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With Quest, you can tackle the toughest IT work easier and faster – and save your organization a lot of money.
When that happens, you have more time to do bigger and better things for your organization – and everyone thinks you’re a genius. We think that’s pretty cool.
And it gets even better. We are focused on technology innovation that delivers real value and cost savings, fast. You can rely on us to meet just about any IT management need with our breadth of smart, award-winning products and time-saving services. Whether you are working with Windows, databases and applications, or in physical, virtual or cloud environments -- you’re covered. You’ll be amazed how our innovative yet practical solutions will transform your IT operations and boost staff productivity higher than you ever imagined – and all from a solid company that’s been helping organizations large and small since 1987.
It’s no surprise we are helping more than 100,000 customers around the world today reduce cost of managing IT – including the top 10 companies in several industries. And by the way, our customers consistently give us an A-grade for support.
We’re glad you’re here. Now let’s get to work. You can start by downloading one of our amazing products or by learning more about our innovative solutions.
Quick Facts
- Total 2010 revenue was $767 million (up 10%)
- $493 million in cash investments
- R&D investment is 18.5% of revenues
- 100,000 customers worldwide (87% of the Fortune 500)
- More than 60 offices in 23 countries
Industry Leadership
- Two-time winner, Microsoft Global ISV Partner of the Year Award
- Microsoft Partner of the Year in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Active Directory, 2009
- #2 in North American Application Management Marketplace Based on Total Software Revenue for 2009
- #2 in North American Database Management Software Marketplace Based on Total Software Revenue for 2009
- #5 in the IT Management Software Market, 2009
Network Instruments, a leading provider of performance management and troubleshooting for fifteen years, helps organizations ensure the delivery of business-critical applications. The company's platform of management and reporting products provides comprehensive visibility into networks and applications to optimize performance, speed troubleshooting, and assist long-term capacity planning. Network Instruments achieved profitability in its first quarter and posted revenue growth every year since its founding – without any external funding. Headquartered in Minneapolis, the company has sales offices worldwide and distributors in over 50 countries.
Stop Failures, Improve Performance
With network-driven applications at the heart of every company activity, network failure is not an option. Issues that disrupt or degrade application performance directly impact revenue, company productivity, and customer service.
Network Instruments® integrated solutions help benchmark, maintain, and even improve overall performance.
• Manage application delivery, response time, and performance
• Ensure successful technology and application roll-outs
• Monitor performance across virtual and physical environments
• Identify and resolve problems before they disrupt business
• Plan and expand the network to meet long-term corporate needs
• Track unified communications and VoIP performance and quality
Achieve Global Network Visibility
• Monitor performance worldwide from a web-based console
• Track performance by business units, user groups, multi-tiered applications, and infrastructure types
• Quickly resolve problems by drilling into detailed metrics
Optimize Application Delivery and Performance
• Automatically discover, track, and analyze up-to-the-minute application performance
• Understand application dependencies
• Instantly identify long latency and response times
Ensure Successful Technology Roll-Outs
• Conduct baseline analysis and set performance benchmarks
• Assess impact of new technology on network and applications
• Configure alarms to manage performance deviations
Identify and Resolve Performance Problems
• Eliminate business disruptions
• Stop wasting time replicating problems
• Immediately isolate the problem source
• Speed troubleshooting through comprehensive expert analysis
Plan Long-Term Network Growth
• Assess long-term application and network performance
• Trend bandwidth use over time
• Determine and justify need for new infrastructure investments
Performance Management Solutions
Manage performance with enterprise-wide monitoring and reporting. Resolve challenges by seamlessly drilling to the problem source using powerful expert analysis. Both capabilities are key to ensuring application delivery and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR).
Observer Reporting Server
Enterprise-wide performance management
• Assess the business impact of mission-critical applications
• Seamlessly drill to the packet-level for quick resolution
• Organize reports by department, infrastructure type, or business activity
• Access streaming response time, usage, and TopN reports
GigaStor™
Reduce MTTR with back-in-time analysis
• Capture, save, and replay up to 288 TB of data
• Rewind the network to troubleshoot intermittent issues
• Establish baselines for new applications
• Obtain long-term analysis of performance and growth for capacity planning
• Reconstruct data streams to review web pages, VoIP conversations, and e-mails
Observer® Console
The industry’s most powerful analytics
• Utilize over 600 Experts to quickly isolate and resolve problems
• Monitor application communications, errors, and response times
• Track unified communications and VoIP performance and quality on a per-call or aggregated basis
• Gain application-specific details across the enterprise
Link Analyst®
Active resource monitoring across the network
• Automatically discover, map, and monitor network resources
• Identify application dependencies
• Ensure infrastructure and route availability
• Identify business areas impacted by downed device
Cymtec provides tools that help companies optimize network performance and fulfill the rigorous audit and compliance standards imposed on today’s organizations. Known for ease of deployment and simplicity of operation, as well as the industry’s lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Cymtec’s plug-and-play products provide the unique visibility and control necessary to manage today’s remote and branch office environments.
Cymtec Sentry goes beyond the traditional firewall and UTM to provide unprecedented levels of traffic visibility, user control, bandwidth management and threat containment, giving companies centralized control of remote, branch and distributed network environments. With Cymtec Sentry appliances in every location, customers are able to optimize existing network investments by reducing downtime, troubleshooting more efficiently and ensuring the correct use of network assets.
With remote and branch offices now a part of, and often a significant management challenge for almost all IT organizations, Cymtec Sentry delivers the functionality to manage and optimize network performance in these unique environments.
Cymtec Sentry is the only product in the market that is specifically designed, architected and priced for the remote/branch/small office environment. Combining functionality that brings together visibility, enforcement, bandwidth shaping and containment of threats, Cymtec Sentry delivers, on one platform all of the tools necessary to better manage, remotely troubleshoot and optimize the remote/branch office network.
Cymtec Scout provides powerful threat detection capabilities that allow IT managers to better protect their network assets before threats impact business operations. Cymtec Scout is the only network intrusion detection solution (IDS) in the market delivered entirely through a SaaS model.
Cymtec Scout simplifies IDS into a plug-and-play deployment model, with all of the power and robustness of an enterprise IDS. In addition to providing real-time and trending threat and anomaly analysis, Cymtec Scout streamlines the reporting process, significantly simplifying compliance with a range of regulatory mandates, including HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI.
Through a number of acquisitions and mergers, 8e6 Technologies, now M86 Security is quickly becoming the leading Internet Security Company. There is not a problem that they cannot solve no matter what industry you are in or how large your enterprise is.
M86 Secure Web Gateway
Award-winning, best-in-breed multi-layered, on-site and cloud-based Web security with productivity, liability and bandwidth control, via URL categorization, content caching and applications control technologies. Patented, active real-time content inspection analyzes inbound and outbound communication, keeping malware out of networks and laptops, and keeping sensitive/confidential data in.
8e6 Professional Edition
High-performance, scalable, appliance-based URL filtering, application control, detailed forensic reporting and real-time monitoring and mitigation of outbound Web-based threats. Interoperable and easy to deploy in any network infrastructure; utilizes "pass-by technology" for zero network impact and fail-safe operation.
M86 WebMarshal
Software-based, comprehensive in-bound and outbound Web traffic control and management, threat protection (URL, AV and malware filtering) and data leakage prevention. Policy-based, easy-to-manage and highly scalable.
Email Security
M86 MailMarshal SMTP
Total email content security solution. Unifies anti-spam, email threat protection, content security, policy enforcement and data leakage prevention. Acts as an email gateway—powered by M86 Security Defense-in-Depth anti-spam engine—filtering all incoming and outgoing email at the perimeter. Highly scalable, flexible and easy to manage.
M86 MailMarshal Secure Email Server
Dedicated, policy-based, secure email solution that provides encryption, digital signature and deep content inspection of inbound and outbound email messages. Operates with any MailMarshal SMTP or other S/MIME email gateways. Centralized certificate updates through director (LDAP) synchronization.
M86 MailMarshal SendSecure
Hosted service that facilitates encrypted email messages to anyone in the world, without requiring a pre-existing relationship or certificate and key exchanges. Doesn't require special software installed prior to reading secured messages. All upgrades and changes to the software are performed by M86.
M86 MailMarshal Exchange
Filters and manages all email flowing through Exchange between inboxes and Exchange servers in remote offices. Monitors and controls intra-organizational email content, facilitating a safe, productive working environment, compliance with acceptable use policies and data leakage prevention.
M86 MailMarshal Service Provider Edition
SaaS security solution enables Managed Service Providers and Internet Service Providers to offer hosted email content security services to enterprise customers. Combines email filtering, anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-pornography, anti-phishing, policy compliance, email archiving and reporting. Centrally managed and highly scalable.
Endpoint and Mobile Security
M86 Mobile Client
URL filtering software that works in conjunction with the 8e6 Professional Edition to filter remote/off-site users. Works on PC and Mac notebook devices; delivers centralized reporting via the Professional Edition.
M86 Marshal Endpoint Security
Policy-based enforcement solution only allows authorized removable media devices to connect to corporate desktops. Monitors and controls removable media devices such as USB flash drives, iPods, PDAs and CDs.