Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT), a leading provider of application, database and Windows management solutions, today announced that Magellan Health Services, Inc., a leading managed behavioral health care organization, has completed its migration of approximately 3.6 terabytes of data from Oracle 8i to Oracle 9i with the help of Quest SharePlex®. Magellan chose SharePlex for its fast database replication and resynchronization capabilities, along with the ability for the database administration team to remain in control of the source and target database.

“The replication speed and resynchronization utilities were major factors in our decision to select SharePlex. The efficiency with which data is copied from one database to the other on a different server is outstanding,” said Mike Jones, lead database administrator at Magellan. “We were impressed with the degree of control we had over the replication process. Particularly, the ability to handle the stopping and starting of replication on either the source or target database is very handy for replication of multi-terabyte databases. Also, the way SharePlex integrates seamlessly with Oracle is a major benefit of the software.”

Because SharePlex expedites upgrades, Quest Software provided Magellan with more time to look at data integrity issues and conduct more in-depth testing, which ultimately resulted in more efficiently performing systems when the upgrade was complete.

“With SharePlex, we were able to adeptly create the new Oracle 9i database, which allowed us to take advantage of Oracle 9i features earlier. Some of our database instances have realized performance gains of 100 percent since the upgrade to Oracle 9i,” said Russell Cook, manager of Oracle database administration for Magellan.

“We are proud to provide customers like Magellan Health Services the products that enable them to take advantage of Oracle 9i features quickly with less downtime,” said Juli Ackerman, vice president, database management solutions, Quest Software. ”In addition, SharePlex is used in several other scenarios where system availability and performance is threatened. In the event of a disaster, data corruption, overload or planned outage, SharePlex dramatically reduces downtime and allows organizations to get more from their critical databases and applications”

About Quest Database Management Solutions

Quest Software is a leading provider of heterogeneous database management solutions for distributed systems. Quest delivers award-winning products that simplify and automate the management of Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase and MySQL database platforms.