PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2000--
NetWorker 5.6 and Celestra Power 1.1.2 Eliminate Need for Backup
Window in Traditional Direct-Attached Storage and SAN Environments
Legato(R) Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: LGTO.O), the leader in enterprise
software solutions for achieving information continuance, announced
the release of Legato NetWorker(R) 5.6 and Celestra(tm) Power 1.1.2.
This combined solution extends Legato's leadership in live,
serverless, LAN-free backup for direct SCSI or fibre-attached storage
environments and Storage Area Networks (SANs).
NetWorker 5.6 has an added Network Data Management Protocol
(NDMP) component to interface with Legato's unparalleled Celestra
technology, plus the full performance, functionality and support of
Legato's market-leading NetWorker product. When the technologies are
combined, data protection becomes transparent to end-users as the
enterprise environment and server performance are free from the impact
of backup and restore operations. Organizations now can achieve 24x7
high-performance application availability and fail-safe protection of
their storage assets without affecting users or the performance of the
network. This solution eliminates the need for a backup window and
expands Legato's leadership in the serverless backup arena.
"Protecting vast, ever-increasing amounts of storage and meeting
rising service level requirements are difficult challenges for today's
global, e-commerce business environment," said Henrik Holm, CEO of
Proact IT. "This extremely powerful solution allows our customers to
regain hundreds if not thousands of hours in productivity that are
generally lost during backup operations."
Celestra Power 1.1.2 is the first solution that offloads valuable
LAN, CPU and server I/O resources during backup and restore
operations. Data is moved at a block level directly from disk to tape
through the publicly available third-party copy specification at
ultra-high speeds. Using advanced snapshot technology, backups are
completed live with no user lockout or system interruptions. Data can
be fully protected (and restored) in conventional direct SCSI- or
Fibre-attached storage environments or SANs, at any time and as often
as needed, without impacting application or messaging network
performance.
"With NetWorker and Celestra Power, our customers can
significantly reduce the cost of downtime and data loss to their
business," said George Crump, vice president of sales and marketing
for Vangard Technology. "And because an IT organization no longer
needs to choose between information access and information protection,
it will virtually change the way the companies do business."
"Customers are demanding this kind of functionality to maximize
performance and productivity," said Nora Denzel, senior vice
president, Legato Systems. "Now Legato customers worldwide can combine
the power of Celestra with the comprehensive, heterogeneous storage
management performance of Legato NetWorker to achieve information
continuance in their enterprise."
This announcement adds to the leadership of Celestra as a
standard for data movement in storage area networking environments.
Additionally, it extends the power of the more than 50 members of the
Celestra Consortium by adding products that can be integrated into
complete SAN solutions that benefit customers today.
Availability
Legato NetWorker 5.6 and Celestra Power 1.1.2 are available today
as a bundled solution for UNIX, non-database storage environments,
supporting DLT 7000, 9840, and 3590 tape drives. Celestra support for
Oracle and Celestra-enabled SAN device or storage units embedded with
the Extended Copy protocol (from members of the Celestra Consortium
vendor community) will be released in Q2 of 2000. Additional
application, platform and tape drive support information can be found
at www.legato.com.
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