Quest Software - History

History

1987 – Quest Software was founded in Newport Beach, California with a line of high availability and middleware products for HP Multi-Programming Executive (MPE).

1995 – Vinny Smith joined the company, which at the time had 35 employees and $9.5 million in revenue.

1996 – Quest entered the database management market with an Oracle SQL database tuning product;

1997 – Quest expanded beyond North America by opening an office in the United Kingdom.

1998 – Doug Garn joined Quest as the vice president of sales. Quest also added offices in Germany and Australia. Smith became CEO.

1999 – On August 13, 1999, Quest Software went public. The company also entered the application change management market by acquiring Stat.

2000 – Quest expanded further into application management by acquiring Foglight, a monitoring product; and continued the global expansion with new offices in France and the Netherlands. At the end of 2000, the company had 1,400 employees and $167 million in revenue.

2001 – Quest entered the Microsoft management market by acquiring Fastlane Technologies, and broadened its database offerings beyond Oracle with a new product for the IBM DB2 database.

2002 – Quest opened an office in Japan and expanded their application management offerings to custom web applications written in Java with the acquisition of Sitraka.

2003 – Quest officially entered the Microsoft SQL Server market, and IDC named Quest #1 in distributed database management software.

2004 – The company expanded its Microsoft infrastructure management capabilities by acquiring Aelita Software, and won Microsoft's prestigious Global ISV of the Year award for the first time. Gartner also named Quest #1 in Application Management. 2004 also saw Quest expand operations in Asia with new offices in Singapore, Korea and China.

2005 – Doug Garn became president of Quest. The company acquired Imceda Software that year to add SQL Server backup and recovery capabilities, and Vintela for identity management. At the end of 2005, Quest had 2,750 employees worldwide and revenues of $476 million.

2006 – The company entered the Microsoft SharePoint market. Quest acquired ScriptLogic, which provided a solid entry into the small-to-medium sized business market. This year also saw Quest ranked #1 by Gartner for application management in North America, and #1 in Database Development and Management by IDC.

2007 – Quest received Microsoft's Global ISV of the Year award for the second time. 3 The company also begin its focus on virtualization by acquiring Provision Networks, a desktop virtualization management company.

2008 – Doug Garn became CEO and president, and Vinny Smith became executive chairman. Quest purchased Vizioncore as an entry into the server virtualization market.

2009 – Alan Fudge becomes vice president of sales, and Quest acquired PacketTrap for network monitoring.

2010 – The company acquired Voelcker to round out their identity management offerings. Quest continued building out its virtualization business and also entered the private cloud automation market by acquiring Surgient. Quest was also ranked in the leaders' quadrant by Gartner for application performance monitoring. Revenues were $767 million at the end of 2010, and the company counted approximately 3,500 employees.

2011 – Quest acquired BakBone Software, e-DMZ, RemoteScan, Symlabs,ChangeBASE, VKernel and BiTKOO.

2011 – Vinny Smith became CEO and Chairman, and Doug Garn became Vice Chairman.

2012 - On Friday September 28, 2012, Dell announced that it completed the acquisition of Quest Software & now Quest software is a part of DELL