Evaluation of Foglight Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Feb. 24, 2010 – Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring.” Gartner evaluated 19 vendors on their “Ability to Execute” and “Completeness of Vision” for the report.
Quest’s application performance monitoring (APM) solution, Foglight®, is the main driver for the company’s position in the Leaders quadrant by Gartner. Foglight takes an integrated approach to the five dimensions of APM identified by Gartner: end-user experience monitoring, user-defined transaction profiling, application component discovery and modeling, application component deep dive monitoring and application performance management database. Foglight can also gather and correlate data from physical, virtual or mixed infrastructures, providing organizations complete visibility into applications regardless of organizational maturity.
According to Gartner, “…during the same time period in which both business decision makers and operations management teams have come to discover the importance of applications as key elements to be managed, application architectures have evolved in such a way as to make monitoring application performance a real challenge.”i
“About four years ago, we began rebuilding Foglight, knowing that traditional monitoring would be obsolete in the complex business and IT environments of today,” said Doug Garn, CEO, Quest Software. “And we believe our position in the Leaders quadrant by Gartner confirms our expertise in the APM market. Now more than ever, we are committed to our mission of helping customers reduce cost and increase revenue by improving the way they manage their business-critical applications.”
To view the full Gartner report, visit http://www.quest.com/QuestSoftwarePR_GartnerAPMMQ_Foglight02192010. To learn more about Foglight, visit www.quest.com/foglight.
iGartner, Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring, Will Cappelli, February 18, 2010.
About Quest Software, Inc.
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About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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