Quest Sees Opportunity in Cassandra – Adds Support in Toad for Cloud Databases, Signs Alliance Agreement with Riptano

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today added Apache Cassandra, an open-source NoSQL database, to its list of supported NoSQL platforms with the second beta release of Toad^® for Cloud Databases. Toad now supports data access and management for Apache Cassandra, Amazon SimpleDB, Microsoft Azure Table Services, Apache HBase, and any Open Database Connectivity-enabled relational database.

“From our expertise and experience with Apache Cassandra, we see a real opportunity for large enterprise customers – whose data centers are primarily built on traditional RDBMS platforms – to take advantage of emerging, highly scalable platforms like Cassandra”

The release comes on the heels of a recent technology alliance with Riptano, the company providing software, support, and services for Cassandra, to perform research on enterprise needs and use cases for deploying Cassandra.

“Quest is helping increase enterprise use of NoSQL databases by developing products such as Toad for Cloud Databases that integrate these new, lower cost platforms into existing enterprise information systems,” said Christian Hasker, director of product management for database management at Quest Software. “We believe the NoSQL movement is here to stay, and based on the activity and interest we’ve monitored in social media communities, combined with adoption by high-profile customers, we’re convinced that Cassandra will be a long-term winner. As such, we wanted to team up with the known experts in this space – Riptano – to help reduce the learning curve associated with adopting this platform.”

The technology alliance provides the underpinnings for Quest and Riptano to investigate the need for tools around monitoring, diagnostics and data movement between relational databases and Cassandra that would provide multi-data center replication. Depending on the companies’ research findings, plans to develop such tools could be in the works for 2011.

Quest and Riptano will share their findings and educate the community on Cassandra’s benefits primarily through CloudDBPedia, a product-neutral online knowledgebase for free education and training on NoSQL and cloud databases. CloudDBPedia provides videos, podcasts, blogs, and a community-run wiki focused on various NoSQL technologies, like Cassandra.

“From our expertise and experience with Apache Cassandra, we see a real opportunity for large enterprise customers – whose data centers are primarily built on traditional RDBMS platforms – to take advantage of emerging, highly scalable platforms like Cassandra,” said Matt Pfeil, co-founder and CEO, Riptano. “Through our technology alliance with Quest, a company that knows the RDBMS market inside and out, we’ve laid the groundwork to help the market better understand the clear benefits of Cassandra, and successfully deploy it within the enterprise.”

About Quest Software, Inc.
Quest Software simplifies and reduces the cost of managing IT for more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Our innovative solutions make solving the toughest IT management problems easier, enabling customers to save time and money across physical, virtual and cloud environments. For more information about Quest go to www.quest.com.

About Riptano
Riptano provides companies with a scalable high performance database solution in Apache Cassandra. We offer the expertise, solutions, and services that allow those companies to build and run solutions on top of the Cassandra open source project. Riptano is the company for Apache Cassandra.

Quest, Quest Software, Toad and the Quest logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Quest Software in the United States and certain other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Web Links Referenced in this Release:
Quest Software, Inc: http://www.quest.com/
Toad^® for Cloud Databases: http://www.quest.com/toad-for-cloud-databases/
Riptano: http://www.riptano.com/
CloudDBPedia: http://www.clouddbpedia.com/