Legato Systems and Data General Expand Their Worldwide OEM Agreement; Data General to Bundle and Resell Legato's Entire Line of Legato NetWorker for Windows NT Solutions

Business Wire, August 24, 1998

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 24e and resell the Legato NetWorker for Windows NT product line with their key storage hardware.

Data Genmarketplace," said Jim Geronaitis, manager of storage marketing, AViiON Server Division of Data General. "The combination of Legato NetWorker and Quantum tape drives integrated with our AViiON enterprise servers, provides businesses with an outstanding solution for protecting and recovering their mission-critical data."

Since 1992, Data General has been marketing Legato NetWorker under the brand name AViiON NetWorker for AViiON. All DG/UX systems shipped by Data General are "Legato NetWorker-ready," and fully interoperate with all other versions of Legato NetWorker. Data General offers this storage management solution through their direct sales force and international distributors.

"The extension of Legato's OEM agreement with Data General confirms our commitment to Data General's customers, as well as to the expanding Windows NT market," said Kent Smith, chief operating officer of Legato Systems, Inc.

Legato NetWorker for Windows NT is a leading storage management solution for the protection of Windows NT-based file/print, database, and application servers, and their networked clients. Legato NetWorker sets the standard for business-critical data protection by providing storage management, including backup, recovery, archive, and automated disaster recovery for networks of all sizes. Legato NetWorker provides a high-level of integration with Microsoft BackOffice, and includes optional add-on Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite modules for online backup/restore of Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Oracle, Informix, and SAP R/3 on Oracle.

Data General is one of 24 OEM relationships Legato has announced since the founding of the Company in 1988. OEMs license source code from Legato and port the software to the OEM's respective operating system and hardware platform. The resultant Legato NetWorker-based product is marketed, sold, and supported by the OEM as their own storage management software product.

Pricing and Availability

Data General's product family of storage management solutions is currently available. For pricing, please contact Data General at 1-800-DataGen. For additional information on all of Legato Systems' enterprise storage management software products, please contact Legato sales via phone at (650) 812-6114, or via e-mail at sales@legato.com.

About Data General

Data General Corporation (NYSE:DGN), based in Westboro, Massachusetts, is a major supplier of storage and enterprise computer solutions for information systems users worldwide. The company's products include CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage systems, high-end NT and UNIX based AViiON servers, and related software and services. Data General reported revenues of $1.5 billion during fiscal 1997. Additional information on the company, its products and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com.

About Legato Systems

Legato Systems, Inc. develops, markets, and supports an integrated set of enterprise storage management software products for heterogeneous client/server computing environments. Large customers around the world select the Compaare has become the recognized de-facto standardftware as their preferred storage management sotscape, Network Appliance, Nihon-Unisys, Oracle, Siemens Nixdorf, Silicon Graphics, Sony and Sun Microsystems. The company's NetWorker, BusinesSuite, and GEMS products arng Computer Associates, IBM/Tivoli, Microsoft Cademarks, and NetWorker Archive, NetWorker HSM, egistered trademarks of Data General Corporation. All other product, trademark, company, or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

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