Quest Software Breaks Down Barriers to Mobile Device Management
29 May 2012 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Quest Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:QSFT) - The growing popularity of
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives promises greater user
productivity and satisfaction, but it can come at a high cost to
the corporation—increased access and support issues as well as
heightened security risks—if not implemented correctly. While
traditional mobile device management (MDM) tools can help IT
control the devices accessing a network, they lack the ability to
integrate hardware and software inventory into one database and
console, which is the desired management environment to accommodate
diverse virtual offices and evolving user needs. As part of its
overarching User Workspace Management strategy, Quest announces new
solutions that let organizations seamlessly manage Microsoft-based
and non-traditional devices, data and applications.
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News Facts:
- Quest Software extends support for
Android, iPad, iPhone devices and Macs with new and updated Quest
Management Xtensions (QMX) solutions, which extend Microsoft System
Center Configuration Manager capabilities to over 120 non-Microsoft
platforms. With direct integration into System Center Configuration
Manager (SCCM), Quest QMX tools enable organizations to streamline
data access while leveraging a single pane of glass to simplify
management and security.
- Quest QMX extension for Android now
allows organizations to manage these prominent smartphones and
tablet devices through complete inventory, remote commands (wipe,
lock, password reset) and configuration.
- Additionally, Quest’s QMX extension for
Apple products support enhanced management capabilities to simplify
operation with corporate applications and data.
- The QMX extension for iOS incorporates
in-demand capabilities, including more detailed control and
management features to inventory, report on and distribute
applications and updates to these devices as well as keep the
organization secure with selective lock and wipe capabilities in
the event of a lost device.
- With the QMX extension for Mac,
administrators can use standardization and network readiness in
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager to deploy corporate
images to one or more Mac laptops and PowerBooks. This lets IT
quickly resurrect a device that an end-user had completely
destroyed.
- For virtual desktop environments, Quest
offers the vWorkspace® Connector for Android, Connector for iPad
1.2 and Connector for Mac OS X with latest releases that increase
performance and stability. These offerings help corporations
address the goals of organizational BYOD initiatives by delivering
line-of-business Windows applications to tablet devices.
- Direct, secure integration breaks down
barriers to managing mobile devices, delivering the new dynamic
workspace when and where users require, at the level of security
corporations demand.
Drake University opens the classroom doors to student devices
with Quest’s integrated tools
- Drake University is a private, fully
accredited, coeducational university located in Des Moines, Iowa
with more than 3,500 undergraduate and more than 2,100 graduate
students.
- Drake recently found that there was a
strong need for the student body, faculty and staff to have their
Apple products (Mac and iOS) coexist with Active Directory in its
environment, which is ultimately managed by Microsoft System Center
Configuration Manager. The university needed a way to integrate
these devices into its network without increasing management
complexity or creating security risks.
- Deploying QMX has allowed Drake to
immediately benefit from comprehensive, centralized yet simplified
management across all hardware and software in its network. One
database now stores all data, and one console provides views into
the entire network, resulting in significant time savings to
perform software updates and on-going management functions. Audits
that used to take 50 hours now take less than five minutes, while
reducing cost and risk associated with licensing compliance.
Additionally, the university expects to save thousands of dollars
in hardware refreshes each year.
Supporting Quotes:
- Shayne Higdon, senior vice president
and general manager, User Workspace Management and Monitoring,
Quest Software
"IT departments are finding that the old, limited way of
integrating ‘non-traditional’ devices, such as Android, iPhones,
iPads and MacBooks, into a primarily Microsoft enterprise only adds
more complexity. Quest recognizes that in order to manage these
devices seamlessly, efficiently and securely, you need to integrate
them directly into existing management platforms that hold user
data. With our new and updated QMX tools, Quest can empower
organizations to transform what would have been a dumb terminal
into a truly valuable and secure extension of the user office
environment.”
- Ben Hector, network engineer 2,
Drake University
“At Drake University, we’ve seen the rapid adoption of Mac OS
and iOS devices over the past two years, but we were unable to
track and monitor them properly. We deployed Quest Management
Extensions (QMX), which directly integrates with our management
system to pull in data on both hardware and software into one
database. The deployment of QMX was a no-brainer—it allows our
university management to address compliance and budget concerns
while letting our IT organization simplify device management across
disparate platforms and hardware.”
Supporting Resources:
- Quest Software, Inc.:
http://www.quest.com/
- Learn more about the QMX iOS extension:
http://community-downloads.quest.com/management-extensions/Video/iOS_v2/index.html
- Watch the QMX iOS extension in action:
http://community-downloads.quest.com/management-extensions/Video/iOS/QMX-Configuration_Manager_iOS.html
- More Quest news:
http://www.quest.com/newsroom/
- Twitter:
http://mobile.twitter.com/quest
- Facebook:
http://www.quest.com/facebook
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/
- Quest TV: http://www.quest.com/tv/
About Quest:
Established in 1987, Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT) provides
simple and innovative IT management solutions that enable more than
100,000 global customers to save time and money across physical and
virtual environments. Quest products solve complex IT
challenges ranging from database management, data protection,
identity and access management, monitoring, user workspace
management to Windows management
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