Quest Software, also known as Quest, is a software company headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California with more than 50 offices in 24 countries. Founded in 1987, Quest's software solutions simplify IT management for more than 100,000 small and medium sized enterprise organizations worldwide.
The company is known for Toad, a product used by database professionals, in addition to other offerings for Microsoft Azure cloud management, software as a service, security, workforce mobility, data-driven insight, and backup and recovery.
Quest Software was acquired by Dell in 2012, for $2.36 billion to form the Dell Software. On June 2016, Dell announced the sale of their software division, including the Quest business, to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management Corporation. On October 31, 2016, the sale was finalized.
On November 1, 2016, the sale of Dell Software to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management was completed and the company re-launched as Quest Software.
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History
Quest Software (QSFT) - 1987 to 2012
1987 - Quest Software was founded in Newport Beach, California with a line of high availability and middleware products for HP Multi-Programming Executive (MPE).
1995 - Vincent C. Smith (also known as Vinny Smith) joined the company, which at the time had 35 employees and $9.5 million in revenue.
1996 - Quest entered the database management market with an Oracle SQL database tuning product.
1997 - Quest expanded beyond North America by opening an office in the United Kingdom.
1998 - Doug Garn joined Quest as the vice president of sales. Quest also added offices in Germany and Australia. Smith became CEO. On October of 1998, Quest acquired TOAD.
1999 - On August 13, 1999, Quest Software went public. The company also entered the application change management market by acquiring Stat.
2000 - Quest expanded further into application management by acquiring Foglight, a monitoring product; and continued the global expansion with new offices in France and the Netherlands. At the end of 2000, the company had 1,400 employees and $167 million in revenue. Quest entered the Microsoft management market by acquiring Fastlane Technologies, and broadened its database offerings beyond Oracle with a new product for the IBM DB2 database.
2002 - Quest opened an office in Japan and expanded their application management offerings to custom web applications written in Java with the acquisition of Sitraka.
2003 - Quest officially entered the Microsoft SQL Server market, and IDC named Quest #1 in distributed database management software.
2004 - The company expanded its Microsoft infrastructure management capabilities by acquiring Aelita Software, and won Microsoft's prestigious Global ISV of the Year award for the first time. Gartner also named Quest #1 in Application Management. In 2004, Quest expanded operations in Asia with new offices in Singapore, Korea and China.
2005 - Doug Garn became president of Quest. The company acquired Imceda Software that year to add SQL Server backup and recovery capabilities, and Vintela for identity management. At the end of 2005, Quest had 2,750 employees worldwide and revenues of $476 million.
2006 - The company entered the Microsoft SharePoint market. Quest acquired ScriptLogic, which provided a solid entry into the small-to-medium-sized business market. Quest also acquired Charonware s.r.o from the Czech Republic, the makers of CASE Studio2, and folded it into the TOAD Data Modeler product. This year also saw Quest ranked #1 by Gartner for application management in North America, and #1 in Database Development and Management by IDC.
2007 - Quest received Microsoft's Global ISV of the Year award for the second time. The company also begin its focus on virtualization by acquiring Provision Networks, a desktop virtualization management company.
2008 - Doug Garn became CEO and president, and Vinny Smith became executive chairman. Quest purchased Vizioncore as an entry into the server virtualization market. Quest also purchased PassGo Technologies.
2009 - Alan Fudge becomes vice president of sales, and Quest acquired PacketTrap for network monitoring.
2010 - The company acquired Voelcker to round out their identity management offerings. Quest continued building out its virtualization business and also entered the private cloud automation market by acquiring Surgient. Quest was also ranked in the leaders' quadrant by Gartner for application performance monitoring. Revenues were $767 million at the end of 2010, and the company counted approximately 3,500 employees.
2011 - Quest acquired BakBone Software, e-DMZ, RemoteScan, Symlabs, ChangeBASE, vKernel and BiTKOO. Vinny Smith became CEO and Chairman, and Doug Garn became Vice Chairman.
Dell Software - 2012 to 2016
2012 - On Friday September 28, 2012, Dell announced that it has completed the acquisition of Quest Software.
On March 5, 2012, John Swainson became president of Dell Software. Previously, Swainson was Senior Advisor to Silver Lake Partners, a global private equity firm. Prior to Silver Lake, he was CEO and director of CA Inc., from early 2005 through 2009.
The purpose of forming the new group was to build on Dell's software capabilities in systems management, security, data protection and workspace management, and provide more competitive server, storage, networking and end user computing solutions and services.
In 2012, Dell announced the acquisition completion of SonicWALL, a network security business, and AppAssure, a security software maker.
Quest - 2016 to present
2016 - On November 1, 2016, the sale of Dell Software to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management was completed and the company re-launched as Quest Software, known in the marketplace as Quest.
2017 - On June 1, 2017, One Identity announced as independent brand but still remains part of the Quest family of businesses. One Identity solutions consist of Identity Governance, Access Management, and Privilege Management.
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Company Overview
Headquarters and Key Locations
Quest Software is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, and is a global company. A few key location around the globe are: Columbus, Ohio; Cork, Ireland; Zhuhai, China; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
History of Quest Brand
- 1987-2012: First Quest Software (QSFT) logo
- 2012-2016: Dell Software logo
- 2016-present: New Quest Software logo
Acquisitions & Growth
The following table includes the listing and the timeline of Quest Software's major acquisitions of other companies since 2000.
Key Leaders
Doug Garn - Became the president of Quest Software in 2005. In 2008, Doug Garn became CEO and president of Quest Software. On June 2013, a computer software company, Alteryx Inc appointed Doug Garn to Board of Directors (https://www.alteryx.com/press-releases/alteryx-appoints-former-quest-software-ceo-doug-garn-to-board-of-directors).
Billy Bosworth - VP & GM, Databases Management of Quest from Jun 2005 to May 2011. On May 2011, he became the CEO & Founder of Datastax.
Shayne Higdon - SVP & GM, Virtualization and Application Performance Management of Quest from August 2011 to August 2012. Currently he is the President, Performance and Analytics at BMC Software
Vincent C. Smith (also known as Vinny Smith) - Became CEO and Chairman of Quest Software in 2011. In 2012, Vinny Smith became the founder of Toba Capital, a venture capital firm headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.
Michael Dell - Chairman, Founder & CEO of Dell Technologies. Acquired Quest Software on September 2012. On September 2016, acquired the enterprise software and storage company EMC Corporation.
John Swainson - On March 5, 2012, John Swainson became president of Dell Software. Previously, Swainson was Senior Advisor to Silver Lake Partners, a global private equity firm. Prior to Silver Lake, he was CEO and director of CA Inc., from early 2005 through 2009.
Jeff Hawn - CEO of Quest Software from November 2016 to present.
Solutions & Services
Data protection and disaster recovery - Backup and recovery solutions to protect and backup physical, virtual and cloud systems, apps and data. (Notable products: Quest VROOM; Rapid Recovery)
Quest KACE - Provides OS provisioning, automated network discovery of software and hardware inventory, asset management, endpoint security and patching, application software distribution and maintenance, and a fully integrated service desk. (Notable products: KACE Systems Management Appliances; KACE Systems Deployment Appliances)
Platforms Management and migration solutions - Automate Microsoft platform management tasks for Active Directory, Exchange, Skype for Business, Azure AD, and Office 365. (Notable products: Migration Manager; Enterprise Reporter; Quest On Demand)
Information Management - Provides users and applications to store, modify and analyze a database; automate routine tasks and standardize database performance monitoring. (Notable products: SharePlex; Toad; Spotlight)
Identity and Access Management - Streamline the process to govern identities, manage privileged accounts and control access. (Notable product: ActiveRoles; One Identity)
Awards and Recognitions
The following table includes the listing and the timeline of awards and recognition that Quest Software received since 2004.
Key Partners
· Microsoft
· Dell
· CDW
· Insight Enterprises
· SHI
· Softchoice.com
· Arrow ECS
· Tech Data
· Prianto
· Sigma
· TD Azlan
· Dupaco
References
External links
- Quest Software company website
- One Identity company website
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