Legato Systems Announces Industry-Exclusive Cluster-Aware Failover of Backup and Recovery Services for SAP R/3 Solutions On Oracle 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)--March 24, 1999--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 the availability of Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite Module 1.3 for SAP(TM) R/3(R) running on Oracle databases. Building on Legato's strengths of high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and scalability, the new release teams with Legato NetWorker 5.5 Power Edition to provide one of the industry's only solutions for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition (MSCS See Microsoft Cluster Server. ) clusters with failover of backup and recovery services for SAP R/3 data on Oracle databases. SAP customers can be confident of the new solution because SAP has tested and certified the interface for Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite Module 1.3 for SAP R/3 Release 4.0. The new Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite Module also provides Compaq TruCluster failover of backup and recovery services for the SAP R/3 solution on Oracle database on Compaq's Digital UNIX platform. With these added capabilities, this release demonstrates Legato's continued commitment to multi-platform support and high availability technical leadership with clustering for Windows NT and Digital UNIX. "Our membership in the SAP Complementary Software Program keeps us in close touch with the needs of SAP R/3 users," said Paul J.J. Payack, vice president of Marketing at Legato Systems, Inc. "We are excited to provide maximum data accessibility and availability for the SAP R/3 solution, exploiting Windows NT and Digital UNIX clustered environments. This demonstrates our strong commitment to facilitating business continuance for R/3 users." Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite Module 1.3 provides a complete cluster-aware solution with failover protection by providing all three core elements of high availability: Business Continuance - the ability to avoid or minimize planned downtime; Fault Tolerance - the ability to avoid or minimize unplanned downtime; and Recovery Management - the ability to recover from a disaster. The new module continues to provide the industry's most expansive tape device, autochanger See autoloader. and library support. IT managers use the Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite Module for the SAP R/3 solution to increase application availability with its fast, online backup of R/3 on the Oracle database on both Windows NT and 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). . The Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite product family is used in thousands of installations that require high-speed database and application-specific backup and recovery solutions. Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite features a database-centric approach that reliably and efficiently protects business critical applications, including those from leading vendors such as Microsoft, Lotus, 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) , SAP, Oracle, Informix, and Sybase. Pricing Legato NetWorker BusinesSuite Module 1.3 for SAP R/3 on Oracle is priced by platform. The NT Client is $3,600 base or $4,140 with update service. The UNIX Client is $12,000 base or $13,800 with update service. All prices are U.S. dollars. 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 Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, 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 (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , 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 MTI Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore) MTI Metal Treating Institute MTI Moving Target Indicator (radar) MTI Magyar Távirati Iroda (news agency in Budapest, Hungary) Technology, and Novell. Legato NetWorker is also Computer Associates-ready and Tivoli-ready. Legato's home page address on the World Wide Web is http://www.legato.com. Note to Editors: Legato NetWorker and Legato SmartMedia are registered trademarks, 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, StorSuite, BusinesSuite, Power Edition, Legato GEMS, and OpenTape are trademarks of Legato Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. SAP, R/3 and all SAP product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG. All other product, trademark, company, or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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