Quest Software

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. 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. 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. 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.

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]

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]

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

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.

• 1987-2012: First Quest Software (QSFT) logo
• 2012-2016: Dell Software logo
• 2016–present: New Quest Software logo