Posts Tagged ‘Quest OnDemand’
Time Machine for Active Directory
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 6, 2010
Cloud-based AD backup and recovery service – Quest OnDemand Recovery – just got updated allowing among other things to easily locate the whole change history for a given account throughout the whole backup history, and roll the object back to any particular moment in time. The new feature is available right from the main screen. [...]
Provide feedback on Quest OnDemand – get an iPad
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: September 23, 2010
Now that our services for IT Pros: OnDemand Recovery for Active Directory and OnDemand Log Management – have been out for a couple of months, got their first customers, and demonstrated (knock on wood) 100% uptime, it seems to be the right time to start collecting feedback and give back some prizes. This is exactly what [...]
When federation does not work
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: September 21, 2010
One of the leading providers of IT management SaaS – Quest OnDemand – has decided to stop using federation with Live ID as its main user authentication method and switched to simple email address/password way. In the age of everyone trying to federate with everyone else this move seems to be going into the opposite [...]
Cloud Systems Management talk in Silicon Valley
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 30, 2010
This Monday, August 2nd, 2010 I will be talking about how cloud computing is transforming the Systems Management industry at the Cloud Computing usergroup in Mountain View, CA. Here’s the abstract: As SaaS and cloud matures and gets wider acceptance it starts affecting new markets and application areas. While more and more widely adopted in consumer space, [...]
Event Log Management in the Cloud
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 22, 2010
Another online service we have just launched for IT professionals is Quest OnDemand Log Management. This is a great service for event log collection, storage and analysis. 1. All you need to do to enable it, is download and install a small event collection agent and select which event logs you want to collect, 2. [...]
Secure Cloud Backup for Active Directory
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 17, 2010
Last week was the official commercial launch of Quest OnDemand Recovery for AD – a subscription-based automated service which protects your Active Directory for a small monthly fee. Changes are good, and Active Directory – as the identity core of most companies’ IT – is always changes. However, sometimes wrong changes happen: accounts or whole [...]
IT Management as a Service: Discussion and Demo
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 18, 2010
Microsoft’s TechNet EDGE posted a video with quite detailed discussion of Systems Management as a Service concept, example of such a service (Quest OnDemand), how it uses Windows Azure as the underlying technology, the security model behind it, and so on. Obviously a demo is in there as well. Check out the video here. Share [...]
Cloud Service for Local SharePoint Insight
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 27, 2010
A new (free!) service became publicly available on Quest OnDemand – Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint Reports. This is a great free service which provides some pretty neat reports on your intranet SharePoint environment. You go to the site and it launches a nice Silverlight client. Then all you need to do is provide a [...]
Case-Study on Secure SaaS
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 15, 2010
Security and data protection are key concerns for any cloud solution. I truly believe that this is also one aspect that you cannot just improve over time. No matter how agile you are security needs to be there by design. Unfortunately most cloud vendors/SaaS-providers still don’t tell enough about the way they protect customer data [...]
Details on Quest OnDemand
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 8, 2010
Ben Riga posted a video recording with a fairly detailed discussion we had at Microsoft PDC about Quest OnDemand (Quest’s Systems Management as a Service offering): In that discussion we have covered quite a few topic which I hope you will find interesting: What is Systems Management as a Service and how it is different [...]
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