Quest Software, a global systems management and security software provider, has announced strong industry momentum for its Data Protection and KACE business (DP | KACE). The company unveiled a new solution, Quest VROOM, which combines the business’s market-leading virtualisation management and data protection software to empower IT and virtual administrators to proactively manage, monitor and protect data and applications across multi-hypervisor and hybrid virtual infrastructures.
The new solution headlines a period of strong momentum for the Quest DP | KACE business. Validating the success of its data protection business and its renewed focus on the channel, Quest has seen a 23% year-over-year growth in global channel bookings for its data protection solutions. Additionally, as customers increasingly move workloads to the cloud, the business has seen 179% growth in Azure usage for its Rapid Recovery data protection solution in the past six months.
Reinforcing the value of the Quest KACE solutions, more than seven million endpoints globally are now secured by Quest KACE products. Approximately 2.3 million endpoints have been configured for OS deployment using the KACE Systems Deployment Appliance, in the process assisting organisations with OS migrations and updates to corporate images and saving untold time for administrators. Likewise, KACE customers have created more than 33 million Service Desk tickets using the KACE Systems Management Appliance, in the process helping organisations streamline IT asset management, secure network-connected devices, and service end-user systems more efficiently.
Together, these data points verify the value the Quest DP | KACE business delivers in helping customers better manage and protect their evolving hybrid IT environments.
“As organisations deal with an increasingly complex mix of physical, virtual and cloud-based systems, the need to better manage, monitor and protect from the data centre all the way to the endpoint is paramount,” said Matt Vitale, Vice President of North American Sales, Data Protection and KACE. “Our robust portfolio of virtualisation management, data protection and endpoint security solutions coupled with our commitment to our channel ecosystem ensures we are well positioned for success.”
Supercharging Virtualisation Management with Quest VROOM
Despite the growing complexity of today’s virtual environments, expectations are greater than ever for IT and virtual machine (VM) administrators to deliver high-performance applications with zero downtime, while also keeping expenses at a minimum. Quest VROOM addresses the increasing need for a solution that helps Hyper-V, VMware and cloud IT (Azure and AWS) admins meet these expectations by maximizing resources to accelerate the performance of an entire virtual infrastructure and optimise the application experience for end-users, while proactively controlling license and hardware costs.
Key features and capabilities of Quest VROOM include:
● Improved user experience with end-to-end everything. Gain complete, uninterrupted visibility into VMware and Hyper-V environments with monitoring and management across the entire virtualisation infrastructure stack. Organisations can protect and recover full systems, applications and data across physical, virtual and cloud deployments.
● Cut costs with capacity and resource management. Easily monitor and assess current workload capacity, identify shortfalls, analyse alternative scenarios and plan for data centre growth or additional virtualised workloads. Safely deploy additional virtual machines (VMs) by identifying available slots. Forecast exhaustion of resources in VMs and estimate purchasing requirements by modelling hardware changes.
● Reduce risk with near-zero Recovery Time Objectives and aggressive Recovery Point Objectives. Achieve easy, scalable protection for growing virtual environments by protecting VMware and Hyper-V VMs without disrupting applications and users. The ‘Rapid Snap for Virtual and Applications’ feature allows administrators to take incremental-forever snapshots that capture an entire application and its relevant state, as often as every five minutes, for complete application and system recovery with near-zero RTOs and aggressive RPOs.
Strong commitment to channel
The Quest DP | KACE business has seen a 23% year-over-year growth in channel bookings for its data protection solutions. Channel partners play, and will continue to play, a crucial role in helping the data protection and KACE business quickly deliver solutions to market that will help IT and VM administrators manage their growing hybrid infrastructures. The Quest Partner Circle programme is a flexible, multi-level programme that enables partners to drive profitability and increase capability, all while keeping it simple to do business together.
Pricing and Availability
● Quest VROOM is available now for trial through Quest and select partners. For more information, go to: www.quest.com/products/quest-vroom
● To learn more about Quest Data Protection solutions, visit: www.quest.com/solutions/data-protection/
● To learn more about Quest KACE solutions, visit: www.quest.com/solutions/endpoint-systems-management
About Quest
Quest helps solve the complex technology and security problems that stand in the way of organizations’ ability to always be ready for what’s next. With Quest solutions, companies of all sizes can reduce the time and money spent on IT administration and security, so they have more time to focus on and invest in business innovation. Quest has more than 100,000 customers worldwide across its portfolio of software solutions spanning database management, data protection, endpoint systems management, identity and access management, and Microsoft platform management. For more information, visit www.quest.com.
