Certification in the Dell ISV Partner Program

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Quest Software announced it has been formally recognized as a certified partner in the Dell ISV Partner Program. Dell has certified Quest’s application monitoring and management solution, Foglight, for seamless integration with Dell OpenManage. Customers now have unprecedented visibility into their business services – from the end user experience to the hardware infrastructure.

Foglight provides a correlated, 360-degree view of applications from the end user to the database and from service levels to the supporting software infrastructure. From deployment to monitoring to hardware update, Dell OpenManage delivers a core set of comprehensive management tools to help keep Dell systems running smoothly. The integration of OpenManage systems management functionality with Foglight provides customers with a single console view to correlate software performance metrics with hardware health, find and fix the root cause of incidents, and improve control over IT investments.

The Dell ISV Partner Program is focused on simplifying the management of disparate infrastructure platforms, applications, and IT services. Seamless integration of Dell OpenManage systems management functionality in Foglight enhances the manageability of Dell platforms and services. Dell has validated this functionality and certifies that the implementation
performs to Dell standards. Quest and Dell share a mutual commitment to deliver exceptional value to customers and together provide solutions that help transform the way customers deploy, utilize, and experience technology.

Foglight provides maximum value for Dell customers by minimizing the time to deploy, the cost to administer, and the overhead placed on the combined environment. Key features include:

• Agentless monitoring – Foglight leverages the existing OpenManage collector
• Host discovery – Foglight automatically finds and monitors Dell systems
• Service dashboards – Foglight provides visually intuitive and highly flexible Web 2.0 interfaces for both business and technical teams

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Quest Software, Inc., a leading enterprise systems management vendor, delivers innovative products that help organizations get more performance and productivity from their applications, databases, Windows infrastructure and virtual environments. Quest also provides customers with client management through its ScriptLogic subsidiary and server virtualization management through its Vizioncore subsidiary. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 100,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest’s Foglight application management solution unifies IT services with end users and the business, resolves problems faster to reduce downtime, and lowers the operating cost of managing applications.