{"id":2432,"date":"2012-07-02T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=2c1f4756ed2dc63b7ed077d31995eb5f"},"modified":"2012-07-02T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T14:10:00","slug":"dell-acquiring-quest-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/dell-acquiring-quest-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell Acquiring Quest Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/company\/dell\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured alignleft\" title=\"Image representing Dell as depicted in CrunchBase\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/assets\/images\/resized\/0001\/3510\/13510v1-max-250x250.jpg\" alt=\"Image representing Dell as depicted in CrunchBase\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"org fn\">Dell and Quest Software today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/questsoftware\">Dell to acquire Quest<\/a>, an IT management software provider offering a broad selection of solutions that solve the most common and most challenging IT problems. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dell recently announced the formation of its Software Group to build upon its existing software expertise. The Dell Software Group will add to Dell\u2019s enterprise solutions capability, accelerate strategic growth and further differentiate the company from competitors by increasing its solutions portfolio with Dell-owned intellectual property.<\/p>\n<p>Quest\u2019s family of software solutions and key technologies are strongly aligned with Dell\u2019s software strategy. The acquisition provides critical components to expand Dell\u2019s software capabilities in systems management, security, data protection and workspace management. In addition, Quest\u2019s software portfolio is highly complementary to Dell\u2019s scalable design approach to develop solutions that scale with customer needs. Some examples include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">The Quest One Identity and Access Management solution family adds to<br \/>\nDell\u2019s very strong set of security assets with SonicWALL and<br \/>\nSecureworks, creating a comprehensive set of security solutions to<br \/>\naddress important customer needs.<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">Quest\u2019s Performance Monitoring solutions for applications, networks<br \/>\nand databases<strong> <\/strong>address a rapidly growing need for our customers.<br \/>\nIndustry analysts have consistently ranked Quest Foglight as a leading<br \/>\napplication performance monitoring solution. Businesses of all sizes<br \/>\nare looking to reduce their IT complexity and automate workloads for<br \/>\ntheir IT departments. Customers worldwide leverage Foglight to<br \/>\ncontinually monitor their IT environments, proactively identifying and<br \/>\nremedying performance issues before they become bigger problems.<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">Quest\u2019s Windows Server Management solutions complement Dell Services\u2019<br \/>\nrapidly growing application modernization practice with recently<br \/>\nacquired Clerity Solutions and Make Technologies.<\/li>\n<li class=\"bwlistitemmargb\">Effective database management is critical to the successful operation<br \/>\nof most organizations. Quest\u2019s Database Management capabilities offer<br \/>\na strong complement to Dell\u2019s enterprise offering. Today, millions of<br \/>\nDBAs, developers, and analysts around the world rely on Quest\u2019s<br \/>\ndatabase management tools to simplify their work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quest has a diversified software portfolio and generated $857 million in global revenue based on its fiscal year 2011 results at gross margins of 86 percent and operating margins of 11 percent. Quest supports heterogeneous and next-generation virtualized environments across leading platform vendors. The addition of Quest, including its 1,500 software sales experts and 1,300 software developers, to Dell\u2019s existing software expertise in systems management, security and cloud integration, is the foundation of a $1.2 billion software business, based on annual revenue.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-11065\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Quest, established in 1987, is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif. and serves more than 100,000 customers worldwide, including 87 percent of the Fortune 500. The company has approximately 3,850 employees and operates 60 offices in 23 countries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=2743b284-64e0-4d96-afc9-110a736a702a\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AUvTiJ7ZF6DfFOyL8i__JIzz6Fw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AUvTiJ7ZF6DfFOyL8i__JIzz6Fw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AUvTiJ7ZF6DfFOyL8i__JIzz6Fw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AUvTiJ7ZF6DfFOyL8i__JIzz6Fw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/2rnTJ2HE5Oo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROUND ROCK, Texas &#038; ALISO VIEJO, Calif.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Dell and Quest Software today        announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for Dell        to acquire Quest, an award-winning IT management software provider        offering &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,139,606,607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dell","category-ma-activity","category-quest","category-sonicwall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}