Legato and Maxtor Announce Agreement to Provide Industry-First High Availability Network Attached Storage Solution Based on Windows
Announcement posted by Legato Systems Inc. 27 Sep 2001
Legato High Availability Software to be Embedded With MaxAttach Storage Servers
Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO), a worldwide leader in hard disk drives and data storage solutions, and Legato Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:LGTO), a worldwide leader in enterprise storage management software, announced today an agreement to jointly develop tightly-coupled solutions that incorporate Legato's high-availability software technologies with Maxtor's family of MaxAttach storage servers
The integrated Maxtor-Legato solutions, expected to ship in the fourth quarter of this year, will be offered as an enhancement for MaxAttach NAS 4300 and NAS 6000 storage servers. The solutions will also be offered as add-on upgrades to currently shipping systems.
Legato's technology will enhance Maxtor's data availability by continuously replicating files between two MaxAttach storage servers. If either server becomes unavailable due to failure or connection problems, the other will remain available to fulfill client requests and provide access to the data. The combination of data replication and automatic server switchover technologies will increase Maxtor's system uptime by eliminating single-points-of-failure and provide an even higher return on customers' MaxAttach investments.
"Our joint development efforts are designed to elevate the value proposition for network attached storage as a sophisticated storage alternative to general-purpose NT server based systems," said Eric Kelly, president of Maxtor's Network Systems Group. "The superior robustness of Legato's award-winning software combined with the reliability and cost effectiveness of the MaxAttach platform will create a revolutionary new path to 24X7 data availability."
The solution is designed for simplified drop-in deployment, and provides centralized management across multiple MaxAttach servers for local or remote systems operators. These capabilities further boost the solution's value to enterprise customers, by ensuring the solution's suitability for deployment in remote branch office environments leveraging centralized administration.
"This is the first time that pre-configured high-availability storage solutions will be offered on a NAS Windows-based platform, and we are pleased to team with Maxtor toward reaching this important breakthrough," said Charles Fonner, vice president, worldwide marketing, Legato Systems. "Through our collaboration, we will enable an out-of-the-box, high-availability solution that offers enterprise-class functionality at significantly lower costs than competitive methods."
The new agreement with Legato enhances the relationship between the two companies, and demonstrates Legato's leadership in both application availability and information protection. In March 2001, Maxtor and Legato announced the availability of a disk-to-disk data protection solution that combines the MaxAttach 4000 Series storage servers with Legato NetWorker for fast and reliable backup and recovery. The solution continues to be marketed by Maxtor through its network of authorized resellers.
About Legato's Windows High Availability Solutions
Legato High Availability solutions for Windows maximize the availability and reliability of mission critical data and applications on Windows NT and 2000 platforms. These solutions also replicate data stored on Windows NT/2000-attached disks in many-to-many configurations among local and remote server systems, making mission-critical data available wherever and whenever it is needed. Legato's solutions continue to earn industry-leading awards year after year, demonstrating Legato's innovation in bringing high availability technology to the Windows market.
About MaxAttach NAS Storage Servers
The MaxAttach family includes the NAS 4100, NAS 4300 and NAS 6000 storage servers. They install in less than 10 minutes with no network downtime and provide centralized management through a familiar, easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI). Key features include network status reporting, automatic e-mail alerts and RAID 0, 1 and 5 data redundancy for data protection. Multiple Ethernet ports, Gigabit Ethernet, a journaling file system and integrated UPS support ensure high performance, system availability and fault tolerance. A SCSI port and preinstalled backup software enable local backup to tape.
About Legato
Legato Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:LGTO), the award winning software innovator, specializes in providing its customers with a seamless approach for protecting, moving and making available business-critical company information. Legato pioneered the industry standard for storage management software products. More than 10,000 customers, including Fortune 1000 companies, are utilizing more than 65,000 Legato software product licenses worldwide. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, USA, Legato has an established global presence with offices in 23 countries to fully serve its customers. Legato is a founding member of the Storage Networking Industry Association. For more information on Legato Systems, Inc., its products and services visit www.legato.com.
The companys head office in Australia is located at Level 10, 100 Walker Street, North Sydney NSW 2060. For further information or details on pricing and availability please call Legato Systems on (61 2) 9929 4944.
About Maxtor
Maxtor Corporation (www.maxtor.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers of information storage solutions. The company has an expansive line of storage products for desktop computers, network storage, high-performance Intel-based servers, and consumer electronics. Maxtor has a reputation of being a proven market leader, providing consistent high-quality products, service and support for its customers. Maxtor and its products can be found at www.maxtor.com or by calling toll-free (800) 2-MAXTOR. Maxtor is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the MXO symbol.
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Legato, The Legato logo design, Legato NetWorker, Celestra, GEMS and SmartMedia are registered trademarks and Co-StandbyServer, RepliStor, SnapShotServer, QuikStartz and San Academy are trademarks or servicemarks of Legato Systems, Inc. All other brand and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Maxtor MaxAttach and the Maxtor logo are registered trademarks of Maxtor Corporation. The Legato logo design, Legato, Legato Octopus and Legato Co-StandbyServer are registered trademarks of Legato Systems, Inc.
All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the demand and customer acceptance of our products, our business pipeline and our operations and prospects for fiscal year 2001. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially. Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, the Company's ability to close larger contracts in the challenging IT spending environment, continued weakness in the economy, the ability of the Company to continue to develop and update products for which there is market demand, customers' acceptance of our contract terms, integration of new products, executives and employees, unexpected fluctuations in quarterly operating results, product concentration, competition from other companies, and rapid technological change. For a more detailed discussion of these factors, and other factors that could cause the Company's actual results to vary materially, interested parties should review the "Risk Factors" listed in the Company's Form 10-K for fiscal 2000 and the Forms 10-Q for the second and third quarters of fiscal 2000, which are on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements in this press release reflect the Company's beliefs and predictions as of September 11, 2001. The Company disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements as a result of financial, business or any other developments occurring after September 11, 2001.
This announcement relating to Maxtor may contain forward-looking statements concerning future technology, products incorporating that technology, and Maxtor's execution. These statements are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties which could materially affect the company's results, including, but not limited to, market demand for network attached storage, the company's ability to execute future production ramps and utilize manufacturing assets efficiently, pricing, competition, and the significant uncertainty of market acceptance of new products. These and other risk factors are contained in documents that the company files with the SEC, including the Form 10-K for fiscal 2000 and its recent 10-Qs.
The integrated Maxtor-Legato solutions, expected to ship in the fourth quarter of this year, will be offered as an enhancement for MaxAttach NAS 4300 and NAS 6000 storage servers. The solutions will also be offered as add-on upgrades to currently shipping systems.
Legato's technology will enhance Maxtor's data availability by continuously replicating files between two MaxAttach storage servers. If either server becomes unavailable due to failure or connection problems, the other will remain available to fulfill client requests and provide access to the data. The combination of data replication and automatic server switchover technologies will increase Maxtor's system uptime by eliminating single-points-of-failure and provide an even higher return on customers' MaxAttach investments.
"Our joint development efforts are designed to elevate the value proposition for network attached storage as a sophisticated storage alternative to general-purpose NT server based systems," said Eric Kelly, president of Maxtor's Network Systems Group. "The superior robustness of Legato's award-winning software combined with the reliability and cost effectiveness of the MaxAttach platform will create a revolutionary new path to 24X7 data availability."
The solution is designed for simplified drop-in deployment, and provides centralized management across multiple MaxAttach servers for local or remote systems operators. These capabilities further boost the solution's value to enterprise customers, by ensuring the solution's suitability for deployment in remote branch office environments leveraging centralized administration.
"This is the first time that pre-configured high-availability storage solutions will be offered on a NAS Windows-based platform, and we are pleased to team with Maxtor toward reaching this important breakthrough," said Charles Fonner, vice president, worldwide marketing, Legato Systems. "Through our collaboration, we will enable an out-of-the-box, high-availability solution that offers enterprise-class functionality at significantly lower costs than competitive methods."
The new agreement with Legato enhances the relationship between the two companies, and demonstrates Legato's leadership in both application availability and information protection. In March 2001, Maxtor and Legato announced the availability of a disk-to-disk data protection solution that combines the MaxAttach 4000 Series storage servers with Legato NetWorker for fast and reliable backup and recovery. The solution continues to be marketed by Maxtor through its network of authorized resellers.
About Legato's Windows High Availability Solutions
Legato High Availability solutions for Windows maximize the availability and reliability of mission critical data and applications on Windows NT and 2000 platforms. These solutions also replicate data stored on Windows NT/2000-attached disks in many-to-many configurations among local and remote server systems, making mission-critical data available wherever and whenever it is needed. Legato's solutions continue to earn industry-leading awards year after year, demonstrating Legato's innovation in bringing high availability technology to the Windows market.
About MaxAttach NAS Storage Servers
The MaxAttach family includes the NAS 4100, NAS 4300 and NAS 6000 storage servers. They install in less than 10 minutes with no network downtime and provide centralized management through a familiar, easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI). Key features include network status reporting, automatic e-mail alerts and RAID 0, 1 and 5 data redundancy for data protection. Multiple Ethernet ports, Gigabit Ethernet, a journaling file system and integrated UPS support ensure high performance, system availability and fault tolerance. A SCSI port and preinstalled backup software enable local backup to tape.
About Legato
Legato Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:LGTO), the award winning software innovator, specializes in providing its customers with a seamless approach for protecting, moving and making available business-critical company information. Legato pioneered the industry standard for storage management software products. More than 10,000 customers, including Fortune 1000 companies, are utilizing more than 65,000 Legato software product licenses worldwide. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, USA, Legato has an established global presence with offices in 23 countries to fully serve its customers. Legato is a founding member of the Storage Networking Industry Association. For more information on Legato Systems, Inc., its products and services visit www.legato.com.
The companys head office in Australia is located at Level 10, 100 Walker Street, North Sydney NSW 2060. For further information or details on pricing and availability please call Legato Systems on (61 2) 9929 4944.
About Maxtor
Maxtor Corporation (www.maxtor.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers of information storage solutions. The company has an expansive line of storage products for desktop computers, network storage, high-performance Intel-based servers, and consumer electronics. Maxtor has a reputation of being a proven market leader, providing consistent high-quality products, service and support for its customers. Maxtor and its products can be found at www.maxtor.com or by calling toll-free (800) 2-MAXTOR. Maxtor is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the MXO symbol.
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Legato, The Legato logo design, Legato NetWorker, Celestra, GEMS and SmartMedia are registered trademarks and Co-StandbyServer, RepliStor, SnapShotServer, QuikStartz and San Academy are trademarks or servicemarks of Legato Systems, Inc. All other brand and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Maxtor MaxAttach and the Maxtor logo are registered trademarks of Maxtor Corporation. The Legato logo design, Legato, Legato Octopus and Legato Co-StandbyServer are registered trademarks of Legato Systems, Inc.
All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the demand and customer acceptance of our products, our business pipeline and our operations and prospects for fiscal year 2001. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially. Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, the Company's ability to close larger contracts in the challenging IT spending environment, continued weakness in the economy, the ability of the Company to continue to develop and update products for which there is market demand, customers' acceptance of our contract terms, integration of new products, executives and employees, unexpected fluctuations in quarterly operating results, product concentration, competition from other companies, and rapid technological change. For a more detailed discussion of these factors, and other factors that could cause the Company's actual results to vary materially, interested parties should review the "Risk Factors" listed in the Company's Form 10-K for fiscal 2000 and the Forms 10-Q for the second and third quarters of fiscal 2000, which are on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements in this press release reflect the Company's beliefs and predictions as of September 11, 2001. The Company disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements as a result of financial, business or any other developments occurring after September 11, 2001.
This announcement relating to Maxtor may contain forward-looking statements concerning future technology, products incorporating that technology, and Maxtor's execution. These statements are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties which could materially affect the company's results, including, but not limited to, market demand for network attached storage, the company's ability to execute future production ramps and utilize manufacturing assets efficiently, pricing, competition, and the significant uncertainty of market acceptance of new products. These and other risk factors are contained in documents that the company files with the SEC, including the Form 10-K for fiscal 2000 and its recent 10-Qs.