Quest Software, Inc. has expanded its set of solutions for Microsoft System Center Platform.
Quest will soon unveil its solutions, including the availability of Quest Management Extensions – Configuration Manager 2007 Edition and the Quest Management Pack for Oracle – Operations Manager 2007 Edition. Quest is also announcing dedicated initiatives supporting Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross-Platform Management Extensions and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Performance & Resource Optimisation (PRO) feature.

As mentioned in the official release, Quest solutions have features including, Monitoring and Diagnostics; Change and Configuration; Backup and Recovery; And Provisioning and Virtualisation.

"In many organisations today, IT professionals are charged with managing both physical and virtual environments that are segmented and difficult to run efficiently because of the lack of integration," said Joe Gare, Windows Management Technical Specialist, Quest Software India. "The Microsoft System Center Family helps IT maximise return on investment while helping to lower total cost of ownership with a comprehensive management platform. Quest is committed to helping organisations maximise the capabilities of System Center, truly giving them a holistic approach to IT management."

"System Center now delivers broad heterogeneous support to help our customers proactively manage and optimise their physical and virtual IT environments and our partners, such as Quest, are an important part of the overall solution," said Robert Reynolds, director of System Center product management at Microsoft Corp. "Quest’s support of our announced heterogeneous extensions to Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager will help our mutual customers realise the benefits of System Center across their end-to-end IT environment."