Siemens Extends Partnership With Legato Systems to Improve Management of Removable Media and Devices in Embrace Legato SmartMedia

Business Wire, Jan 11, 1999

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Siemens plans to offer additional products based on Legato SmartMedia through both direct and indirect sales organizations. More information about offerings of the Computer Systems Division of Siemens, and about NetWorker from Siemens, can be found at www.siemens.com/computers and at www.siemens.com/servers/nsr/nsr_us.htm. For information on all of Legato Systems' enterprise storage management software products, please contact Legato sales via phone at 650/812-6000, or via e-mail at sales@legato.com.

About the Computer Systems Division of Siemens

Siemens' new Information and Communication Products Group rolled out its business on October 1, 1998. With sales totaling nearly DM 20 billion, a global workforce of 34,000 and manufacturing locations around the globe, Information and Communication Products offers the entire product range of IT and communications from a single source: These products range from mobile and fixed network phones to ISDN devices, PCs, notebooks, servers and mainframes all the way to retail and self-service systems. Communication cables and IT services complement the portfolio. The new Group is divided into five separate divisions. The Computer Systems Division maintains a comprehensive product portfolio to cater for the requirements of personal computing and enterprise computing. Business PCs, mobile computers, workstations and consumer PCs address the different market segments in the PC sector with tailor-made products.

In the server market, industry analysts forecast NT, Unix and mainframes as key growth sectors up to 2001 and beyond. With its innovative Primergy NT server family, the RM line of highly scalable Unix servers, and its successful BS2000/OSD mainframes, the Computer Systems Division of Siemens is strategically positioned for the markets of the future with best-in-class products.

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, 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.

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.