SGI Chooses Legato for Protection and Management of Business-Critical Information Worldwide.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2002 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. products to protect and manage 18 terabytes daily for world's leading provider of high performance computing Legato Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LGTO LGTO Legato Systems (stock symbol) ), a worldwide leader in enterprise storage management software, today announced that SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SGI), provider of SGI(R) advanced visualization, high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. and complex data management solutions, has selected Legato NetWorker(R) products exclusively to protect and manage information throughout SGI's 35 facilities worldwide. Legato products will protect and manage an average of 18 terabytes of data daily at SGI. "Legato Systems has the information protection and management solutions capable of delivering the scalability and openness that are essential to managing SGI's business-critical information," said Dean Drougas, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. and vice president of information services See Information Systems. , SGI. "The combined effectiveness of Legato's software solutions, consulting services and account management were critical factors in our decision to standardize on Legato products. We evaluated multiple vendors and Legato Systems' solutions were clearly superior in performance and capability." SGI will utilize Legato NetWorker Power Edition; NetWorker Power Edition Storage Nodes; Legato NetWorker Modules for Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. , Microsoft SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. ; and Legato Open File Manager to protect its business-critical information. Legato GEMS Console will be used to manage the information. In addition to SGI selecting NetWorker products for internal company needs, SGI also resells NetWorker to its creative and technical customers for backup protection and management as part of its complex data management solution portfolio. SGI provides data investment protection with end-to-end complex data management solutions for technical and creative customers. SGI solutions give customers the ability to effectively manage their largest, most complex data and content management challenges with custom solutions designed specifically for dynamic scalability and throughput. Legato NetWorker products are an integral component for backup protection to SGI's overall complex data management solutions. "SGI's selection of Legato as the single source for information protection and management worldwide is a strong endorsement of the reliability and scalability of Legato's products, as well as testimony to the quality of our consulting services and account management," said Kevin Walter Kevin Patrick Walter (born August 4, 1981 in Lake Forest, Illinois) is an American football wide receiver for the Houston Texans of the National Football League. High School , vice president, product management, Information Protection, Legato Systems. "We look forward to helping SGI maintain a high level of customer satisfaction throughout the world." About Legato Legato Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:LGTO) delivers worldwide enterprise class software solutions and services that keep the world's business-critical information and applications available. With a direct sales force and through strategic partnerships and alliances, Legato delivers the advantage of business continuance through enterprise automation with information protection, application availability and storage management solutions. The company's corporate headquarters are located at 2350 West El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
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