Quest Announces Support for Microsoft Hyper-V, Added Application Visibility, and Increased Automation of Virtual Infrastructures with vFoglight
Market-Leading Solution Manages Infrastructure Performance, Availability and Capacity – Across Virtual and Cloud Environments

Bangalore– Sept. 2, 2010 – Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today announced that vFoglight^®, its market-leading solution for virtualization monitoring and capacity planning, will support Microsoft Hyper-V and provide increased automation of virtual infrastructures with vFoglight 6.5, currently planned for release in Q4 2010.  vFoglight now also supports Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange.  Quest will demonstrate all these capabilities in booth 1113 at VMworld, held at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, Aug. 30 through Sept 2.

As infrastructures become increasingly complex, and critical applications are run on virtual and cloud infrastructure, IT teams are increasingly challenged to manage and control their environment.  vFoglight answers a critical need for a single tool to manage the virtual layer and provide visibility “up the stack” into the infrastructure and applications running in that environment.  With these enhancements, Quest customers can better deliver on virtualization’s promise of reducing costs and increasing efficiency while simplifying management.

Quest is working to set a new standard for analyzing and monitoring performance and capacity across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures while easing administration through automation.  “More than 20,000 customers use Quest daily to manage their virtual infrastructures.  By giving organizations greater application visibility, added administrative control, and support across multiple hypervisor platforms, we are helping to simplify virtualization management and reduce operational costs,” said Carl Eberling, vice president and general manager, Virtualization and Monitoring at Quest Software.

Features and enhancements included in vFoglight 6.5 include:

· Extended Hypervisor Support – Manage multiple hypervisor platforms, including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, more consistently and effectively.

· Administration – Reduce time and costs of empowering administrators to start, stop and pause VMs, in the context of daily activities.

· Event Remediation – Administrators can view alarms then speed mean-time-to-resolution for problems by launching workflows to automate resolution.

· User Perspectives – Designed to provide administrators tailored views for understanding performance monitoring, capacity planning, chargeback, and more.

· Enhanced FAQts – First introduced with vFoglight 6.0, the enhanced FAQts in vFoglight 6.5 provide factual information about the dynamic infrastructure, displayed clearly for administrators.

About Quest Software, Inc.

Quest Software simplifies and reduces the cost of managing IT for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Our innovative solutions make solving the toughest IT management problems easier, enabling customers to save time and money across physical, virtual and cloud environments.  For more information about Quest, go to www.quest.com.

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Quest Software Solutions selected as best in breed by Microsoft Users and Experts
Company Receives Record 15 Awards from Redmond Magazine, SQL Server Magazine and Windows IT Pro

Bengaluru, Karnataka, November 26, 2009 / IndiaPRLine / — Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today announced it is the recipient of numerous editors’, readers’ and community choice awards from Redmond Magazine, SQL Server Magazine and Windows IT Pro, for its Windows and database management products. The awards, totaling 15 in all, are a testament to Quest’s commitment to provide Microsoft customers with innovative solutions, and underscore the products’ impressive reputation within the Windows and SQL Server communities.

In Windows It Pro’s Community Choice Awards, Quest received a gold for Authentication Services (Best Interoperability Product), a silver for Group Policy Manager/GPOAdmin® (Best Active Directory and Group Policy Product), and a bronze for ChangeAuditor® (Best Auditing and Compliance Product).

Quest’s database management solutions received SQL Server Magazine Editors’ Best Awards recognition in two categories:

• Best Backup & Recovery (SQL Server) Product: LiteSpeed® for SQL Server (Gold)
• Best Development SQL Server Tool: Toad® for SQL Server (Gold)

Quest also was recognized by the editors at Windows IT Pro in the following categories:Best Free or Open Source IT Tool: PowerGUI™ (Silver)

• Best Auditing & Compliance Product: ChangeAuditor® (Silver)
• Best Interoperability Product: Authentication Services (Bronze)
• Best Systems Management Product: GPOAdmin® (Bronze)

Quest’s Windows management products also received nods from the readers of Redmond and SQL Server Magazine. In the Redmond Readers’ Choice Awards, Quest Migration Manager received both the “ISV Winner” and “Preferred Product” in the Best Migration Product category. Quest Defender was recognized as a “Preferred Product” in the Best Smart Card/Biometric/Two-Factor Authentication System category. SQL Server Magazine and Windows IT Pro’s Community Choice Awards named Site Administrator for SharePoint the gold award winner for Best SharePoint Product.

SQL Server Magazine’s Community Choice Awards gave Quest’s Foglight® Performance Analysis for SQL Server the silver for Best Database Monitoring and Performance Products, and the company’s Spotlight® on SQL Server Enterprise was named a “Preferred Product” by Redmond Readers’ Choice Awards.

“Providing innovative solutions and top-notch technical support and services that help our customers streamline their business operations is Quest’s number one priority,” said Aggie Haslup, vice president of worldwide marketing, Quest Software. “We’re delighted to have our hard work recognized by both the editors and readers of Redmond, SQL Server Magazine and Windows IT Pro. As our industry gears up for 2010, it’s clear that Quest is the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner of choice for organizations looking to simplify, automate, secure and extend their Microsoft environments.”

About Quest Software, Inc.

Now more than ever, organizations need to work smart and improve efficiency. Quest Software creates and supports smart systems management products-helping our customers solve everyday IT challenges faster and easier. Visit www.quest.com for more information.

Quest, Quest Software, LiteSpeed, Toad, GPOAdmin, PowerGUI, ChangeAuditor, Foglight, Spotlight, and the Quest logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Quest Software in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Web Links Referenced in this Release:

Quest Software, Inc.: www.quest.com

Authentication Services: www.quest.com/authentication-Services

Group Policy Manager/GPOAdmin®: www.quest.com/gpoadmin

ChangeAuditor®: www.quest.com/landing/?id=4463

LiteSpeed® for SQL Server: www.quest.com/litespeed-for-sql-server

Toad® for SQL Server: www.quest.com/toad-for-sql-server

PowerGUI™: www.quest.com/powershell/powergui.aspx

GPOAdmin®: www.quest.com/gpoadmin

Migration Manager: www.quest.com/migration-manager-for-active-directory

Defender: www.quest.com/defender

Site Administrator for SharePoint: www.quest.com/site-administrator-for-sharepoint

Foglight® Performance Analysis for SQL Server: www.quest.com/Foglight-Performance-Analysis-for-SQL-Server

Spotlight® on SQL Server Enterprise: www.quest.com/spotlight-on-sql-server-enterprise

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