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New Software From Quickshift Increases Microsoft SQL Server and Windows Server Performance By More Than 100 Percent; Patented Technology Increases Performance Without Costly Hardware or Software Upgrades

Posted on: Monday, 18 July 2005, 09:03 CDT

Quickshift Inc., an innovative developer of performance acceleration technology, today announced the availability of two new software products that improve the performance of Microsoft SQL Server and Windows Server environments by more that 100 percent. Dubbed Quickshift for Microsoft SQL Server and Quickshift for Microsoft Windows Server, the two products allow organizations to leverage their current investments in hardware and software infrastructure and achieve breakthrough performance increases for their business applications. Organizations that have tested and used the new software have significantly accelerated database and application processing for a fraction of the cost of database and software upgrades, hardware purchases, or on-site technical support.

Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Montana is one of several leading companies using Quickshift products to help enhance the performance of its Microsoft Windows and SQL Server based environments. Before using Quickshift, running a financial application at BCBS Montana would take as long as 15 hours, delaying critical business decision-making information and consuming valuable IT resources.

"When we first tested Quickshift with our financial modeling applications, we thought the performance enhancements were too good to be true," said Chuck Jagger, Director of Enterprise Architecture & Data Warehouse for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana. "Without changing the software or hardware we had in place, we reduced the time it took to run data modeling jobs from 15 hours to four and a half hours. I would recommend Quickshift to anyone running Microsoft SQL Server to improve database performance."

Quickshift's patented technology is able to deliver breakthrough improvements because it tackles inefficiencies at the operating system level to improve data and transaction flow. Because the products work at the operating system level, they dramatically increase performance across most business applications, especially the ones that rely on databases for their operation.

Blue Cross Blue Shield is one of many organizations to benefit from Quickshift's technology to improve database performance. For example, Gartner Group more than doubled performance of its Microsoft SQL Server-based applications. Extensive testing by a number of third parties has also shown dramatic performance improvements in other Microsoft Windows Server-based environments, including Exchange Server, Web Server and other I/O intensive business applications. In addition, BMC Software has extensively tested and validated the software and is an approved reseller of Quickshift's products. Quickshift has also received Microsoft certification though Veritest.

Key Features

Database administrators can download Quickshift software (at www.quickshift.com) to experience the benefits of breakthrough performance improvement for databases, email and messaging applications, business intelligence applications, web sites and any other I/O intensive application. Quickshift key product features include:

-- Rapid implementation with installation in less than a minute;

-- Immediate measurable performance increases;

-- A solution that is transparent to your applications, device drivers, and operating system;

-- Seamless operation and low TCO with little to no additional hardware, tuning, application rewrites, or disruption.

"IT organizations invest far too much time and money on performance tuning, system upgrades, application rewrites and additional hardware in order to achieve only incremental performance and efficiency increases," said Dan Keelan, chief executive officer of Quickshift Inc. "At Quickshift, we've cracked the code to deliver breakthrough performance for existing business applications. Our robust, non-intrusive, proven line of products for Microsoft SQL and Windows Server environments helps IT organizations unleash the power of their mission-critical and business intelligence applications while reducing IT costs, maintenance and application down-time."

Pricing and Availability

Quickshift solutions are currently available for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Windows Server. Organizations can evaluate these products at no cost by registering at www.quickshift.com. Pricing for Quickshift for Windows Server and Quickshift for MS SQL starts at $999.00 with volume discounts for quantity purchases.

About Quickshift Inc.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Quickshift is the leading provider of software products that deliver breakthrough performance improvement of more than 100 percent for database servers and related business applications. Quickshift products help IT organizations reduce spending on database upgrades, performance tuning, hardware purchases and support. The products are based on the company's patented database optimization technology, which was performance tested by BMC and Microsoft certified through Veritest. Quickshift is led by experienced technology veterans, including executives from Oracle, i2, IBM, AT&T Bell Labs, Tandem and Pyramid. Quickshift is a privately held company with funding from CenterPoint Ventures, InterWest Partners and STARTech Early Ventures.

Quickshift is a registered trademark of Quickshift Inc. All other names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Source: Business Wire

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