CyberCash Selects Quest's High Availability Solution for Its Mission-Critical Oracle Database.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1999-- Quest Software The computer-software manufacturer Quest Software (Quest Software, Inc.) (NASDAQ: QSFT), headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, dates from 1987. Quest develops, sells, and supports database management, Windows management, and application management software products Inc., (Nasdaq: QSFT) Wednesday announced that CyberCash Inc., (Nasdaq: CYCH), the world leader in e-commerce technologies and services for merchants, has chosen Quest's SharePlex(R) for Oracle replication solution to ensure the high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. of their mission-critical business applications. CyberCash will be using SharePlex for its InstaBuy(TM) one-click shopping solution and CashRegister payment service, as well as all other internal routing databases used for maintaining connectivity. SharePlex will be used to replicate in excess of 150GB of data to other databases in real time. "We chose SharePlex for its speed of replication, flexibility and low network consumption. Our users require 99.95+ percent availability and SharePlex allows us to guarantee that level of service. SharePlex satisfies our complex and difficult requirements for replication," said Joe Monteil, vice president of operations for CyberCash. SharePlex is a high availability replication solution that both improves response time of critical business transactions and reduces application down time. Using a high-performance, low-overhead design, SharePlex provides an accessible copy of the production database that is used to off load ad-hoc queries and reports that degrade Online Transaction Processing See transaction processing and OLCP. (OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing ) response time, and provides a live standby database for disaster avoidance. Quest Software provides application and information availability software solutions that enhance the performance and reliability of an organization's e-business, enterprise and custom applications and enable the delivery of information across the entire enterprise. Quest Software has headquarters in Irvine and has locations in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. 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