New Technology Fits SQL Server Backups in the Palm of Your Hand

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. – Quest Software, Inc.  (Nasdaq: QSFT) today unveiled SmartDiff, an innovative, patent-pending technology built into the latest version of its market-leading backup and recovery solution, LiteSpeed^®for SQL Server. With SmartDiff, LiteSpeed for SQL Server‘s compression ratio jumps from 20:1 up to 40:1, providing powerful SQL backup compression that is comparable to storing more than a terabyte of data on a single USB thumb drive. The result is a unique backup and recovery approach, unmatched in flexibility, that greatly reduces backup times, creates a significantly smaller storage footprint, and maintains a high level of recoverability.

“I’ve relied on LiteSpeed for six years to achieve what I already considered substantial time and disk savings for backup and recovery,” said Thomas LaRock, database administrator at a financial services company. “I’m excited that Quest has introduced new technology that takes this to a whole new level, and continues to add even more value to a tool that helps me do my job more efficiently and instantly saves my organization money.”

Current backup and recovery best practices involve conducting full database backups every night in preparation for disaster recovery scenarios. Because only a small percentage of an organization’s data changes on a daily basis, full database backups are inefficient, while incremental backups require more time and resources than necessary. SmartDiff reduces backup size so substantially that backup times can literally go from hours to minutes, while providing huge storage savings.

“With SmartDiff, Quest brings deduplication technology to SQL Server, continuing the kind of ground-breaking innovation that LiteSpeed has delivered since its inception,” said Billy Bosworth, vice president and general manager of the SQL Server business unit, Quest Software. “SmartDiff provides the amazing levels of storage savings customers need, while also dramatically decreasing backup times – a benefit that often is just as valuable.”

To learn more about LiteSpeed for SQL Server and SmartDiff, visit http://www.quest.com/litespeed-for-sql-server/.

About Quest Software, Inc.

Quest Software, Inc., a leading enterprise systems management vendor, delivers innovative products that help organizations get more performance and productivity from their applications, databases, Windows infrastructure and virtual environments. Quest also provides customers with client management through its ScriptLogic subsidiary and server virtualization management through its Vizioncore subsidiary. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 100,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest Software helps organizations deliver, manage and control complex database environments through award-winning products for Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase and MySQL. Quest Software can be found in offices around the globe and at www.quest.com.

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