Explosive evolution.

• Author: Beers, Heather
• Position: Tech Talk - PowerQuest Corp. - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included

The first time PowerQuest was dipped in Utah Business ink, the Orem-based storage management company was cited as one of six "below-the-radar Utah companies worth watching."

Four years later, with sales in 34 countries, products translated into eight languages and 300 employees worldwide, it's safe to say the prediction was right.

PowerQuest has grown tremendously, with over $60 million in annual revenue today. "Given the harsh climate in the world, it's rare to have profitability in this economy, and we're proud to say we are profitable," says Steve Fairbanks, vice president of PowerQuest product management.

Fairbanks credits the company's success to strategic product evolution and expert leadership.

From its initial launch to its current offering of holistic storage management solutions, PowerQuest has survived IT's Darwinian demise by evolving with market needs.

In 1995, its first product, PartitionMagic, quickly became a top seller in the desktop arena, and it remains so today.

By 1997, PowerQuest sensed its greater potential in developing solutions for the corporate world. Now, products like PowerQuest DeployCenter[TM] 5.0 and PowerQuest PowerExpert SRM 5.0 help enterprises manage the complete lifecycle of their storage.

"Our products provide management from cradle to grave -- from deployment of data to protection to daily management," says Fairbanks. He explains how DeployCenter facilitates upgrades by extracting all the personality, profiles, settings, data and applications from the current system and reapplying them to the robust new operating system. DeployCenter also enables secure disk erasure, enabling a company to dispose of or donate computer...