Legato Announces Support for the Dell PowerVault SAN Solution; Legato Teams With Dell to Develop Storage Consolidation Product for Windows NT Market

Business Wire, Feb 23, 1999

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 1999--Legato Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: LGTO), a leader in the enterprise storage management software market, today announced support for Dell Computer Corporation's (NASDAQ: DELL), PowerVault(tm) Storage Area Network (SAN) solution for the Windows NT market. This SAN solution helps Windows NT users ensure that their growing base of data is protected and available.

"Dell is making an important move in the Windows NT market," said Nora Denzel, senior vice president at Legato Systems, Inc. "The company's PowerVault SAN solution meets the needs of customers who are looking for highly available storage consolidation. As we fulfill our vision of SANs, Legato will work closely with Dell to ensure the right solutions are delivered to help customers achieve the information utility, where data is available anytime, anywhere."

Legato offers SAN solutions today for high-performance backup and restore over Fibre Channel. LAN-free backup solutions rely on Legato NetWorker, Legato NetWorker Storage Nodes, and Legato SmartMedia. The combination of Legato SAN solutions with Dell's PowerVault products that offer both primary and secondary storage on the same high-speed redundant Fibre Channel fabric provide end-users with unparalleled storage options.

"Legato was a natural fit for Dell's storage area network solution," said Kevin Reinis, director of PowerVault storage marketing for Dell's Enterprise Systems Group. "Legato is a leader in the storage industry, with a solid base of Windows NT users and a strong vision for the future of SANs. We look forward to continued work to deliver best-of-breed SAN solutions with Legato."

Legato's family of products include Legato NetWorker, a high performance network storage management application that protects the business-critical data of networked desktops, workstations, and servers, while simplifying the administration of enterprise-wide storage management; Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite, a family of add-on modules to Legato NetWorker that provide online protection of data resident on databases and large business applications; Legato GEMS, which allows administrators to centrally manage their integrated storage management solution, providing unequaled command and control functionality for enterprise-wide storage management; and Legato SmartMedia, designed to enable companies to lower their total cost of ownership by maximizing hardware utilization, and lowering overall administrative and operational costs associated with media and device management. Legato is uniquely positioned as the only provider of a fully integrated storage management solution based upon a consistent, scalable, and manageable architecture.

For additional information on all Legato Systems' enterprise storage management software products, contact Legato sales via phone at 650/812-6000, or via e-mail 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 as a strategic partner for protecting their customers' data, including Banyan, Compaq, 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; Box Hill; 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.

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.