Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

OnDemand officially launched

June 23, 2010

It’s been two weeks since we officially launched our first three Software as a Service solutions. At Microsoft TechEd 2010 in New Orleans Quest Software announced general availability of Recovery for Active Directory, Log Management and Site Administrator Reports that jointly established a new SaaS products family named Quest OnDemand.
From that day on everybody can go to http://www.quest.com/ondemand and give a free try to all three. It just asks you to sign in using your LiveId credentials (if you don’t have one you can sign up for it right away), provide some basic customer information and off you go to the world of elastic, secure and dollar efficient cloud computing.

At TechEd I was giving demos of OnDemand solutions by the Microsoft Azure parther booth. I was very happy to see that it created a vivid interest and quite a few developers, IT Pros and admins came by to watch a live demo and listen to what advantages a new form factor of Systems Management products brings to a table. I thought I’d reiterate a list of fundamental changes that cloud computing brings and what we’re sure OnDemand customers will take advantage of as they start using the services:

  1. Pay as you go subscription model
  2. Instant service delivery
  3. Shorter and hassle free software updates
  4. Dynamic resource provisioning and workload management
  5. Anywhere anytime service access
  6. Ease of use
  7. Security built from ground up

I’m sure that there are a lot of challenges to take on as we continue this SaaS journey. I feel very excited about what we’ve achieved so far and even more excited about what’s to be done in the nearest future. Stay tuned for new product feature announcements and demos,  architectural reviews and relevant news. I’m sure they will be coming out much more often now.

Meanwhile hurry up to get first hand experience with Quest OnDemand solutions and OnDemand Log Management in particular. I’m very interested to hear back from everyone on this innovative and very easy to use service. There are many ways you can be heard:

  1. Sign up to the OnDemand community site and post your question or share your thoughts with other users.
  2. While using the service click a very hard to overlook Feedback button on the right and share your thoughts how you’d like the product to improve
  3. Email your questions to the product support team

And I’m telling you – your feedback will make into the actual product!

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Event Log Management as a Service

May 12, 2010

One of the exciting projects I’ve been involved in at Quest is the whole SaaS initiative called Quest OnDemand in general and Event Log Management Service built on top of it and named InTrust OnDemand in particular. InTrust OnDemand was first announced at the PDC in the end of 2009. Now the service is in the limited beta and applications can be submitted through www.quest.com/ondemand.

Dmitry Sotnikov did an excellent job white boarding the OnDemand framework architecture and performing a live demo of it. Inspired by his demo and videos like this I thought it would make sense to record a  5 minute walkthrough of InTrust OnDemand that would give an idea what the service is to those of you awaiting the beta application being approved.

Here is what I came up with after endless attempts to narrate a good enough voice without too much of the accent and background noise. Still leaves much to be desired but hopefully hits the goal. You be the judge.

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