Legato Systems Announces High Performance, Online Backup For Informix Databases.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)--July 1, 1996--Legato Systems Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : LGTO LGTO Legato Systems (stock symbol) ), a leader in the enterprise storage management software market, today announced its NetWorker Database Module for Informix to provide high performance protection for Informix databases running on UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . NetWorker provides storage management services See SMS. (storage) Storage Management Services - (SMS) Software that enables network administrators to route backup data from various devices on a network to another device such as a server or a magnetic tape backup unit. for INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server's enhanced backup and restore utility allowing database administrators to back up Informix databases while they remain on-line and in use. Customers can now back up very large databases in the reduced time window that 24x7 operation demands. As customers move more mission-critical databases from mainframes to distributed networks, they need a way to protect this data from user errors, disk crashes, application errors, power failure and other unexpected failures. The high performance of Legato's Database Module allows frequent, regularly scheduled "lights-out" database backups to ensure high system availability. Gilbert Wai, senior vice president of product development at Legato Systems, said, "Legato has a strong commitment to database protection as part of our network-wide data protection strategy. The Database Module for Informix, when coupled with NetWorker's advanced features for media management such as autochanger See autoloader. support, tape labeling, tape rotation, and tape scheduling, allows Legato to deliver a very powerful database backup protection to the market. We're pleased to add Informix support to our existing suite of products which back up databases and key applications." Legato has an active development relationship with Informix through the Informix Solutions Alliance Partner Program. Steve Sommer Sommer is a surname, from the German and Danish word for the season "summer". It may refer to:
The Database Module extends NetWorker's media management features and ease-of-use to databases. Paper tracking of tapes and database configurations is no longer necessary, substantially reducing the administrative burden for database backup. The Database Module features fully unattended, "lights-out" operation and includes the ability to schedule partial or full backups on a regular or rotating schedule. NetWorker also offers support for a wide range of optical and tape devices, including autochangers, which minimizes operator intervention. Pricing and Availability Legato's Database Module for Informix will begin shipping in September 1996. Pricing will be announced at that time. The Database Module can be installed with NetWorker software on Sun Solaris 2.4 or higher, and will soon be available on IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX/6000 and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Background on Legato Systems Legato Systems Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, develops, markets and supports network storage management software products for heterogeneous client/server computing environments. Legato is a technology leader in the network storage management software market because of the heterogeneity, scalability, performance and ease of use of its software products. The Company's flagship software product, NetWorker, supports many storage management server platforms and can accommodate a variety of clients, servers and storage devices. Legato's long-term strategy is to create an integrated set of solutions centered around storage management that enhance and simplify network computing as a whole. -0- Note To Editors: Legato NetWorker is a registered trademark, and NetWorker Archive, NetWorker HSM (1) (Hierarchical Storage Management) The automatic movement of files from hard disk to slower, less-expensive storage media. The typical hierarchy is from magnetic disk to optical disc to tape. , ClientPak, SmartClient, SmartMedia, StorSuite, Legato Data Backup Utility, 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. CONTACT: Legato Systems Inc., Palo Alto Suzan Woods, 415/812-6112 |
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