Legato Systems, StorageTek, and Crossroads Form Strategic Alliance to Build Open, Intelligent SAN Solutions
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1999--Legato Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LGTO), a leader in the enterprise storage management software market, StorageTek(R) (Storage Technology Corp., NYSE:STK), the preeminent provider of network storage, and Crossroads Systems, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of Fibre Channel storage routers, today announced a strategic initiative to deliver SAN-based serverless backup and to drive industry standards for intelligent data movement in Storage Area Networks (SANs). This solution provides customers with the capability to move critical data directly from disk to tape without server intervention and without impacting production networks. The solution will utilize technology from all three companies, and is based on the emerging third-party copy standard being developed by the Storage Networking Industry Alliance (SNIA). This standard is structured around the Celestra architecture from Intelliguard Software for moving data within a SAN. On January 28, 1999 Legato announced its intention to acquire Intelliguard Software, Inc. of Dublin, CA.
Today, a customer typically has to back up from disk by going over their network and through their server. This can have an impact on performance of business applications. The serverless backup solution announced today eliminates the need for using either the production network or server for data movement. In this way, a customer with StorageTek OPENstorage(TM) disks, tape libraries, and StorageNet(TM) SANs, including Crossroad's storage routers, could use Intelliguard's Celestra software and Legato NetWorker to back up their systems at any time during the day without impacting the servers on the Local Area Network (LAN).
Providing this kind of data movement intelligence in the SAN is the next step in SAN evolution. Legato, StorageTek, and Crossroads are now working together to make this a reality. In order to facilitate open SAN solutions, the companies will also cooperatively promote open industry standards for data movement through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to SAN-based data movers.
"Serverless backup is the next key deliverable in Legato's vision of the information utility. This alliance brings together three industry leaders who are focused on delivering real and timely value to companies that require a seamless, open solution to their backup problems," said Kent Smith, COO for Legato Systems, Inc.
"Data movement without host intervention is a strategic initiative at StorageTek, and our work with Legato and Crossroads is an important step toward our goal of open, intelligent, and integrated SAN solutions," said Joan Wrabetz, vice president and general manager, SAN Operations Business Group, StorageTek. "Serverless backup is a strategic intelligent SAN application that will give our customers much simpler and more efficient storage management. By working with partners like Crossroads and Legato, we are able to ensure that our customers will have intelligent SAN solutions that are open and multi-vendor."
"Serverless backup dramatically increases the efficiencies of customers' systems," said Brian Smith, CEO of Crossroads Systems. "Having Legato as a partner offers Crossroads the opportunity to provide tested and verified products to our customers in order to minimize risk and simplify installations in an open systems environment."
Legato is uniquely positioned as the only provider of a fully integrated storage management solution based upon a consistent, scalable, and manageable architecture. The company's software is designed to ensure distributed data and applications remain available to users by minimizing operational downtime -- both planned and unplanned. The company's software has become the recognized de facto storage management standard with the largest installed based of more than 37,000 customers, protecting more than 4,000,000 systems.
About Crossroads Systems, Inc.
Over the next five years, the integration of networks and storage will deliver startling advances in the way data is stored, managed and accessed. Crossroads Systems, Inc., the de facto standard in storage routing, is at the forefront of these efforts. Crossroads Systems is dedicated to delivering high-availability, system-independent Storage Networking solutions. The Crossroads Verified SAN Solutions Guide (CV-SAN), available on Crossroads' Web site, provides tested SAN configurations though the Crossroads Interoperability Labs to simplify systems design and installation. Industry leading OEMs such as Compaq, Dell, Hewlett Packard, and StorageTek have elected to partner with Crossroads to provide these solutions to their customers. The company's headquarters are located in Austin, Texas. For more information on Crossroads Systems and its products, please call 800/643-7148 or visit www.crossroads.com.
About StorageTek
StorageTek is the preeminent provider of network storage. The company's strategy is to provide "open, intelligent and integrated"(TM) solutions that combine storage products, storage management software and storage services. StorageTek solutions help customers collect, move, store, share, and protect all types of digital content on platforms ranging from laptops to enterprise servers. The company, with headquarters in Louisville, Colo., reported revenue of $2.3 billion in 1998. Information on StorageTek is available on the World Wide Web at www.storagetek.com or phone 800/786-7835.
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, StorageTek, 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, Microsoft Corporation, MTI Technology, Novell, and SAP. Legato NetWorker is also Computer Associates-ready and Tivoli-ready. Legato's home page address on the World Wide Web is legato.com.
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