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I’m excited to report that Gartner has named Quest as an example vendor in multiple areas in its 2022 report, “IAM Best Practices for Active Directory”*! In fact, Quest and our company One Identity are listed as an example vendor in eleven of the categories…

In a related blog post, I revealed that Quest was named as an Example vendor in multiple categories in the 2022 Gartner® report, “Implement IAM Best Practices for Your Active Directory.”¹ In fact, Quest or One Identity was listed as an…

Each summer, we eagerly await the start of Microsoft’s new fiscal year on July 1 as we gear up to learn about their key focus areas and strategic initiatives. This year was a little sweeter as Quest continued its commitment to the Microsoft partner ecosystem…

As a member of a data protection, disaster recovery or storage management team in an enterprise IT organization, you already know how exponential data growth makes your job more difficult.

Even with data deduplication solutions to help reduce storage…

As a managed service provider, are you ready to take advantage of the growing demand for data protection services? The market for data protection as a service (DPaaS) is expected to grow at a 31.3 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to $104 billion…

Cloud object storage and the strategic use of cloud tiering are hot trends for data protection, but you need to balance cost and speed for the best solution. So how can you get the best of both worlds? To start, be sure you have the right data protection…

Are you relying on Microsoft services and infrastructure to protect your Microsoft 365 data? Unfortunately, native Microsoft 365 data protection falls short of the backup and restore functionality most organizations need. Businesses today need a solution…

The risk

Ransomware attacks represent a significant danger to all organizations. Forrester Research reported that the number of ransomware attacks on enterprises is up 500% over the previous year and will cost businesses $11.5 billion. To reduce the risk…

As a member of a data protection, disaster recovery or storage management team in an enterprise IT organization, you already know how exponential data growth makes your job more difficult.

Even with data deduplication solutions to help reduce storage…

Data replication is the process of updating copies of your data in multiple places at the same time. The goal of replication is to keep your data available to the users who rely on it to make decisions and to the customers who need it to perform transactions…

If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s possible to undertake a cloud migration while simultaneously upgrading Oracle versions without losing any transaction data or incurring downtime, Hotwire has proven it is. And, they want to tell you all…

In a previous blog, I discussed the differences between high availability and disaster recovery. Then, in my second post in this series, I looked at how SharePlex can help with disaster recovery. So, in this final post, I’ll discuss how Quest SharePlex…

Customers often ask, “What’s the difference between high availability and disaster recovery?” and “Can I use the same solution to achieve both?”

This series of blogs will help users understand the definitions of high ava…

In my earlier post, I defined the differences between high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). I noted that in designing for DR, you want to build your secondary system so it will survive a large or widespread event, such as a hurricane, earthquake…

In 2017, all of Maersk’s 150 or so online domain controllers were destroyed as collateral damage in the NotPetya attack, stopping all critical business functions that depended on Active Directory for authentication¹. In order to get the shipping…

One way organizations are enabling work-from-home during the COVID-19 pandemic is via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). RDP gives employees access to internal corporate resources remotely, like those sitting on Windows servers. This type of remote access…

They say the cover-up is worse than the crime. When a ransomware attack destroys your network, it’s hard to say which is worse because you may not have known you were breached beforehand – and that’s the point, according to Microsoft Certified Master…

We all remember Abbott and Costello’s skit “Who’s On First?”. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend you pop over to YouTube and give it a watch. It has become one of the legendary classic comedies of all times, with Costello not knowing baseball…

  We all remember the movie that came out years ago about a dinosaur theme park where you could see living dinosaurs on an island. Everything worked great until the “bad” guys stepped in and crashed everything causing havoc and of letting the dinos out…

Trying to decide on the best technologies to boost your backup and recovery strategy but reluctant to invest in yet another expensive system? Secondary storage systems are flooding the market these days since most can store 10 or 20 times the capacity…

How has the cloud transformed your IT organization over the past decade? Most businesses today make use of the cloud in some way, whether it’s for data storage, for running software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, or as an integral part of the organization…

For the longest time deduplicating data has been limited to the data center, stuck on proprietary hardware, with proprietary HDDs and has had the promise of being simple and easy. Further ignoring the changing technology landscape, deduplication appliances…

As technology has helped simplify so much of our work and personal lives, the IT systems supporting that technology have only become more and more complex. In addition, the risk of IT disaster has increased exponentially because of the proliferation…

Does your disaster recovery plan focus on recovery? That’s a great starting point, but many experts say recovery should actually be a last resort. The ideal would be to take steps to avoid catastrophe in the first place.

It’s tough, though. IT…

I’m proud to announce our QoreStor software-defined secondary storage platform now supports an even wider range of backup software solutions with the inclusion of CIFS, NFS, RapidCIFS and RapidNFS. Now you can help even more IT organizations and…