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LEGATO DELIVERS FIRST LINUX BACKUP SOLUTION FOR IBM zSeries

LEGATO Systems Inc, a worldwide leader in enterprise content and storage management software, delivers LEGATO NetWorker for Linux on the Mainframe, the industry's first complete backup and recovery solution for business-critical Linux data on IBM eServer zSeries. As part of LEGATO's total information protection solution for data centers, NetWorker for Linux on the Mainframe, minimizes downtime costs, reduces management overhead and maximizes ROI of storage resources.

"More and more of our customers are discovering the cost-effectiveness of consolidating hundreds of servers on a single IBM eServer zSeries running Linux," said Susan Dekeukelaere, IBM eServer zSeries Program Director. "With LEGATO's backup solution, customers can reliably protect and manage their mission-critical information."

"Though there are other backup and recovery alternatives for IBM eServer zSeries running Linux, the others lack the server/storage node functionality that is offered by LEGATO NetWorker for Linux on the Mainframe," commented David L. Beamer, executive vice president and COO, LEGATO Systems.

Among the many attributes of NetWorker is the ability to provide full, incremental or differential backups to tape or disk. The inclusion of the NetWorker Storage Node in the solution allows for multiple processes writing out to different tape devices simultaneously for better overall I/O performance. The solution also enables load sharing within a NetWorker data zone and increases scalability as the backup environment grows.

"Today's IBM mainframe customers generate large volumes of information that need to be protected and recovered. Therefore, it is imperative for companies to deploy a total information protection and management solution such as LEGATO NetWorker for Linux on the Mainframe, that can deliver reliability, manageability, scalability and enterprise-class performance across a heterogeneous storage environment," said Dr. Bill Claybrook, senior analyst, Aberdeen Group.

About Legato

LEGATO Systems Inc 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 as well as content, message and storage management solutions. The company's corporate headquarters are located at 2350 West El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040, 650-210-7000, fax: 650-210-7032, Web site: www.LEGATO.com.

Contact: Sandy O'Halloran, VP, Investor Relations, Legato Systems Inc, 650-210-7481, sandyoh@legato.com.