Legato NetWorker to Support Storage Network Technology; Legato to Extend Storage Management to Support Fibre Channel and Storage Area Network Solutions
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 1997--Legato Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: LGTO), a leader in the enterprise storage management software market, today announced that it is extending its NetWorker product line to support Fibre Channel I/O, Network Attached Storage (NAS), and Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies. NetWorker intends to be the first storage management product to support these technologies in the Windows NT and UNIX environments. In a related announcement on November 12, 1997, Legato announced founding membership in the newly formed Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). This is an organization dedicated to promoting market awareness and industry standards in networked storage.
Legato intends to support Fibre Channel storage products from leading vendors, including Compaq's newly announced line of Fibre Channel storage products. Legato's October 1997 device support supplement released earlier this week added support for the COMPAQ DLT Library Model 3570 and the ATL P1000 on NetWorker for Windows NT and UNIX. Legato will support the Fibre Channel versions of these models, as well as Fibre Channel storage devices from ADIC, EMASS, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Overland Data, SUN and others in upcoming releases of it quarterly device support supplement program.
"As the amount of information explodes, customers are demanding an Enterprise Storage Management Architecture that will enhance and simplify network storage management," said Nora Denzel, senior vice president of Legato Systems, Inc. "Legato recognizes the value of Fibre Attached storage devices and will support these devices, taking advantage of their flexibility and reliability."
Fibre Channel will be heavily used in SAN and NAS environments to deliver scalable high-performance storage solutions for enterprise applications. Legato NetWorker's advanced highly- parallel architecture with concurrent I/O and data multiplexing, allows it to scale backup performance to over 1.5 terabytes per hour, ideal for Fibre Channel and the needs of SAN and NAS systems. Legato's Global Enterprise Management of Storage (GEMS) product complements these systems with policy-based administration, resource management, and performance and availability management features a customer needs to manage multiple NAS and SAN environments.
For additional information on all Legato Systems' enterprise storage management software products, contact Legato sales via phone at (650) 812-6000, or via e-mail at sales@legato.com. Information on the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) can be accessed at: sresearch.com .
About Legato Systems
Legato Systems, Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, California, develops, markets and supports enterprise storage management software products for heterogeneous client/server computing environments. Legato is a leader in the enterprise storage management and database backup software market because of the heterogeneity, scalability, performance and manageability of its software products. The Company's flagship software product, NetWorker, supports many storage management server platforms and accommodates the largest array of clients, servers and storage devices in the industry. NetWorker BusinesSuite offers fast, on-line backup for leading relational database management systems (RDBMS) and applications. Legato NetWorker is licensed, resold, or endorsed by major vendors, including: Amdahl, Banyan, BMC Software, Compaq/Tandem, Computer Associates, Data General, Digital Equipment, Fujitsu/ICL, Groupe Bull, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM/Tivoli, Informix, Microsoft, MTI, Nihon-Unisys, Novell, Oracle, SAP, Siemens Nixdorf, Silicon Graphics, Sony, and Sun Microsystems. Legato's long-term strategy is to create an integrated set of solutions centered on enterprise storage management that enhance and simplify network computing as a whole. Legato's home page address on the World Wide Web is legato.com .
Note to Editors: Legato NetWorker is a registered trademark, and NetWorker Archive, NetWorker HSM, ClientPak, SmartClient, SmartMedia, StorSuite, Legato Data Backup Utility, 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. |
