Legato and LSI Logic Storage Systems Demonstrate Ability To Rapidly Protect Massive Amounts Of Data

Business Wire, Feb 26, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SNIA Backup and Restore Workshop

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., and MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2002

Storage industry leaders will backup more than 1 terabyte of data

in one hour during demonstration at SNIA Backup and Restore Workshop

At the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Backup and Restore Workshop on February 26 and 27, Legato Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: LGTO), a worldwide leader in enterprise storage management software, and LSI Logic Storage Systems, a leading supplier of innovative storage solutions for the open enterprise, will demonstrate how businesses can rapidly protect massive, growing amounts of data by optimizing their SAN infrastructure and consolidating storage.

More than 1 terabyte of data will be backed up in less than one hour using a combination of Legato NetWorker(R) 6 in a Fibre Channel SAN, LSI Logic MetaStor E4600, Sun E450 with LSI449290 host adapters, Brocade Silkworm 3800 switch, and Spectralogic 64000 Library AIT-3 tape drives.

"Businesses continue to generate data volumes at extraordinarily high growth rates while facing increasing application service level requirements. Meanwhile, there is less time to complete backup operations without impacting user productivity," said Flavio Santoni, vice president of sales and marketing, LSI Logic Storage Systems. "As a result, businesses are under relentless pressure to protect growing amounts of business-critical data faster. We are pleased to demonstrate with Legato, at SNIA's Backup and Restore Workshop, solutions that will help users backup massive amounts of information at extraordinary speed."

"Time to backup" is the number one backup and restore issue cited by enterprise companies, according to SNIA.

"In large data center environments, vast amounts of information must be protected quickly to achieve application service level demands ," said Kevin Walter, vice president, information protection, Legato Systems. "Using standards-based hardware and software components, we will demonstrate how customers can implement flexible, scalable SAN solutions today that fully leverage fibre channel bandwidth and connectivity to meet ever expanding protection needs and maximize their SAN investments."

About Legato

Legato Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LGTO) delivers worldwide enterprise class software solutions and services that keep the world's business-critical information and applications available. With a direct sales force and through strategic partnerships and alliances, Legato delivers the advantage of business continuance through enterprise automation with information protection, application availability and storage management solutions. The company's corporate headquarters are located at 2350 West El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040 (650) 210-7000, fax: (650) 210-7032, Web site: www.legato.com

Legato and the Legato logo are registered trademarks, and Legato NetWorker, Celestra, GEMS, SmartMedia, Co-StandbyServer, RepliStor, SnapShotServer, QuikStartz, SAN Academy, and AlphaStor are trademarks or registered trademarks of Legato Systems, Inc. This is a non-exhaustive list of Legato trademarks, and other trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.

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About LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc.

LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of LSI Logic Corporation, builds high performance, highly scalable storage systems and sophisticated, multi-vendor storage management applications for resource optimization and consolidation in the open enterprise. For more information, please call 1-888-638-2786 or 1-408-433-8686 or visit www.lsilogicstorage.com.

About LSI Logic Corporation

LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE:LSI) is a leading designer and manufacturer of communications, consumer and storage semiconductors for applications that access, interconnect and store data, voice and video. In addition, the company supplies storage network solutions for the enterprise. LSI Logic is headquartered at 1551 McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas, CA 95035, 866-574-5741 (within U.S.), 719-533-7679 (outside U.S.), http://www.lsilogic.com.

Editor's Notes:

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