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 are designed to 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 Dell Software. On 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. 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.
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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 Software entered the database management market with an Oracle SQL database tuning product.
1997 - Quest Software expanded beyond North America by opening an office in the United Kingdom.
1998 - Doug Garn joined Quest Software as the vice president of sales. Quest Software also added offices in Germany and Australia. Smith became CEO. On October of 1998, Quest Software 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 Software 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 Software 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 Software officially entered the Microsoft SQL Server market, and IDC named Quest number one in distributed database management software.
2004 - The company expanded its Microsoft infrastructure management capabilities by acquiring Aelita Software and won Microsoft's Global ISV of the Year Award for the first time. Gartner also named Quest number one in application management. In 2004, Quest Software expanded operations in Asia with new offices in Singapore, Korea and China.
2005 - Doug Garn became president of Quest Software. The company acquired Imceda Software 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 Software acquired ScriptLogic, which provided entry into the small-to-medium-sized business market. Quest Software also acquired Charonware s.r.o from the Czech Republic, the makers of CASE Studio2, and folded it into the TOAD Data Modeler product. Quest Software was ranked number one by Gartner for application management in North America, and number one in database development and management by IDC.
2007 - Quest Software received Microsoft's Global ISV of the Year Award for the second time. The company also began to 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 Software purchased Vizioncore as an entry into the server virtualization market. Quest Software also purchased PassGo Technologies.
2009 - Alan Fudge becomes vice president of sales, and Quest Software acquired PacketTrap for network monitoring.
2010 - The company acquired Voelcker to add to their identity management offerings. Quest Software continued to build out its virtualization business and also entered the private cloud automation market by acquiring Surgient. Quest Software 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 had approximately 3,500 employees.
2011 - Quest Software 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 October 2016
On September 28, 2012, Dell announced it had 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 - November 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 itself as Quest Software, known in the marketplace as Quest.
2017 - On June 1, 2017, One Identity was announced as an 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 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 and 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, and in 2008, Garn became CEO and president of Quest Software. In June 2013, Alteryx Inc, a computer software company, appointed Garn to board of directors.
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.
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.
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 - The chairman, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies. Acquired Quest Software in September 2012. In September 2016, his company 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 from November 2016 to Present.
Solutions and Services
Data protection and disaster recovery - Backup and recovery solutions to protect and backup physical, virtual and cloud systems, apps and data.
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.
Platforms Management and migration - Automate Microsoft platform management tasks for Active Directory, Exchange, Skype for Business, Azure AD, and Office 365.
Information Management - Provides users and applications to store, modify, and analyze a database and automate routine tasks and standardize database performance monitoring.
Identity and Access Management - Allows users to streamline 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.
References
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