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SharePoint Master Joel Oleson Joins Quest Software
Popular Blogger Brings Experience and Enthusiasm to Quest
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., November 21, 2008 – Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today announced that SharePoint expert Joel Oleson has joined Quest as a senior product manager and product evangelist on the SharePoint team. Oleson is a prominent SharePoint blogger, trainer, evangelist and architect for SharePoint. He is a frequent speaker at industry events such as TechEd and at various user groups around the world. “We are thrilled to have Joel on board,” said David Waugh, vice president of unified communications and collaboration at Quest Software. “Joel adds extensive SharePoint design and architecture experience to our team, and his product evangelism skills and general understanding of SharePoint greatly strengthen Quest’s standing as a thought leader in this space.” As a senior product manager and evangelist at Quest, Oleson will help set product direction and strategy within Quest’s SharePoint product team, while continuing his evangelism and blogging efforts. “I am excited about the opportunity to work with Quest to design and architect customer solutions and tools for their SharePoint challenges,” said Joel Oleson.”Quest has one of the most comprehensive tool sets for SharePoint on the market today. It will be rewarding for me to be a part of the team that drives these solutions and implements new technologies.” Oleson previously worked at Microsoft as a senior technical product manager for IT professionals. He designed the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint, as well as the extranet and hosted SharePoint deployments at Microsoft. Leading up to the release of SharePoint 2007, Oleson helped various customers get the critical governance information and critical best practices they needed to upgrade and achieve scale. Before working for Microsoft, Oleson was a senior web engineer at a large telecom organization where he architected multi-tiered web applications and multi-staged extranet deployments. Oleson’s well-read blog, www.sharepointjoel.com is one of the top SharePoint IT blogs. It is consumed in over 102 countries. About Quest Software, Inc. Quest Software, Inc., a leading enterprise systems management vendor, delivers innovative products that help organizations get more performance and productivity from their applications, databases, Windows infrastructure and virtual environments. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 100,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest provides customers with client management as well as server virtualization solutions through its subsidiaries ScriptLogic and Vizioncore. Quest’s Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions simplify, automate and secure Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, Windows Server, Office Communications Server and BlackBerry Server. Quest is the Microsoft Global ISV Partner of the year for 2004 and 2007. Quest Software can be found in offices around the globe and at www.quest.com. # # # Quest, Quest Software and the Quest logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Quest Software in the United States and certain other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Editorial Contact
Sara E. O'Malley
614.726.4768
sara.omalley@quest.com
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