(COMTEX) B: Leading SAN Vendors Promote Legato Systems' Open Celestra
B: Leading SAN Vendors Promote Legato Systems' Open Celestra Architecture for
SANs; Industry Unites Behind Open, Integrated Approach to Deliver SAN
Serverless Backup
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug 26, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- LegatoSystems, Inc.
(Nasdaq:LGTO), a leader in enterprise storage management software,
today announced the formation of the Celestra Consortium. The
Consortium promotes an open, integrated architecture for effective data
movement and management of Storage Area Network (SAN) environments.
Charter Consortium members include leading SAN vendors: 3PARdata, ADIC,
Amdahl, Ancor, ATL, ATTO, Auspex, Brocade, Bull, Chaparral, CommVault
Systems, Compaq, Computer Associates, ConvergeNet, DG/Clariion, EMC,
Gadzoox, INLINE Corp., JNI, McDATA, MTI, NEC, Network Appliance,
Novell, Overland Data, Pathlight, Siemens, SGI, Spectra Logic,
SmartSAN, Troika, Vixel and Xiotech.
The Celestra Consortium provides a forum whereby Celestra's open data
movement technology adoption is facilitated and integration efficiency
is enhanced. IT customers benefit from the inherent product development
efficiencies that result in more robust, feature-rich products brought
to market faster.
Several of the Consortium members will implement the SCSI Extended Copy
specification, which is based on the SCSI specification for third-party
copy developed by the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA).
"Openness and interoperability between vendors are vital in order to
provide meaningful, cost-effective solutions to the fast growing IT
community and to exploit the rich market potential of SANs, which is
estimated at $13 billion by 2002," said Kent Smith, Legato System's
executive vice president, Strategic Alliances.
Through the Consortium, Legato introduced its Celestra technology, an
open and distributed architecture that optimizes data movement
efficiency in SAN environments.
Paul Mason, vice president of Infrastructure Software Research for
International Data Corporation (IDC), commented, "This partnering by
storage industry leaders makes possible open solutions for customers to
address their backup window constraints and to provide a solution to
their availability problems. Businesses will now be able to build
efficient SAN architectures that allow fast and easy data movement."
With its strong commitment to open standards and its co-authorship of
both the Extended Copy specification and the Network Data Management
Protocol (NDMP), Legato is uniquely positioned to open the Celestra
Consortium co-operative vendor forum. Through this Consortium, tools
and support are offered to vendors to enable implementation of the SCSI
Extended Copy specification. This includes a test tool kit and a joint
certification and marketing support program, enabling consortium
members to provide robust, interoperable solutions to market quickly
and efficiently.
The Celestra Consortium forum was initiated by Legato but is a
co-operative venture between leading SAN vendors. Members have a high
degree of commitment and provide input and funding to support
consortium integration efforts. The consortium was kicked off at an
introductory meeting in Monterey, Calif. on June 15 and 16, 1999.
The next Celestra Consortium meeting is targeted for December, 1999.
Vendors interested in learning more about the Celestra Consortium and
the levels at which they can participate should contact Deborah Balon
at Legato Systems, dbalon@legato.com.
Publicly-traded companies in the Celestra Consortium include: ADIC
(Nasdaq:ADIC), ANCOR (Nasdaq:ANCR), ATL (NYSE:DSS), AUSPEX
(Nasdaq:ASPX), BROCADE (Nasdaq:BRCD), GADZOOX (Nasdaq:ZOOX), MTI
(Nasdaq:MTIC), NEC (Nasdaq:NIPNY), NETWORK APPLIANCE (Nasdaq:NTAP),
NOVELL (Nasdaq:NOVL), OVERLAND DATA (Nasdaq:OVRL), SGI (NYSE:SGI).
(COMTEX) B: Leading SAN Vendors Promote Legato Systems' Open Celestra
B: Leading SAN Vendors Promote Legato Systems' Open Celestra Architecture for
SANs; Industry Unites Behind Open, Integrated Approach to Deliver SAN
Serverless Backup
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug 26, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- LegatoSystems, Inc.
(Nasdaq:LGTO), a leader in enterprise storage management software,
today announced the formation of the Celestra Consortium. The
Consortium promotes an open, integrated architecture for effective data
movement and management of Storage Area Network (SAN) environments.
Charter Consortium members include leading SAN vendors: 3PARdata, ADIC,
Amdahl, Ancor, ATL, ATTO, Auspex, Brocade, Bull, Chaparral, CommVault
Systems, Compaq, Computer Associates, ConvergeNet, DG/Clariion, EMC,
Gadzoox, INLINE Corp., JNI, McDATA, MTI, NEC, Network Appliance,
Novell, Overland Data, Pathlight, Siemens, SGI, Spectra Logic,
SmartSAN, Troika, Vixel and Xiotech.
The Celestra Consortium provides a forum whereby Celestra's open data
movement technology adoption is facilitated and integration efficiency
is enhanced. IT customers benefit from the inherent product development
efficiencies that result in more robust, feature-rich products brought
to market faster.
Several of the Consortium members will implement the SCSI Extended Copy
specification, which is based on the SCSI specification for third-party
copy developed by the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA).
"Openness and interoperability between vendors are vital in order to
provide meaningful, cost-effective solutions to the fast growing IT
community and to exploit the rich market potential of SANs, which is
estimated at $13 billion by 2002," said Kent Smith, Legato System's
executive vice president, Strategic Alliances.
Through the Consortium, Legato introduced its Celestra technology, an
open and distributed architecture that optimizes data movement
efficiency in SAN environments.
Paul Mason, vice president of Infrastructure Software Research for
International Data Corporation (IDC), commented, "This partnering by
storage industry leaders makes possible open solutions for customers to
address their backup window constraints and to provide a solution to
their availability problems. Businesses will now be able to build
efficient SAN architectures that allow fast and easy data movement."
With its strong commitment to open standards and its co-authorship of
both the Extended Copy specification and the Network Data Management
Protocol (NDMP), Legato is uniquely positioned to open the Celestra
Consortium co-operative vendor forum. Through this Consortium, tools
and support are offered to vendors to enable implementation of the SCSI
Extended Copy specification. This includes a test tool kit and a joint
certification and marketing support program, enabling consortium
members to provide robust, interoperable solutions to market quickly
and efficiently.
The Celestra Consortium forum was initiated by Legato but is a
co-operative venture between leading SAN vendors. Members have a high
degree of commitment and provide input and funding to support
consortium integration efforts. The consortium was kicked off at an
introductory meeting in Monterey, Calif. on June 15 and 16, 1999.
The next Celestra Consortium meeting is targeted for December, 1999.
Vendors interested in learning more about the Celestra Consortium and
the levels at which they can participate should contact Deborah Balon
at Legato Systems, dbalon@legato.com.
Publicly-traded companies in the Celestra Consortium include: ADIC
(Nasdaq:ADIC), ANCOR (Nasdaq:ANCR), ATL (NYSE:DSS), AUSPEX
(Nasdaq:ASPX), BROCADE (Nasdaq:BRCD), GADZOOX (Nasdaq:ZOOX), MTI
(Nasdaq:MTIC), NEC (Nasdaq:NIPNY), NETWORK APPLIANCE (Nasdaq:NTAP),
NOVELL (Nasdaq:NOVL), OVERLAND DATA (Nasdaq:OVRL), SGI (NYSE:SGI).
About Legato Systems
Legato Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LGTO), is a worldwide leader in
enterprise storage management software. Helping companies leverage
their business-critical, corporate data assets, Legato's products
enable information continuance, a seamless approach to the management,
movement and protection of data throughout an enterprise. Since the
company was founded in 1989, Legato's storage management software
products have become a recognized industry standard with the largest
installed base representing over 65,000 customers, protecting more than
five million systems. In addition to the Celestra Consortium, Legato
also sponsors the SANReady and SmartMedia programs for partners.
Legato's products are available through a network of Legato-licensed
VARs, resellers and OEM partners. Legato's corporate headquarters is
located at 3210 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94304. Telephone:
650/812-6000. Legato's home page on the World Wide Web is
legato.com.
Note to Editors: Legato, Legato Systems, Legato NetWorker, SmartMedia
and ClientPak are registered trademarks, and NetWorker Archive,
NetWorker HSM, Celestra, FullTime, Power Edition and GEMS are
trademarks of Legato Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Any other product, trademark, company, or service names mentioned
herein are the property of their respective owners.
Celestra Consortium Partners:
ADIC
"The future of high bandwidth storage is in SANs," commented Jonathan
Otis, ADIC vice president of product management, "and in integrating
products like high performance serverless data transfer into SAN
solutions that retain all of the flexibility inherent in open systems.
By founding this consortium to bring together a wide spectrum of the
storage industry, Legato is providing an important service. The
Celestra Consortium will help ADIC integrate its FibreReady(TM) tape
libraries and SAN networking products into storage solutions that give
our customers better performance, lower administration overhead, and
better data security."
Ancor
"Ancor Communications shares Legato's vision for open, interoperable
SANs," said Carla Kennedy, Ancor's vice president of marketing.
"Ancor's commitment to this program means Celestra end users can take
advantage of the highly scalable performance of our switched SAN
fabrics, to grow very large SANs that are also easy to backup and
manage."
ATL
"ATL has joined the Consortium because of the many benefits that
Celestra promises our customers including continuous, high-performance,
24x7 accessibility of enterprise applications with fail-safe data
protection that eliminates the need for backup windows," said Frank
Berry, Vice President of Marketing for ATL Products. "The Celestra
Consortium is an outstanding next stepin providing developers, like
ATL, with the tools and support for creating more robust LAN-free,
serverless backup solutions."
Auspex
"Serverless, LAN-free backup is THE overriding application driving
customers to implement Network Attached Storage and Storage Area
Networks. The ability to perform rapid backup and recovery of data on
an enterprise level, across heterogeneous platforms is now an essential
component of IT departments in delivering non-stop data access to their
clients," said Bruce Moore, Auspex President and Chief Executive
Officer. "Celestra's open data movement technology, coupled with
Auspex' expertise in delivering intelligence to the network, will allow
customers to achieve these backup goals in an open, secure and robust
manner."
BROCADE
"BROCADE is pleased to support the Legato Celestra initiative. As the
leading provider of Fibre Channel fabric switches, BROCADE is committed
to enabling open, standards-based storage area networks. We welcome
Legato's leadership in driving this cooperative venture among SAN
vendors," said Peter Tarrant, BROCADE vice president of marketing and
business development.
Bull
"Legato's Celestra Consortium initiative is consistent with Bull's
efforts to provide an open, value-added platform for building
enterprise-level Storage Area Networks," said Scott Hansbury, VP of
worldwide marketing for Bull's Storage Server business unit. "We are
pleased with our relationship with Legato, which supports our product
marketing strategy of leveraging best-of-breed solutions in order to
provide maximum value to our customers."
Chaparral
"The Celestra architecture addresses the need for serverless data
movement and delivers a high-end data protection solution for the SAN
environment," said Michael Gluck, President and COO of Chaparral
Network Storage, Inc. "The high-performance throughput of our FS1310
Intelligent Storage Router, combined with Celestra's open design,
provides one of the best solutions for the SAN marketplace."
Compaq
"Compaq is committed to providing serverless backup for its customers
as part of its Enterprise Network Storage Architecture (ENSA)
strategy," said Darren Thomas, Vice President of MultiVendor Storage at
Compaq. "We are actively working with Legato, the Celestra Consortium
partners, and SNIA to create one open standard for serverless backup."
ConvergeNet
"Membership in the Celestra Consortium supports our strategy of
addressing storage management problems through the incorporation of
intelligence in the SAN," said Dick Watts, President and CEO of
ConvergeNet. "The Celestra-based serverless backup solution that
ConvergeNet and Legato will jointly deliver is just one of many storage
management solutions that will benefit from more intelligence in the
SAN.
Gadzoox
"Gadzoox is delighted to join forces with Legato on the development
and deployment of the open Celestra architecture. As one of the first
companies to develop and demonstrate a SAN switch with embedded
Celestra data movement technology, Gadzoox is committed to continuing
the advancement of this innovative approach to SAN-based data
management," said Dave Tang, Gadzoox Networks vice president of
marketing. "Through the efforts of the Celestra Consortium, users will
be able to harness the power of distributed, intelligent SAN agents to
more efficiently manage their corporate data within an open standards
environment."
INLINE
"We support initiatives such as Legato's Celestra Consortium which
promotes open, interoperable solutions for improved SAN management,"
said Patricia Thorpe, director of corporate marketing at INLINE
Corporation. "By teaming with other storage industry leaders, we are
able to offer our customers high performing, cost-effective SAN
solutions."
JNI
"Legato's Celestra Consortium provides a great forum for JNI to
collaborate with other leading Fibre Channel vendors to not only
champion but more importantly, ensure the interoperability benefits of
the technology to our customers," said Tracy Crowe, director of
Marketing at JNI.
McDATA
"McDATA is committed to working with industry leaders to bring
powerful SAN solutions to our customers," stated Jeff Vogel, vice
president of McDATA marketing and system integration services. "As part
of the Celestra Consortium, McDATA can assure that an open, integrated
architecture is defined that meets the requirements of the data center.
This is a contributing factor in why customers believe that McDATA
Director products offer the backbone infrastructure solution for the
enterprise -- a solution in which popular applications such as Celestra
are guaranteed to operate."
Overland Data
"The combination of Overland hardware and Legato software excellence
can now deliver a standards-based solution that effectively eliminates
the issue of the backup window," said Steve Richardson, Vice President
of Marketing at Overland Data. "Earlier this year, Overland made a
commitment to its customers to accelerate the development of a new
generation of SAN data protection and management tools, and with
partners such as Legato we are delivering on that promise."
Pathlight
Pathlight Technology Senior Vice President Said Rahmani said,
"Pathlight products are designed from the ground up to provide an open
platform for delivering and managing third-party SAN applications such
as Legato's backup solutions. Standards-based data movement ensures
customers have greater flexibility and reliability when designing
multi-vendor SAN environments."
Siemens
"By collaborating with other Celestra Consortium members, we are able
to more efficiently provide powerful and cost-effective SAN solutions
to our customers," said Dr. Helmut Beck, Vice President Storage at
Siemens Computer Systems. "The Celestra Consortium fits perfectly into
our business model. Which means to partner with technology and market
leading companies, to provide our customers with first class solutions
based on 'best of breed' products."
Spectra Logic
"As a part of Celestra Consortium, Spectra Logic is pleased to be
able to work together with Legato and other members to develop SAN
solutions which will operate together and can be implemented today,"
said Hossein Zia-Shakeri, Director of Advanced Engineering at Spectra
Logic. "Customer demand has been growing for LAN-free and Serverless
solutions in our full line of AIT-based tape libraries and the
commitment we have seen from Consortium members has been key to making
this a reality."
Vixel
"Vixel strongly supports efforts such as Legato's Celestra Consortium
to further interoperability and open standards among SAN solutions,"
said Arun Taneja, vice president, marketing, Vixel Corporation. "By
promoting an open, integrated architecture, Vixel and Legato are
accelerating the deployment of best-of-class SAN solutions to our
mutual customers.
3PARdata
"3PARdata is excited to join the Legato Celestra Consortium and
intends to leverage Celestra technology in future product introductions
to deliver optimal SAN solutions," said Robert Rogers, 3PARdata CEO.
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