Protecting enterprise data in a complex IT environment is challenging, time-consuming, cumbersome and often incomplete. Installation of backup and recovery technologies can be complicated and learning to manage and maintain them takes a lot of time, effort and patience — especially if your environment has multiple operating systems and applications and is heavily virtualized. Quest® ...

Ransomware has become a ‘cyber-pandemic’ that shows no signs of diminishing anytime soon. Your ransomware recovery capabilities must be up to the challenge, as these attacks have gone well beyond just another cybercrime to becoming a threat to our society as well. Just recently, we have seen some high-profile ransomware attacks lead to serious shortages ...

The Experts Conference (TEC) is back – virtually and for free –September 1 – 2, 2021. TEC 2021 will be the Microsoft training event of the year , with practical Active Directory and Office 365 education. Connect with Microsoft MVPs, industry and Quest experts, and your peers. You can look forward to: A great lineup ...

Oracle has discontinued support for Streams in Oracle Database 19c, leaving you little choice but to buy Oracle GoldenGate. But this replacement is extremely expensive and leaves you vulnerable to downtime. Instead, what if you could replace Streams with an affordable alternative that doesn’t expose you to risk? With Quest® SharePlex® data replication, you get ...

Has Oracle 19c Standard Edition 2 (SE2) taken a step backward in high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)? It appears so. If you plan to stick with Standard Edition 2, take a second look at how you will handle server failures and avoid downtime in your environment. Oracle 19c will make you re-think your ...

If you run Oracle, database upgrades and migrations are inevitable. While there are real benefits to performing these upgrades and migrations, changes of this scale introduce equally real risks of unforeseen issues and downtime. Native Oracle solutions provide some protection, but all have trade-offs or leave remaining risks. Business requirements around uptime and continuity are ...

DataOps automates and organizes data flows to help organizations better leverage their data. You’ll learn about the advantages DataOps provides, as well as best practices to implement DataOps in your organization, when you read this complimentary thought-leadership paper by DBTA Lead Analyst Joe McKendrick. Download your copy to learn how you can: Use DataOps to ...

The most common root cause of unused licenses is the infamous license pool. Many organizations maintain a pool of unused Office 365 licenses. This pool is sometimes as high as 15 or 20 percent of the total number of licenses they have purchased. For a medium-sized organization with 5,000 users, maintaining a 15- percent pool ...

Quest Software offers solutions with a comprehensive portfolio complete the functionality of Microsoft Office 365. Simplify simplification of management and hedging local, cloud-based or hybrid environments. Simplify the management of large, complex, and multi-tenant environments with Office 365 management software that provides deeper operational visibility and control across your environment. Read now to gain insights ...

The threat landscape has changed dramatically. Are you prepared for the new destructive attacks? IT and security pros have been battling serious threats for a long time. On the one hand are risks like power outages, hardware failures and natural disasters. On the other are malicious insiders and crafty hackers, armed to the teeth with ...