Legato Systems and ATL Products Team to Demonstrate Storage Area Network-Based Disaster Recovery; Legato Systems Demonstrates Support of SAN-Based Applications

Business Wire, Nov 16, 1998

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 1998--Legato Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: LGTO), a leader in the enterprise storage management software market, and ATL Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATLPA), a leading supplier of automated DLTtape(tm) libraries for networked computers, today announced the demonstration of enhanced disaster recovery through Storage Area Network (SAN)-based remote vaulting at COMDEX Fall.

The demonstration includes a combination of the Legato NetWorker cloning feature and Fibre Channel attached to an ATL P1000, enabling remote vaulting over Fibre Channel distances. This automates creation of duplicate tapes for fast-access to on-site archives, and off-site disaster recovery vaults.

"Customers deploying SANs to improve disaster resiliency and overall storage management capabilities will benefit from this solution," said Nora M. Denzel, senior vice president at Legato Systems, Inc. "The enhanced disaster recovery capabilities offered through SAN-based remote vaulting will eliminate the window of vulnerability before disaster recovery tapes are sent off-site."

Chet Baffa, vice president of Marketing and Sales at ATL added, "The modular architecture of NetWorker and the P1000 library will provide customers the ability to deploy SCSI-based automated backup systems today with a cost effective upgrade path. Customers can add-on Fibre Channel-based disaster recovery capabilities by simply adding NetWorker software and by adding Fibre Channel PCI cards into the P1000 expansion slots."

ATL is a participant in the recently launched Legato SAN Ready Certification Program, which addresses key business requirements of companies and organizations that are planning to optimize storage performance and minimize storage administration through dedicated SANs based on Fibre Channel.

"Legato's SAN Ready Certification Program is an important platform from which ATL will launch its entry into the SAN market," said Baffa. "The P1000, with embedded Fibre Channel interface and bridging will provide businesses with a SAN backup appliance that is easy to buy, install and operate."

For more information about ATL Products, please visit the ATL Web site at atlpsales@atlp.com. For additional information on all of Legato Systems' enterprise storage management software products, please contact Legato sales via phone at (650) 812-6000, or via email at sales@legato.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 Company's solution because of its reliability, platform independence, and unique ability to seamlessly integrate with existing and future computing environments. Legato's storage management software has become the recognized de facto standard with the largest installed base, representing over 37,000 customers, protecting more than 4,000,000 systems. Twenty-four of the world's largest system and applications vendors have chosen Legato's software as their preferred storage management solution for their customers, including Banyan, Compaq/Digital, Compaq/Tandem, Data General, Fujitsu/Amdahl, Fujitsu/ICL, Groupe Bull, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Informix, NEC, Netscape, Network Appliance, Nihon-Unisys, Oracle, Siemens Nixdorf, Silicon Graphics, Sony and Sun Microsystems. The Company's NetWorker, BusinesSuite, SmartMedia, and GEMS products are also licensed, resold, or endorsed by other major vendors, including BMC Software; Computer Associates; Tivoli, an IBM company; Microsoft Corporation; MTI Technology; Novell; and SAP. Legato's home page address on the World Wide Web is http://www.legato.com.

Note to Editors: Legato NetWorker and Legato SmartMedia are registered trademarks, and NetWorker Archive, NetWorker HSM, ClientPak, SmartClient, StorSuite, BusinesSuite, Power Edition, Legato GEMS, and OpenTape are trademarks of Legato Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other product, trademark, company, or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.