Legato Systems Announces Industry-Exclusive Cluster-Aware Failover of Backup and Recovery Services for SAP R/3 Solutions On Oracle Databases

Business Wire, March 24, 1999

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1999--Legato Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: LGTO), a leader in the enterprise storage management software market, today announced the availability of Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite Module 1.3 for SAP(TM) R/3(R) running on Oracle databases. Building on Legato's strengths of high availability and scalability, the new release teams with Legato NetWorker 5.5 Power Edition to provide one of the industry's only solutions for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition (MSCS) clusters with failover of backup and recovery services for SAP R/3 data on Oracle databases. SAP customers can be confident of the new solution because SAP has tested and certified the interface for Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite Module 1.3 for SAP R/3 Release 4.0.

The new Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite Module also provides Compaq TruCluster failover of backup and recovery services for the SAP R/3 solution on Oracle database on Compaq's Digital UNIX platform. With these added capabilities, this release demonstrates Legato's continued commitment to multi-platform support and high availability technical leadership with clustering for Windows NT and Digital UNIX.

"Our membership in the SAP Complementary Software Program keeps us in close touch with the needs of SAP R/3 users," said Paul J.J. Payack, vice president of Marketing at Legato Systems, Inc. "We are excited to provide maximum data accessibility and availability for the SAP R/3 solution, exploiting Windows NT and Digital UNIX clustered environments. This demonstrates our strong commitment to facilitating business continuance for R/3 users."

Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite Module 1.3 provides a complete cluster-aware solution with failover protection by providing all three core elements of high availability: Business Continuance - the ability to avoid or minimize planned downtime; Fault Tolerance - the ability to avoid or minimize unplanned downtime; and Recovery Management - the ability to recover from a disaster.

The new module continues to provide the industry's most expansive tape device, autochanger and library support. IT managers use the Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite Module for the SAP R/3 solution to increase application availability with its fast, online backup of R/3 on the Oracle database on both Windows NT and UNIX.

The Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite product family is used in thousands of installations that require high-speed database and application-specific backup and recovery solutions. Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite features a database-centric approach that reliably and efficiently protects business critical applications, including those from leading vendors such as Microsoft, Lotus, IBM, SAP, Oracle, Informix, and Sybase.

Pricing

Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite Module 1.3 for SAP R/3 on Oracle is priced by platform. The NT Client is $3,600 base or $4,140 with update service. The UNIX Client is $12,000 base or $13,800 with update service. All prices are U.S. dollars.

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 40,000 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, StorageTek, 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, Microsoft Corporation, MTI Technology, and Novell. Legato NetWorker is also Computer Associates-ready and Tivoli-ready. 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. SAP, R/3 and all SAP product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG. All other product, trademark, company, or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.