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http://www.quest-software.co.uk/newsroom/news-releases-show.aspx?contentid=12101

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Aug. 26, 2010 – Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today announced the release of Quest^® Cloud Automation Platform 7.5, its next generation of enterprise-class cloud automation and management technology. Originally developed by recently acquired Surgient, Quest Cloud Automation Platform enables IT to maximize the utilization of cloud infrastructure, fully automate the delivery of complex IT services, and automatically reclaim unused infrastructure, driving down IT costs and delivering unmatched productivity gains across the enterprise. The Surgient acquisition is part of Quest’s greater virtualization and cloud strategy, which will be formally unveiled Aug. 31 at an invitation-only event for media and analysts during VMworld. Those interested in attending should contact Daphne Kent at daphne.kent@quest.com or Ken Montgomery at ken.montgomery@quest.com.

“The Quest platform (formerly Surgient) is designed to work alongside a customer’s in-place helpdesk system, IT service catalog, CMDB, runbook automation framework, and so on. It assumes the presence of virtual infrastructure from VMware or Microsoft, and plays nicely with physical provisioning and automation from the likes of HP and Symantec,” said Rachel Chalmers, research director of infrastructure management at The 451 Group. “What it adds to these is a self-service portal backed by automated service delivery and recovery, just-in-time self-service and scalable, user-centric services. In practice, this means that IT operators can configure resources and policies, users can request services as needed, and [the platform] manages the provisioning, use and recovery of the underlying resources. Presto—private cloud.”

Automating day to day activities has been something that CIOs have been talking about, the concept of self service portals where the user can create their platform, whether it’s a virtual machine or provision their next generation application as we have seen with HP’s BladeSystemMatrix, I’m off to read up more about it, anything vendors and service providers alike can do to improve the accessibility of the technology, to hand more control to the end user whilst enabling the facilities and functionality needed for securing the platform and monitoring utilization and capacity has to be a good thing, I’ll need to read up more.

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