Quest KACE
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Quest KACE, formerly Dell KACE, is a company that specializes in
History
KACE started in 2003 when Rob Meinhardt and Marty Kacin founded and self-funded the company for over two years. KACE subsequently received venture capital funding from Sigma Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Focus Ventures. KACE developed appliances designed to help IT personnel more efficiently provision, manage, secure, and service network-connected devices.[citation needed]
In 2007, their competitors included
On February 11, 2010, KACE announced its acquisition by Dell.[2] KACE family appliances were then sold by Dell. In 2012, KACE became a part of the Dell Software group.[3]
On November 1, 2016,
Architecture
Since before the company's acquisition by Dell, KACE appliances were sold as physical
KACE uses FreeBSD, and all collected data is stored in a number of MariaDB databases.[citation needed] Although, all management of the device and the data in the system goes (only) via the web-GUI, users have developed their own interfaces with other management systems by accessing the databases directly.[citation needed] It is also possible to integrate a KACE appliance in third party IT management suites.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Matt Hines (October 18, 2007). "IT security and management on collision course". Info World. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
- ^ Andrew Nusca (February 11, 2010). "Dell acquires KACE; expands systems management to mid-size business". ZDNet blog. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
- ^ "Dell's New Software Division Integrates – Kace's New Role". 26 September 2012.
- ^ "Francisco Partners and Elliott Management to Acquire the Dell Software Group". www.franciscopartners.com. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
- ^ "Francisco Partners and Elliott Management Complete Acquisition of Dell Software Group". www.franciscopartners.com. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
- ^ "KACE is Now Quest Software!". www.kace.com. Retrieved 2017-03-16.