Compaq Services Selects Legato Systems to Support Customers' Enterprise
Storage Management Outsourcing Requirements
PALO ALTO, CALIF. (April 5) BUSINESS WIRE -April 5, 1999--Legato
Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: LGTO), the leader in the enterprise storage
management software market, today announced that it has signed a
worldwide licensing agreement with Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:
CPQ), a recognized leader in enterprise computing. Under the agreement,
Compaq Services' Operations Management Services business will purchase
and resell the Legato suite of products as needed to meet client
requirements. Compaq Services is using Legato NetWorker, Legato GEMS,
and Legato SmartMedia as part of its enterprise-class data management
and business-critical storage services outsourcing solution for global
customers.
Compaq chose Legato Systems because of its market leadership and years
of experience in providing scalable, heterogeneous data protection for
large enterprises with complex, distributed computing environments.
Legato brings world-class data management technology to computing
environments ranging from workgroup configurations to multi-site,
multi-server, terabyte size Microsoft Windows NT, UNIX, and NetWare
installations. Compaq Services complements Legato's products with more
than 20 years of experience providing lifecycle services including
design, implementation, support, and management of enterprise
customers' entire computing environments, of which storage is a
critical component.
"Together, Compaq Services and Legato team to develop, deliver, and
support the enterprise storage management solutions required by our
mutual customers," said Tim Leisman, Vice President and General
Manager, Operations Management Services, Compaq Services. "We've been
using Legato products for more than two years as part of our
FutureSourcing(SM) capabilities, helping clients to manage computing
infrastructures that support applications such as enterprise resource
planning, Internet commerce, and messaging and collaboration."
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 40,000 customers, protecting more than 4,000,000 systems.
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 40,000 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 AG, 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, and Novell. Legato NetWorker is also Computer
Associates-ready and Tivoli-ready. Legato's home page address on the
World Wide Web is legato.com.
Note to Editors: 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 product, trademark, company, or service
names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
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CONTACT: Legato Systems, Inc.
Suzan Woods, 650/812-6112
swoods@legato.com |
