Brocade and Legato Partner to Offer Integrated Storage Network Management
Companies Enter Technology Partnership to Ensure Compatible Fibre Channel
SAN Management, Backup and Restore
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., (BROCADE(R)) the leading supplier and pioneer of Fibre Channel Fabric switches for Storage Area Networking (SAN) and Legato Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: LGTO), a leader in the enterprise storage management software market, announced today a technology partnership between the two companies. Under the terms of the partnership agreement, BROCADE and Legato Systems will work together to integrate and ensure compatibility between their respective solutions to deliver open, integrated SAN applications and management tools. As a result of the partnership, mutual customers will reduce ramp-up time for moving critical SAN applications into production environments. In addition, system administrators will be able to manage SAN environments from within a single management console.
Announced in conjunction with the Legato vision of the Information Utility, where data is always protected, always available, and easily managed, this relationship will result in integration between Legato storage management solutions and BROCADE applications for managing BROCADE fibre channel fabric switches. In addition, both companies will share technology for development of compatible backup and restore applications for storage area networks, that will include support of wide area networks in remote, disaster tolerant configurations. Also as part of the agreement, BROCADE and Legato will undertake joint sales and marketing activities and bring co-developed solutions to their respective OEM, VAR and system integrator channels.
"BROCADE's standards-based Fibre Channel fabric switches are the foundation of the worldwide storage area networking market," said Peter Tarrant, BROCADE vice president of marketing and business development. "We are pleased to be working with Legato to ensure interoperability among our products and deliver standards-based solutions for managing fibre channel fabrics."
"Legato Systems is excited to work with BROCADE to develop interoperable, standards-based solutions," said Nora M. Denzel, senior vice president at Legato Systems, Inc. "The combination of Legato's industry-leading storage management products with Brocade's innovative fabric management capabilities will enable our customers to realize the vision of the Information Utility."
The Legato partnership announcement follows the recent BROCADE OEM partnership with Computer Network Technology to drive the adoption of disaster-tolerant SANs over wide area networks. In conjunction with the Legato Information Utility event, BROCADE, CNT, and Legato will demonstrate, for the first time, a remote backup and restore application over an ATM long-distance connection.
About Legato Systems
Legato Systems, Inc. develops, markets, and supports an integrated set of enterprise storage management software products for heterogeneous client/server computing environments. Large customers around the world select the Company's solution because of its reliability, platform independence, and unique ability to seamlessly integrate with existing and future computing environments. Legato's storage management software has become the recognized de facto standard with the largest installed base, representing over 37,000 customers, protecting more than 4,000,000 systems. Twenty-four of the world's largest system and applications vendors have chosen Legato as a strategic partner for protecting their customers' data, including Banyan, Compaq, Data General, Fujitsu/Amdahl, Fujitsu/ICL, Groupe Bull, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Informix, NEC, Netscape, Network Appliance, Nihon-Unisys, Oracle, Siemens Nixdorf, Silicon Graphics, Sony and Sun Microsystems. The Company's NetWorker, BusinesSuite, SmartMedia, and GEMS products are also licensed, resold, or endorsed by other major vendors, including BMC Software; Box Hill; Computer Associates; Tivoli, an IBM company; Microsoft Corporation; MTI Technology; Novell; and SAP. Visit Legato at legato.com.
About BROCADE Communications Systems, Inc.
BROCADE is the leading supplier of Fibre Channel fabric solutions, which provide the intelligent backbone for Storage Area Networks (SANs). According to International Data Corporation, BROCADE supplies 84 percent of the Fibre Channel switches in use at corporate data centers worldwide. BROCADE manufactures and markets the SilkWorm(R) family of Fibre Channel switches and SAN management software to optimize data availability in the storage enterprise. Using BROCADE solutions, companies can simplify the implementation of Storage Area Networks, reduce the total cost of ownership of data storage environments, and improve network and application efficiency and performance.
Founded in 1995, BROCADE is a privately held company. The company's headquarters is at 1901 Guadalupe Parkway, San Jose, CA 95131. Visit BROCADE at brocade.com, or contact the company at info@brocade.com.
NOTE: BROCADE, SilkWorm and SilkWorm Express are trademarks or registered trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems Incorporated, in the United States and/or in other countries. Legato NetWorker and Legato SmartMedia are registered trademarks, and NetWorker Archive, NetWorker HSM, ClientPak, SmartClient, StorSuite, BusinesSuite, Power Edition, Legato GEMS, and OpenTape are trademarks of Legato Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of, and are used to identify, products or services of their respective owners.
SOURCE Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
CO: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.; Legato Systems, Inc.
ST: California
IN: CPR
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02/02/99 09:45 EST prnewswire.com |
