Legato SAN Academy Now Offers Classroom Training; The Industry's Most Successful Web-based Training Program Is Touring the Country in May and June

Business Wire, May 2, 2000

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2000

Legato Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LGTO), the leader in enterprise storage management software, today announced the first classroom training offered through Legato Systems' SAN Academy(SM). During the months of May and June, Legato SAN Academy offers a day of SAN training at select cities throughout the United States.

This training series will cover, in one day, the material offered in SAN 101, SAN 110, and a new course, SAN 120. SAN 101 provides a technical foundation for understanding SANs, SAN 110 examines SAN data protection options for LAN-free and serverless backup in detail, and SAN 120 explores the fundamentals of SAN high availability solutions.

"Our web-based SAN courses have over 98% satisfaction ratings and have been viewed by over 5,000 industry users or vendors," said Nora Denzel, senior vice president, Legato Systems. "To supplement the web-based courses, and meet the needs of people who cannot attend our sessions on-line, we are taking SAN Academy on the road."

Legato SAN Academy web-based courses are free and can be "attended" at a time that works best for the participant. Many participants have expressed interest in a day of local training, for it is difficult for them to find dedicated hours in a busy workday to attend the self-paced courses. Like any course, SAN Academy courses offer the most value when they can be attended with no distractions.

"Between my supervisor responsibilities and having too many No. 1 priorities, I am hard-pressed to string 15 minutes together in my office without an interruption, a scheduled meeting, or a new brush-fire that becomes another new first priority," said Greg Bryant, Water Resources Geographic Information Systems Coordinator at Denver Water. "My attempts at running computer-based training have typically failed due to this lack of opportunity for consistent attention. Getting away from the office for a day assists me greatly in completing a training course."

SAN Academy is coming to the following eight cities across the U.S.:

5/30 Chicago, IL at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare (Rosemont) 6/1 Denver, CO at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center 6/5 Santa Clara, CA at the Marriott 6/7 Irvine, CA at the Hyatt Regency Irvine 6/9 Los Angeles, CA at the LA Airport Marriott 6/12 Falls Church, VA at the Fairview Park Marriott 6/14 Newark, NJ at the Newark Marriott 6/16 Manhattan, NY at the Marriott Marquis

Each session will offer breakfast and lunch, as well as SAN Academy mementos. Attendees will also have the opportunity to win a Palm Pilot V(TM) personal organizer and learn about SAN products from our sponsors, ADIC, Ancor, IBM, Overland Data, and QLogic.

Partner Quotes

ADIC

"The emergence of SAN technology is one of the decade's most important IT events, one that ADIC has helped advance with our FibreReady tape libraries, SAN file-sharing technology, and SAN backup solutions, with their support for Celestra-enabled serverless data transfer," commented Bill Britts, ADIC executive vice president of Sales and Marketing. "ADIC is pleased to be a partner of Legato's as it develops the next generation of SAN applications, and as it leads the effort to educate the IT community through programs like the SAN Academy."

Ancor

"Educating resellers and customers is a vital step in the expansion of the SAN market, which is why we're proud to sponsor Legato Systems' SAN Academy classroom training. Legato's training sessions give participants the fundamentals needed to build high-availability SANs that incorporate ANCOR's technically superior family of SAN box switches and Legato's leading enterprise storage management software," explained Carla Kennedy, Ancor vice president of marketing.

IBM

"SAN education is an important factor to industry-wide acceptance and deployment of SANs," said Sandy Carter, director, Partner World for Developers Netfinity, IBM. "We are pleased to participate in the Legato SAN Academy education program and help move the industry forward with this technology."

Overland

"Once again Legato is at the forefront of the technology curve. The Legato SAN Academy will provide IT managers with the information they need to design and implement the best SAN technologies on the market today. We are proud to once again be participating in an extremely informative event with other industry leaders," said Steve Richardson, vice president of marketing for Overland.

QLogic

"QLogic is an enthusiastic sponsor of the Legato SAN Academy and its mission to reach out to the IT community and increase understanding of SAN benefits," said Laura Raybin, director of corporate marketing, QLogic. "The web-based course has proven to be a tremendous success and now the launch of in-person classroom training is sure to be yet another effective way to arm participants with valuable SAN knowledge."

Attendees must register in advance at the Legato SAN Academy web site, at www.sanacademy.com. Unfortunately, space is limited, so to reserve a place, please register as early as possible. The cost to attend is $350.