Legato Systems to Integrate Stac Disaster Recovery Technology; NetWorker/Replica Integration Provides Distributed Disaster Recovery for Windows NT and NetWare Systems

Business Wire, May 6, 1997

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 1997--Legato Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:LGTO), a leader in the enterprise storage management software market, and Stac, Inc. (NASDAQ:STAC), a leader in the disaster recovery software market, today announced that they are entering into a joint technology and marketing agreement. The terms of the agreement call for the two companies to integrate Stac's award-winning Replica 3 disaster recovery solution with LeLegato's Global Enterprise Management of S torage (GEMS). The

integration of Replica with GEMS and NetWorker gives enterprise customers access to a leading disaster recovery and systems management solution for Windows NT and NetWare as part of a complete suite of data and storage management applications.

"Disaster recovery plays a critical role in protecting our customers' distributed business-critical applications," said Nora Denzel, senior vice president of Legato Systems, Inc. "Our partnership with Stac, and the integration of Replica with NetWorker and Legato's GEMS, shows our continued commitment to provide our customers with industry leading data, storage, and systems management solutions for their heterogeneous networks."

"Combining Stac's industry-leading disaster recovery technology in Replica with Legato's NetWorker enterprise storage management solution is a true win-win solution for Legato customers, because it gives them the best of both products," said John Ticer, president and COO of Stac, Inc. "Enterprise customers will immediately recognize the benefits of Replica's fast and easy backup solution in reducing daily business interruptions, and the total cost of ownership in backup and disaster recovery products."

Legato intends to continue to enhance NetWorker for Windows NT to remain tightly integrated with the Microsoft Windows NT operating system enhancements. Working with Stac, Legato intends to provide versions of Replica that will support future Windows NT enhancements, including NT Changer Media Services (NTMS), NT Directory Services, and NT Distributed File System (Dfs).

"This is potentially great news for Legato's customers," said Paul Mason, director of IDC's enterprise system management software service. "When this work is completed, managers should be able to assure the rapid recovery of their NetWare and Windows NT servers from system disasters using Stac's unique object replication technology, while having all the control and flexibility of Legato's NetWorker under GEMS."

Product Availability

Legato extensions to support Replica will be available by the fourth quarter of 1997.

About Stac, Inc.

Founded in 1983, Stac (NASDAQ:STAC) is a leading supplier of storage management and remote access solutions that feature disaster recovery and security capabilities important to Internet-connected enterprises and individuals. Stac's products are sold worldwide through a variety of channels. Information about Stac's award-winning products and services can be accessed at http://www.stac.com, 1-800-279-7822 in the U.S. and Canada, 44 (0) 1344-302900 in Europe, or 1 (619) 794-3741 in other countries.

About Legato Systems

Legato Systems, Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, California, develops, markets and supports enterprise storage management software products for heterogeneous client/server computing environments. Legato is a technology leader in the enterprise storage management and database backup software market because of the heterogeneity, scaleability, performance and ease of use of its software products. The Company's flagship software product, NetWorker, supports many storage management server platforms and can accommodate a variety of clients, servers and storage devices. NetWorker BusinesSuite offers fast, on-line backup for leading relational database management systems (RDBMS) and applications. Legato's long-term strategy is to create an integrated set of solutions centered on enterprise storage management that enhance and simplify computing as a whole.

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