Legato Systems announces the industry's first enterprise storage management solution for Microsoft Windows NT; includes Microsoft BackOffice integration

Business Wire, Oct 23, 1995

Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:LGTO), a leading provider of client/server-based enterprise storage management software, today announced NetWorker for the Microsoft Windows NT server network operating system, the first native Windows NT server-based enterprise storage management application designed specifically for protecting mission-critical data and applications on Windows NT workgroups or mixed platform enterprises.

NetWorker for Windows NT sets a new standard for protecting data for Windows NT-based data by offering the following capabilities: comprehensive data protection for multi-platform environments, widest platform support in the industry, consistent network-wide administration, high performance, mainframe-class media management, and unique modularity.

In addition, NetWorker for Windows NT will offer the best "out of the box" integration with Microsoft BackOffice family.

NetWorker for Windows NT, Version 4.2, is a native Windows NT-based application that runs as a Windows NT-based service, and allow customers to set up a local workgroup backup server or a centralized storage management server for mixed platform installations including the MS-DOS operating system, the Windows operating system, Windows NT, Windows for Workgroups, OS/2, UNIX, Macintosh and NetWare systems.

Michael Peterson, president of Strategic Research Corp., Santa Barbara, Calif., said: "There is a pent-up demand for an enterprise-class product that operates on Windows NT. I'm hearing from administrators that larger sites are not buying into the point-solution backup strategy.

"They are waiting for a suitable product to come to market. Legato's NetWorker for Windows NT is the first product that uses NT as the host backup server in an enterprise solution."

"This is an important announcement for corporate customers," said Mike Nash, group product manager, business systems division, at Microsoft. "NetWorker for Windows NT provides a powerful Windows NT-based network storage management solution which unifies and consolidates storage management across workgroups, departments and multi-platform systems," concluded Nash.

"With Windows NT and Microsoft BackOffice, Microsoft has redefined the server's role within an enterprise by providing a flexible platform for business applications.

"Windows NT enhances the server's role beyond file and print services and therefore dramatically increases the importance of the data resident on Windows NT-based application servers and attached desktops," said Louis C. Cole, president and chief executive officer of Legato Systems.

"Protecting this mission-critical data is not well served by today's backup utilities. Network managers need a more reliable, scalable and high performance network storage management solution that they can trust and grow with. NetWorker for Windows NT will be the software they will trust," Cole concluded.

NetWorker Product Family for Windows NT

NetWorker for Windows NT will be offered in two configurations: Server Edition and Network Edition. The Server Edition is ideal for homogeneous Windows NT workgroups where reliable, standalone backup is desired, including protection of Microsoft BackOffice applications.

The Network Edition is ideal for mixed platform environments where the Windows NT application server is configured as a storage management server. NetWorker for Windows NT, Network Edition can reliably protect data across more platforms than any other solution in the market today at a performance standard not possible with backup utilities currently available for the Windows NT platform.

Network Edition also includes client software for protection of Windows NT, as well as MS-DOS, Windows and Windows for Workgroups. Support for Microsoft Windows 95 will be available the first quarter of 1996.

Legato also announced today an entry-level version of the product that offers a feature-rich alternative to the backup utility which ships as part of Windows NT Server. Legato Data Backup Utility (LDBU) for Windows NT offers additional backup features and performance, and provides a migration path to Legato's award-winning NetWorker product line.

Legato Data Backup Utility will be made available to customers through participating business partners and selected computer or storage hardware vendors. Customers can also request LDBU directly through Legato's World Wide Web site (http://www.legato.com) for a nominal handling and shipping fee.

In December 1994, Legato announced the availability of its ClientPak, for Windows NT that provides protection for data resident on Windows NT Workstation and servers networked to any NetWorker storage management server. The native Windows NT storage management server product offers Legato customers an additional option for Windows NT environments.

NetWorker Features for Windows NT

BackOffice Integration:

NetWorker for Windows NT provides the best "out of the box" support for the following Microsoft Back Office applications: Microsoft SQL Server client-server database manager system (off-line backup), Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Mail Server (including event notification via MAPI), Systems Management Server (NetWorker event notification integrated with Systems Management Server), and Microsoft SNA Server (transparent access to mainframe storage).