Welcome to this blog – the who, the what, and the why…
Thanks for visiting our product community site. As I type this first post I am sitting with one of our development teams in Madison, WI, learning the ropes a bit in my new role.
What is my new role? I am now responsible for both product management and marketing for all our SQL Server products at Quest. Until recently I was responsible for only the marketing aspects of our portfolio, so I am on quite the learning curve. In some ways this blog is our first order of business. We have heard consistently from you, our customers, that you love our products (thank you for that), but that you want to know more about them. Our products tend to be extremely feature rich and can do a lot. In this blog and throughout this community site in general we want to help you get more out of the tools you have invested in. Want to know how or whether it’s possible to do something in one of our tools? Want to communicate directly with the product managers for our products? Got a recommendation for a feature enhancement you would like to see? This site’s the place for you.
Our team consists of some passionate, dedicated individuals:
Performance Management Products (Spotlight, Foglight Performance Analysis, Capacity Manager) – Ari Weil. Ari has had a wide range of responsibilities since joining Quest. He was initially one of the developers working on Performance Analysis for SQL Server, then moved to the US and became a Systems Consultant, then last year he took over product management responsibilities for our performance management portfolio. You can contact Ari via the forums here or email him directly: ariel.weil@quest.com.
Backup and Recovery (LiteSpeed) – Andy Grant. Like Ari Andy has worn loads of hats over the years, which makes him perfectly suited to the product management world. He has been a sales rep, an SC, and a product marketing manager. Andy was also responsible for founding our general knowledge base site, http://sqlserverpedia.com. More on that later. Andy’s email address is andy.grant@quest.com.
Development and Administration (Toad for SQL Server and Change Director) – David Gugick. David joined Quest from Imceda, where he was the original founder and development lead on a product called Coefficient. In addition for being the driving force for the products in parentheses he works closely with our CTO, Douglas Chrystall, as an architect across our database managment products.
Product Marketing – Heather Eichman. Last year Heather moved to our UK office and is now responsible for our marketing strategy in Europe, as well as overseeing our customer advisory board, and programs based here in North America. Heather’s a great person to know if you would like to do any writing or presenting on SQL Server or are interested in joining our customer advisory board, and you can contact her at heather.eichman@quest.com.
Community Advocate and SQL Server Evangelist – Brent Ozar. Brent probably needs no introduction, but just in case, here we go. Brent joined Quest in 2008, having been a customer of ours before that as a SQL Server DBA. Brent is now the driving force behind our community initiatives, at SQLServerPedia and spends most of his time educating people about SQL Server, either through his writings or presentations. He is Editor-in-Chief of SQLServerPedia and oversees the editorial board. If you would like to get involved in the community there are so many ways to contact Brent, including telepathy sometimes. Feel free to contact him at brent.ozar@quest.com.
Community Site development – Brett Epps. Brett is currently an undergraduate at University of Madison, and is the lead developer on both this site and SQLServerPedia. Got an idea for making our sites better, contact brett.epps@quest.com.
Over the coming weeks I’ll be highlighting some of our developers and other people that are an integral part of our team, but for now I’ll sign off – please feel free to contact me directly at christian.hasker@quest.com.
