| OuterBay Technologies and Quest Software Announce Alliance to Deliver Real-Time Data Archiving Solution; Customers Gain Real-Time Access to Historical Data for Reporting SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2001ERROR MSG -- OuterBay Technologies, provider of software products for mastering applications and database data growth, and Quest Software, Inc. (NasdaqNM:QSFT), a leading provider of application management solutions, today announced their formal alliance. Under the terms of the agreement, OuterBay and Quest will participate in joint sales and marketing activities beginning the first quarter of 2002. By combining OuterBay's application data archiving with Quest's real-time replication, customers will gain real-time, high performance, low cost, and easily administered access to historical data for reporting, analysis, and audit requirements. In addition, customers will benefit with higher performance in production, mission-critical transaction systems. The integration of OuterBay's LiveArchive data management solution and Quest's SharePlex data replication solution means that customers can gain the significant performance benefits of each product while simplifying their infrastructure, reducing cost and providing business users a one-stop archive and real-time reporting environment. OuterBay's LiveArchive improves performance by allowing customers to shrink the size of their production database by removing historical data and at the same time providing user access to history data in an online archive database. Quest's SharePlex improves performance of online transaction processing applications by allowing customers to shift reporting and query load to a real time reporting replica database. The integrated implementation of LiveArchive and SharePlex will allow customers to create a single combined archive and real time reporting environment. "The benefits of an integrated real time reporting and archive environment are well worth looking at," said Sean Meighan, Manager of Performance and Architecture at Sun Microsystems. "The integration of Quest's SharePlex and OuterBay's LiveArchive has the potential to reduce storage and operations costs and provide a value add to the business user by reducing the number of places they have to look for data." "Managing massive amounts of transactional and historical data, while meeting the real-time reporting requirements of users are enormous challenges for today's IT managers," said Rich Butterfield, CEO of OuterBay Technologies. "The integration of LiveArchive and SharePlex means customers will have a powerful solution that dramatically improves application performance and provides complete access to both current transactions and history data in a single database." "By using the combination of OuterBay's LiveArchive and SharePlex, we can provide an even better solution to our customer and prospects for reporting purposes," said Todd Starnes, Business Alliance Manager of Quest Software. "Furthermore, LiveArchive leverages the SharePlex technology to aid in the archiving process. Through the integration of our products, the customer gains the benefits of data archiving without any business downtime." About Quest Software Quest Software, Inc. is a leading provider of application management solutions. Our products increase the performance and uptime of business-critical applications while driving down the total cost associated with running those applications. By focusing on both the people and technology that make applications run, Quest Software enables IT professionals to achieve more with fewer resources. Quest Software is based in Irvine, California and has offices around the globe. For more information, visit www.quest.com. cheap hotel in CologneAbout OuterBay Technologies OuterBay Technologies is a leading provider of software products for mastering applications data growth. Through proactive archiving of production databases, customers improve application performance, minimize downtime for upgrades and maintenance, reduce storage costs, and provide users continuous access to historical data. Founded in 1997 by four database technologists, OuterBay Technologies is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Europe and Australia. Customers include Fortune 1000 and emerging global economy leaders, spanning high technology, manufacturing, financial services, and other industries. For more information, contact OuterBay at www.outerbay.com or 408.557.6100. Note to editors: OuterBay and LiveArchive are trademarks of OuterBay Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks referenced herein remain the property of their respective owners. Hoteles LeipzigQuest and Quest Software are trademarks, and SharePlex is a registered trademark, of Quest Software, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. # # # CONTACT:
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