Quest is pleased to announce the  acquisition of Surgient, a leader in private cloud automation software.  Located in Austin, Texas, privately held Surgient is a strategic acquisition for Quest and accelerates Quest's ongoing cloud management solutions strategy.   Cloud Express™ from Surgient is the ultimate private cloud acceleration tool that  enables enterprise organizations to deploy and measure a successful enterprise class private cloud.  With Cloud Express organizations can create robust, secure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds to efficiently manage and deliver complex IT services across the enterprise.  For more information please read Quest's  press release - click here- or visit Surgient on the web at http://www.surgient.com/.