Amdahl Extends Relationship With Legato in Order to Provide Complete Solutions for Enterprise Customers Implementing SANs.Business Editors &High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000 Legato's Continuum of Data Protection and Data Availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. Products Are Also Major Components of Amdahl's Strategy to Enter the Emerging E-Services Market Legato (Legato Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, www.legato.com) A leading provider of storage management and high-availability software founded in 1988 and acquired by EMC Corporation in 2003. Legato software, including Celestra data management (data mining, data migration, etc. (R) Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LGTO LGTO Legato Systems (stock symbol) ), the leader in enterprise storage management software, today announced that Amdahl(R) Corporation is adding Legato Celestra(TM) Power, SmartMedia(R) and Replication software to its overall storage area network (SAN) solutions portfolio. These SAN-ready Legato products, in addition to those Amdahl already resells, will be integrated with various hardware and software components to provide a complete SAN solution for Amdahl's enterprise customers. This agreement is the first step in a major joint initiative between Legato, Amdahl, and its parent company, Fujitsu Limited, to provide integrated data availability and protection solutions to customers worldwide. End user customers have been hesitant to move ahead with SAN implementations because of the level of effort required to integrate effectively all of the hardware and software components. Amdahl and Legato are taking a leadership role in bringing integrated SAN solutions to the marketplace, particularly with regard to Celestra, which is the first technology of its kind to enable serverless data movement. The two companies have jointly tested and certified Celestra's leading-edge functionality to provide high speed disk-to-tape and tape-to-disk backup and restore capability. The Legato offerings are also core elements of the Amdahl Software Division's overall strategy focused on delivering continuous data availability demanded by enterprise customers worldwide. &uot;Applications such as e-commerce-driven data mining generate vast amounts of information required to support the business process,&uot; said Brett Radford, vice president of marketing for Amdahl's Software Division. &uot;Our solutions help customers achieve a competitive advantage by simplifying the complex tasks associated with data management. We believe Legato is a perfect match with technology that will allow us to offer customers better data availability solutions for mission critical environments.&uot; &uot;We are the only company that provides a complete continuum of data availability and data protection tools for strategic partners like Amdahl to selectively choose from so that they can fulfill the exacting service level agreements they develop with their own customers,&uot; said Kent Smith, executive vice president, Strategic Alliances, at Legato. &uot;Amdahl customers who choose Amdahl hardware and services in combination with Legato SAN-related products, and in particular, Celestra, are assured of a state-of-the-art SAN environment that addresses their escalating requirements for information continuance.&uot; About Legato Celestra, SmartMedia and Replication Celestra, which enables data to be moved directly from disk to tape, essentially bypassing the server and LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. , is the first technology to eliminate the need for a backup window. Traditional backup and recovery operations Operations conducted to search for, locate, identify, rescue, and return personnel, sensitive equipment, or items critical to national security. can significantly impact the performance of application servers and LANs, resulting in long periods of user lockout lockout, intentional closing up of a company, factory, or shop by an employer to prevent employees from working during a strike or labor dispute. The term lockout and network downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. . Celestra removes valuable LAN, CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output resources from the data path, by moving data directly from disk to tape. Using advanced snapshot technology, backups are completed live at ultra-high speeds, enabling 24x7 high-performance information access and complete protection of data assets. Legato SmartMedia is an open media management application that provides standard interfaces for applications, robotic library control, drive control, and administration that enables enterprises to better manage their growing base of removable media In computer storage, removable media refers to storage media which can be removed from its reader device, conferring portability on the data it carries. A removable drive is a reader device for such media. and devices distributed across a heterogeneous storage environment. Legato SmartMedia addresses enterprise requirements for library and drive sharing and central tape and device management. Legato Replication delivers volume-based, disk-to-disk data replication within a single storage system or over LAN, WAN, and SAN connections, which enables continuous operations against mission-critical data. It also provides real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. replication for virtually any data type in most standard system configurations. For additional information on all of Legato Systems' enterprise storage management software products, please contact Legato sales via phone at 650/812-6000 or via email at sales@legato.com. About Legato Legato Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LGTO), is a worldwide leader in the enterprise storage management software market. Helping companies leverage business-critical, corporate data assets, Legato's products and services enable information continuance, a seamless approach to the movement, management and protection of data throughout an enterprise. Founded in 1988, Legato's storage management software products have become the recognized industry standard with the largest installed base representing over 65,000 customers. Legato's products are available through a network of Legato-licensed resellers, integrators and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners and directly from Legato. More information is available at www.legato.com. Telephone: 650/812-6000. About Amdahl Amdahl Corporation (company) Amdahl Corporation - A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and , a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Fujitsu Limited, provides integrated computing solutions that meet the needs of many of the largest users of information technology in the world. Amdahl develops and deploys systems, services and support that meet the needs of the world's most compute-intensive organizations and environments. With more than 28 years of experience delivering large-scale computing and client/server technology, the Amdahl mission is to deliver innovative systems, services and support to lead customers to the most complete and powerful data centers of the 21st century. For more information go to www.amdahl.com. Note to Editors: The Legato logo design, Legato, Legato NetWorker, SmartMedia, and ClientPak are registered trademarks, and Celestra, Co-StandbyServer, GEMS, and SnapShotServer are trademarks of Legato Systems, Inc. Amdahl is a registered trademark of Amdahl Corporation. 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