Motorola Selects Quest Software To Manage Windows 2000 And Active Directory Migration Project

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, April 8, 2002

Quest Software Inc. (Nasdaq:QSFT), a provider of application management solutions, has announced that Motorola has selected Quest's FastLane Suite to manage a 90,000 user migration to Windows 2000 and Active Directory.

"At Motorola, our Active Directory infrastructure is an important component in ensuring effective delivery of services to our end-user community, so it was necessary that we purchase an efficient and scalable management tool," said Helen Camacho, manager of Windows Infrastructure, Global Infrastructure Solutions, Motorola.

"During our evaluation of competitive offerings, we focused on robustness and scalability. The Quest solutions came out ahead of the other offerings based on their unique, directory-enabled design. Several competitive solutions would require us to deploy proprietary management servers throughout our environment; FastLane ActiveRoles did not. That was a key architectural decision criterion for us."

FastLane ActiveRoles is the only Active Directory (AD)-enabled management solution that offers role-based administration, data integrity enforcement and group policy management within a single application.

It is also the only true AD-enabled application that fully leverages the native delegation and multi-master model of AD. FastLane Migrator completely automates Active Directory migrations and works seamlessly with FastLane ActiveRoles.

"FastLane ActiveRoles is ideal for large, multi-national Active Directory implementations, like Motorola plans to carry out," said David Waugh, vice president of product marketing, Microsoft Solutions for Quest Software.

"Since FastLane ActiveRoles leverages the native security model and infrastructure of Active Directory itself, our solution automatically molds to the requirements of the customer. As more large enterprise customers deploy Active Directory, it is becoming clear they require the flexibility that a directory-enabled design offers. This is why companies such as Motorola are choosing Quest's FastLane ActiveRoles."