Welcome PassGo!

We closed the acquisition of PassGo today and I'd personally like to welcome the team to Quest Software! I'm really looking forward to 2008 and the addition of Unix Privilege Manager, SafeKeeping, Defender and all the other PassGo products to the fold.

Quest is going to make a significant investment in sales and marketing around these products so get ready, strap in and prepare for lift-off.

I'll see many of you next week when I am over in the UK!

Happy New Year everyone!!


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With PassGo we're #10...

IDC's "Worldwide Identity and Access Management 2007-2011 Forecast and 2006 Vendor Shares" has Quest Software listed as #15 in their table on revenue by vendor (report #207609) - just barely ahead of Microsoft.

IDC has PassGo listed as #24. The PassGo acquisition set to close on January 1st, but if you add up Quest's and PassGo's revenue we jump from #15 to #10. That puts Quest Software solidly ahead of Microsoft and Sun.

My personal stretch goal is to get in the top 5 (software vendors) within the next 5 years...

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Happy Holidays Everyone!

I just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and all the very, very, very best for 2008.

If you haven't already "Elf'ed yourself" give it a whirl! Hurry, elfing ends on January 2, 2008!

http://www.elfyourself.com/

p.s. Here's ours - http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1696536927

The perils of broken de-provisioning processes...

Interesting ComputerWorld story (Dec 17 issue) on page 36 - "Backing Up on Autoforward". Basically, the story is about an executive who left the company and for two months her e-mail continued to be autoforwarded to her - after joining a competitor!

The author identified the problem pretty directly:

We have a couple of problems. The first is that our employee termination proc­ess is broken. Ideally, we would have an identity management tool tied into our various enterprise systems. When an employee left the company, all access to our infrastructure and applications would be quickly removed. Unfortunately, we have neither the budgetary nor the human resources to do that.

I'd say that's a problem! I wonder if they have budget now?

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