Legato Systems and Toshiba Corporation Enter Into Strategic OEM Relationship

Business Wire, March 30, 1999

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 1999--Legato Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:LGTO), a leader in the enterprise storage management software market, and Toshiba Corporation (Headquarters: Kawasaki, Kanagawa Pref.; President: Taizo Nishimuro), today announced a strategic OEM relationship under which Toshiba Corporation will sell Legato's enterprise class storage management products for both the Windows NT and UNIX market.

As a result of this partnership, Toshiba will provide more solid backup business with the enterprise market. Toshiba Corporation will sell Legato NetWorker with its MAGNIA series Global Network servers and AS/UX series compatible storage management solutions manufactured under and OEM agreement with Sun Microsystems.

Toshiba expressed its pleasure with the formation of this alliance with Legato Systems. The company expects this agreement to give it excellent positioning in the market, where Toshiba is committed to developing innovative technologies. It also plans to integrate Legato NetWorker into its clustering software, "DNCWARE".

Legato NetWorker/J is a Japanese language product addressing the storage management needs of today's heterogeneous, ever-changing enterprise. Legato NetWorker/J runs on Microsoft Windows NT and Solaris delivering the manageability, availability, performance, and scalability necessary to protect multi-platform environments with one solution.

"We are pleased to be working with Toshiba in the Japanese market," said Paul J.J. Payack, vice president of marketing at Legato Systems, Inc. "This agreement confirms our commitment to provide a global standard for protecting business-critical data and applications through the most complete storage management solution. We are extremely pleased with the success and the acceptance of our Legato NetWorker/J product in the Japanese market."

Legato is uniquely positioned as the only provider of a fully integrated storage management solution based upon a consistent, scalable, and manageable architecture. The company's software is designed to ensure distributed data and applications remain available to users by minimizing operational downtime -- both planned and unplanned. The company's software has become the recognized de facto storage management standard with the largest installed based of more than 40,000 customers, protecting more than 4,000,000 systems.

About Toshiba

Toshiba Corporation is a leader in information and communications systems, electronic components, consumer products, and power systems. The company's integration of these wide-ranging capabilities assures its position as an innovator in multimedia components, products and systems. Toshiba has 188,000 employees worldwide, and annual sales of over US$ 40 billion. Home page: http://www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm

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, Novell, and SAP. 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. All other product, trademark, company, or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.