premises Exchange or hosted Exchange platforms without installing or maintaining migration software.
Reporting, auditing and security for AD, Exchange, Office 365 and more
Bolster the security of your Windows server environment. Quest’s security and compliance automated solutions provide real-time visibility into administrator and user activities, plus report on server configurations and user permissions.
Compliment your governance, risk and compliance initiatives with solutions that help users achieve and prove compliance, and streamline administration for complex, growing environments.
Active Administrator, the comprehensive Active Directory solution from ScriptLogic provides administrators the ability to establish, view and enforce delegated security throughout Active Directory management, perform comprehensive Group Policy management including Group Policy reporting and Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) as well as powerful auditing and reporting of changes within Active Directory.
Active Directory Management involves the delegating, securing, configuring, managing and auditing of changes to Microsoft’s implementation of LDAP directory services for use in Windows environments. The main purpose of Active Directory is to provide central authentication and authorisation services. Active Directory has native tools for basic administration, but, lack enterprise-class management capabilities that give administrators the ability to view, audit and report on the ever-changing state of their Active Directory infrastructure.
Archive Manager is email archiving software that captures, retains, preserves and searches for email. Archive Manager captures a single instance of each email message, applies granular retention and disposition policies and provides advanced search, ensuring efficient Exchange email archiving.
Award-winning Change Auditor proactively tracks, audits, reports, and alerts on vital configuration changes in real-time and without the overhead of native auditing. You will instantly know who made what change when, where and why. Plus, get the original and current values for fast troubleshooting. You can then automatically generate intelligent, in-depth forensics for auditors and management and reduce the risks associated with day-to-day modifications.
Defender was designed to base all administration and identity management on an organisation’s existing investment in Active Directory and eliminates the costs and time involved in setting up and maintaining proprietary databases. In addition, Defender works with any OATH-compliant hardware token enabling organisations to select the most appropriate token for their users.
By leveraging an organisation’s existing investment in Active Directory and supporting multiple token vendors, Defender enables organisations to increase security and achieve and sustain compliance in a cost-effective manner.
Enterprise Reporter is a scalable solution for auditing, analysing and reporting on the configuration of Active Directory, Exchange, Windows file servers and SQL servers across the enterprise.
InTrust helps organisations achieve regulatory compliance by auditing access to critical systems and detecting inappropriate or suspicious access-related events. With this tool, you can collect, analyse, report, and generate automated real-time alerts for all relevant access-related events across your heterogeneous network.
Using this single solution to monitor access to critical systems on multiple platforms reduces the complexity of event log management, saves expensive storage administration costs, improves information assurance, mitigates risk, and helps to reduce cost and improve efficiency of security, operational and compliance reporting.
Avoid data loss and maintain business continuity with streamlined backups and disaster recovery solutions for Active Directory, Exchange and SharePoint. Facilitate efficient searches and fast email discovery and recovery of lost data from individual objects, permissions, email and files to full-disaster recovery.
Security Explorer simplifies the management of NTFS file and folder security, file shares, services, printer access, registry security and scheduled tasks, ensuring that access to privileged information is restricted on Windows servers and workstations, and playing a key role in standardising security management across the entire Windows network.
Connect users with each other and the information they need to succeed — at the office, at home or on the go. Quest Solutions for Microsoft® Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) applications can help you optimise your productivity from end user to data centre.
You can confidently partner with Quest Software to deliver Microsoft Exchange, Lync® and SharePoint® for secure and seamless access to integrated email, presence awareness, instant messaging, high-definition video conferencing, enterprise telephony and content sharing.
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