Quest Software vs VMware

Since 1987, Quest has provided software solutions for the constantly evolving world of enterprise IT. Quest solutions protect and empower users and data, streamline IT operations and harden cybersecurity from the inside out. Quest has the experience to help you manage and monitor your databases, take control of your hybrid environments and secure them all with security solutions that ensure you are ready for the next threat.

VMware, Inc. is a US software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services, VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while its enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, are bare-metal hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system. In 1998, VMware was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion. Greene and Rosenblum, who are married, first met while at the University of California, Berkeley.