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The change management and application lifecycle benefits of Visual Studio are no longer just for SQL Server! Meet Toad® Extension for Visual Studio - access educational resources below, including a product demo and a recorded webcast.

Toad Extension for Visual Studio is an Oracle database schema provider that goes beyond online development to offer you:

  • Easier Oracle development in Visual Studio 2010
  • Oracle change management for application teams
  • Assurance that application code is synchronized with the database
  • Team collaboration and Microsoft’s application lifecycle management methodology

If your organization develops on Visual Studio and Oracle, learn how you can say goodbye to inadequate, manual and risky processes!

Learn more about Toad Extension for Visual Studio now via these resources!

  • Visit the product page
  • Download trial software
  • View a product demo
  • View a recorded webcast on Application Lifecycle Management in the Oracle Environment
  • Join the community

Quest Software announced a new release of vWorkspace, a single virtualization solution for application delivery and desktop deployments. The new release includes major functionality enhancemenys including EOP Xtreme to speed WAN performance, and integration with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services to automate deployment and administration, and simplify use.

Available now, the new Quest vWorkspace version 7.1 supports multiple centralized desktop platforms, including Microsoft Hyper-V-based virtual desktops, Remote Desktop Session hosts (formely known as Terminal Servers) and physical/blade PCs. vWorkspace securely and efficiently delivers advanced management capabilities including connection brokering, desktop provisioning and user experience optimizations, and provides support for Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. For more information please visit: http://www.quest.com/vworkspace/new-release.aspx

Quest Software today announced plans to showcase at COLLABORATE 2010 a new release of Toad® for Oracle that provides even greater automation in Oracle development, administration, and query and reporting. The newest version of Toad for Oracle continues to build upon the next-generation enhancements of Toad 10, saving money for the organization and time for the end user. Quest also announced three speaking sessions for the conference, presented by Steven Feuerstein, PL/SQL evangelist, and Dave Pearson, senior product manager. Toad for Oracle 10.5 will be available on April 21.

Quest Software just released a new version of Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange, with support for Exchange 2010. Notes Migrator simplifies the migration process, increasing predictability, mitigating the risks and reducing the costs associated with Notes migrations. Notes Migrator for Exchange is part of Quest’s suite of Notes transition solutions. Quest provides a complete migration solution to Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications Server and the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), along with products for pre-migration assessment, coexistence and application rebuilding. Quest also offers a global sales force, a certified partner community and 24/7/365 support.

Accessing, discovering and sharing data is now even easier. The release of Toad for Data Analysts 2.5 makes your job as a data detective even easier with new and enhanced features, including:

  • An enhanced query builder - pivots and charts are now built directly into the query builder, enabling you to change queries on the fly without switching screens
  • New compare and sync functionality - ODBC support has been added for all database platforms, allowing you to compare and synchronize data between an even greater range of sources
  • Enhancements to automation - loops and variables are now supported for more flexibility and more powerful scripts
  • FTP support - it's now possible to upload and publish work to an FTP server, for even more options in report distribution.

Quest Software announced the newest version of SharePlex® for Oracle, the leading low impact, real-time database replication solution that supports high availability, reporting, data movement and application integration on Oracle databases. Key features introduced in the new version include wildcard support, batch processing and configuration management enhancements to SharePlex’s monitoring and management dashboard, SharePlex Manager.

IT staffs charged with maintaining continuous access to business-critical data are presented with a significant challenge in today’s complex environments. The new version of SharePlex will simplify the tasks associated with managing large, complex Oracle replication topologies and bring added ease of use for reporting, warehousing, workload isolation, scalability and highly available migrations or upgrades.

On May 12th 2009, Quest Software unveiled a complete update of its award-winning solution portfolio for SQL Server at Tec-Ed 2009. Quest Software's industry-leading solutions are built to tackle the challenges faced by SQL Server professionals across all key areas of database management. Paired with free access to SQLServerPedia, the follwing product release provide the community with the mosto comprehensive portfolio of solutions for SQL Server in the market.

Quest Software announced the advanced version of Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint, a management and reporting solution that empowers businesses to understand, secure and efficiently manage their SharePoint environments. The latest version now includes permissions management and critical auditing capabilities that address timely concerns with SharePoint availability, security and compliance.

For years Quest Software has provided the SQL Market with advanced, high-performance backup compression and encryption via LiteSpeed for SQL Server. Now Quest Software brings the same high-quality, cost-cutting backup and recovery technology to the Oracle platform with LiteSpeed Engine for Oracle.
The strain of today's current market conditions combined with increasingly high-volume, diverse database environments underscores the need for quickly realized cost savings and optimal use of IT resources. LiteSpeed Engine for Oracle offers database administrators (DBAs) and advanced tool that cuts storage costs, reduces backup and restore times and delivers a solid return-on-investment. Oracle DBAs charged with handling secure backup and recovery strategies on a lean budget can realize 70 to 90 percent compression with LiteSpeed while maintaining complete control over the backup and recovery process.

Quest Software announces the launch of Coexistence Manager for Notes, the newest addition to its industry leading set of migration solutions. The solution allows organizations to utilize both IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange Server simultaneously while either migrating from Notes to Exchange or during a prolonged coexistence scenario, all without disrupting daily end user activities.

In a recent survey of IT executives and managers, Forrester Research reported that 59% of the respondents had either completed or were actively executing an IT consolidation effort that involved server, storage or whole data center consolidation. 

While reducing costs was named as a primary motivating factor, Quest Software has observed that the lack of guidelines or tools is a major issue. Quest offers a consolidation guide that outlines best practices and provides ways to use Quest tools that enable SQL Server database administrators (DBAs) to easily plan and execute a consolidation project.

Quest Software, Inc. today announced the addition of predictive diagnostics to its Spotlight® on Oracle product, which thousands of customers use to find and fix database performance bottlenecks in real time. The new predictive capabilities extend Spotlight's value and allow users to predict the future performance of SQL statements.

Spotlight on Oracle analyzes SQL performance to determine which statements will have the most performance degradation given trends in execution rates and overall database load. Spotlight reports the anticipated growth in resource consumption and the percentage of the total load a particular statement will consume. By finding problematic SQL statements before performance is impacted, corrective actions can be taken without disrupting end users and organizations can more effectively meet end user Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

Microsoft continues to gain e-mail market share, and will grow its holding throughout 2009. Many businesses are considering moving to Microsoft platforms such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 from their current platforms, including Lotus Notes. 
Quest Software, Inc. has a set of tools designed to migrate mailboxes and applications off of Notes, and to help manage and rebuild applications in the new environment.

Quest's comprehensive set of solutions migrate and manage the data of organizations wishing to transition off Lotus Notes to a Microsoft platform.