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Quest Software Inc
Company typePrivate
IndustrySoftware
FoundedNewport Beach, California, United States (1987 (1987))
FounderDavid M. Doyle
FateAcquired by Francisco Partners & Elliott Management Corporation
Headquarters
Aliso Viejo, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Doug Garn, Billy Bosworth, Shayne Hidgon, Michael Dell, Vinny Smith, John Swainson, Jeff Hawn, Mike Kohlsdorf
ProductsData Protection, Endpoint Management, Platforms Management, Information Management. Identity and Access Management
Websitewww.quest.com

Quest Software, also known as Quest, is a privately held software company headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, United States with 53 offices in 24 countries. The company was founded in 1987.

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 Dell Software.[1] In June 2016, Dell announced the sale of their software division, which included the Quest, SonicWall, and One Identity businesses, to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management Corporation.[2] On October 31, 2016, the sale was finalized.

On November 1, 2016, the sale of Dell Software to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management Corporation was completed, and the company re-launched as Quest Software.[3] On June 1, 2017, One Identity was announced as an independent brand, but still remains part of the Quest family of businesses. One Identity tools consist of identity governance, access management, and privilege management.

In 2018, Quest announced the acquisition of Metalogix, offering SharePoint, OneDrive for Business and Office 365 migration and management tools.[4][5]

History

Quest Software (QSFT) - 1987 to 2012

Quest Software was founded in 1987 in Newport Beach, California, with a line of high-availability and middleware products for HP Multi-Programming Executive (MPE). In 1995, Vinny Smith[6] joined the company, which at the time had 35 employees and $9.5 million in revenue.[citation needed] The following year, Quest entered the database management market with an Oracle SQL database tuning product. In 1997, Quest opened an office in the United Kingdom.[citation needed] Doug Garn joined Quest as the vice president of sales in 1998.[7] That same year, Quest added offices in Germany and Australia, and Smith became CEO.[7] In October 1998, Quest acquired TOAD.[8][9] On August 13, 1999, Quest Software went public.[10] That same year, the company acquired Stat, an application change management company.[11]

In 2000, Quest acquired Foglight,[12] a monitoring product and opened new offices in France and the Netherlands.[citation needed] At the end of 2000, the company had 1,400 employees and $167 million in revenue.[citation needed] The following year, Quest acquired Fastlane Technologies [13] and entered the Microsoft management market with a new product for the IBM DB2 database.[14] In 2002, a Quest office opened in Japan and the company acquired Sitraka, a Java diagnostic services company.[15] In 2003, Quest Software entered the Microsoft SQL Server market, and IDC named Quest number one in distributed database management software.[citation needed] The next year, Quest acquired Aelita Software[16] to gain Microsoft infrastructure management capabilities, and opened new offices in Asia, specifically in Singapore, Korea, and China.[citation needed] Also in 2004, Quest won Microsoft's Global ISV of the Year Award, and Gartner named Quest number one in application management.[17] Doug Garn became president of Quest Software in 2005.[18] That same year, the company acquired Imceda Software,[19] and Vintela for identity management.[20] At the end of 2005, Quest had 2,750 employees worldwide and revenues of $476 million.[needs update]

In 2006, Quest Software began offering fixes for Microsoft SharePoint.[citation needed] That same year, Quest Software acquired ScriptLogic,[21] and Charonware s.r.o from the Czech Republic. Charonware made CASE Studio2, and after being acquired, Quest folded it into the TOAD Data Modeler product.[22] Also in 2006, Quest Software was ranked number one by Gartner for application management in North America, and number one in database development and management by IDC.[23] In 2007, Quest was awarded Microsoft's Global ISV of the Year Award again.[24] The company also began to focus on virtualization by acquiring Provision Networks, a desktop virtualization management company.[citation needed] Doug Garn became CEO and president, and Vinny Smith became executive chairman of Quest in 2008.[25] That same year, Quest Software purchased Vizioncore as an entry into the server virtualization market,[26] and PassGo Technologies.[27] In 2009, Quest Software acquired PacketTrap, a network monitoring company,[28] and Alan Fudge became vice president of sales.[29]

Voelcker was acquired by Quest in 2010, adding to their identity management offerings.[30] Surgient, a private cloud automation company, was also acquired in 2010.[31] That same year Quest Software was ranked in the leaders' quadrant by Gartner for application performance monitoring. In 2011, Quest Software acquired BakBone Software,[32] e-DMZ,[33] R emoteScan,[34] Symlabs,[35] ChangeBASE,[36] vKernel,[37] and BiTKOO.[38] Vinny Smith became CEO and chairman that year, and Doug Garn became vice chairman.[39] On September 28, 2012, Dell announced it had completed the acquisition of Quest Software.[40]

Dell Software - 2012 to October 2016

On March 5, 2012, John Swainson became president of Dell Software.[41] 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.[42]

In 2012, Dell announced the acquisition completion of SonicWALL,[43] a network security business, and AppAssure, a security software maker.[44]

Quest - November 2016 to present

On November 1, 2016, Francisco Partners and Elliott Management completed the purchase of Dell Software,[45] and the company re-launched itself as Quest Software, known in the marketplace as Quest.[46] On June 1, 2017, One Identity was announced as an independent brand, but remains part of the Quest family of businesses.[47] One Identity products consist of services for identity governance, access management, and privilege management. On June 29, 2018, Quest acquired Metalogix Software extending their Microsoft Platform Management business offerings by extending their capabilities to further support SharePoint, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business.[5]

Quest Software outdoor campus area in Aliso Viejo, CA

Company overview

Quest Software EMEA headquarters in Cork, Ireland

Headquarters and locations

Quest Software is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California and is a global company. A few key locations around the globe are: Columbus, Ohio; Halifax, Canada; Kanata, Canada; Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Cork, Ireland; Zhuhai, China; Veracruz, Panama and São 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 and growth

The following table includes the listing and the timeline of Quest Software's major acquisitions of other companies since 2000.

Company Acquired Year of Completion of Acquisition Price Company Notes Reference
TOAD Oct 1998 Add productivity software for database developers, DBAs, and analytics [8][9]
Hacienda Foglight Software Jan 2000 $125 Million [48]
Client/Server Software Solutions Apr 2000 [49]
MessageWise May 2000 $12 million Exchange availability [50]
FastLane Technologies Aug 2000 $100 Million Entered the Microsoft management market [51]
RevealNet Sep 2001 $10 Million Knowledge Base and Code Formatter for Oracle SQL and PL/SQL [52]
BB4 Technologies Mar 2002 Big Brother system [53][54]
Sitraka Nov 2002 $54.7 Million Application management offerings to custom web applications written in Java [55][56]
Aelita Software Mar 2004 $115 Million Microsoft infrastructure management capabilities [57][58]
Wingra Technologies Feb 2005 [59][60]
Imceda Software May 2005 $46.5 million SQL Server backup and recovery capabilities [61]
Vintela Jun 2005 $57.4 million identity management [62]
Aftermail Jan 2006 storage management and compliance archiving space [63][64]
Charonware s.r.o. 2006 Purchased From Czech Republic, the makers of CASE Studio2, and folded in into the TOAD Data Modeler product [65]
Magnum Technologies May 2007 [66][67]
ScriptLogic Aug 2007 $90 million Small-to-medium-sized business market specialists [68][69][70]
eXc Software Oct 2007 [71]
Provision Networks Nov 2007 End-to-end application, desktop monitoring, and management [72][73]
Vizioncore Jan 2008 server virtualization market. Now vRanger [74][75][76]
Aknonix Systems Aug 2008 Bring Quest Policy Authority for Unified Communications and Quest Spotlight on Messaging [77][78]
Netpro Sep 2008 $77.7 million Migrate, manage and secure Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server environments [79][80]
PassGo Technologies Jan 2008 Active Directory based identity management strategy to non-Windows systems [81][82]
MonoSphere Jan 2009 Applications, databases, Windows infrastructure, and virtual environments [83][84]
PacketTrap Dec 2009 Network monitoring [85][86]
Voelcker Informatik AG Jul 2010 Identity and access management (IAM) [87]
Surgient Aug 2010 Private cloud automation market [88][89][90][91]
BakBone Software Jan 2011 $55 million data protection technologies [92][93][94]
e-DMZ Security Feb 2011 Identity and access management (IAM) solutions [95][96]
RemoteScan May 2011 Desktop virtualization [97][98]
Symlabs Jun 2011 Identity and access management (IAM) offering [99][100]
ChangeBASE Oct 2011 Windows application, desktop, mobile and cloud [101][102]
vKernel Nov 2011 Server virtualization market. [103][104]
BiTKOO Dec 2011 [105][106][107]
Blue Folder Feb 2012 Cloud-based service management platform [108][109]
Metalogix Jun 2018 Microsoft platform management, Office 365, SharePoint Integration [110][111]
Binary Tree Sept 2020 Microsoft/Office 365 tenant-to-tenant migration, Notes and Domino migration [112]
erwin, Inc. Dec 31, 2020 Data Intelligence, Data Governance, Data Modeling, Enterprise Architecture Software Company.

Key Leaders

David Doyle - Founder and Director (1987-2003). David was the primary designer and developer during the Quest's first 4 years. His title changed to President some time after partnering with Vinny Smith (probably 1997), and he remained with Quest until March 2003.

Doug Garn – Became the president of Quest Software in 2005, and in 2008, Garn became CEO and president of Quest Software.[113] In June 2013, Alteryx Inc, a computer software company, appointed Garn to board of directors.[114]

Billy Bosworth – Became the VP & GM of databases management at Quest Software from June 2005 to May 2011. In May 2011, he became the CEO and founder of Datastax.[115][116]

Shayne Higdon – Became the SVP & GM of virtualization and application performance management at Quest Software from August 2011 to August 2012. Currently, he is the president of performance and analytics at BMC Software.[117]

Vincent C. Smith (also known as Vinny Smith)[6] – Vinny was CEO of Quest from 1997 to 2008, then stepped down for 3 years, taking the role of "Executive Chairman". Vinny resumed his role as CEO of Quest Software in 2011.[118] In 2012, Vinny Smith became the founder of Toba Capital, a venture capital firm headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.[119]

Michael Dell – The chairman, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies.[120] Acquired Quest Software in September 2012.[121] In September 2016, his company acquired the enterprise software and storage company, EMC Corporation.[122]

John Swainson – On March 5, 2012, John Swainson became president of Dell Software.[123] 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.[124]

Jeff Hawn – CEO of Quest from November 2016 to November 2019.[125]

Michael Kohlsdorf – CEO of Quest from December 2019 to present.[126]

Colleen Langevin - Chief Marketing Officer, May 2020.[127]

Greg Randolph - Chief Revenue Officer, May 2020.[127]

Chris DeBiase - Chief Operations Officer, May 2020.[127]

Services

Data protection and disaster recovery – Backup and recovery services to protect and backup virtual and cloud systems, apps and data.

Unified Endpoint Management – OS provisioning, automated network discovery of software and hardware inventory, asset management, endpoint security and patching, application software distribution and maintenance, and service desk.

Platform Management and migration – Microsoft platform management tasks for Active Directory, Exchange, Skype for Business, Azure AD, and Office 365.

Information Management – Applications to store, modify, and analyze a database and automate routine tasks and standardize database performance monitoring.

Identity and Access Management – For the process to govern identities, manage privileged accounts, and control access.

Awards and Recognitions

The following table includes the listing and the timeline of awards and recognition that Quest Software received since 2004.

Name of the Award/Recognition Year Won Business Unit/Product Reference
Awards won as QSFT
Microsoft's Global ISV of the Year Award 2004 Information Management & Platforms Management [128][129]
Best Exchange Product – “Attendees’ Pick” Award – MSD2D.com 2006 Quest Archive Manager [130]
Best Database Development and Administrative Product – “Best of TechEd” competition 2006 Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise [130]
Microsoft's Prestigious Global ISV of the Year Award 2007 Platforms Management [131]
Windows IT Pro's Community Choice Awards 2009 Platforms Management [132]
SQL Server Magazine Editor's Best Awards 2009 Information Management [132]
Windows IT Pro's Community Choice & Editor's Best Awards 2011 Information Management & Platforms Management [133][134]
Awards won as Dell Software
Windows IT Pro's Community Choice Awards 2012 Platforms Management, KACE, Information Management [135]
Windows IT Pro's SQL Server Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards 2012 Information Management, Platform Management [135]
SC Magazine Awards 2013 Security [136]
Awards won as Quest
People's Choice STEVIE Awards 2017 Cloud Backup/Storage: Quest Rapid Recovery v6.1 [137][138]
Achievement in Customer Excellence Award – Confirmit ACE Awards 2017 Quest Corporate [139]
Route 66 Award - Impartner Accelerator Award 2017 Quest Corporate [140]
DBTA Reader's Choice Awards 2017 Information Management [141][142][143]
V3 Technology Awards 2017 Platform Management [144]

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