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StoneFly NETWORKS AND LEGATO TEAM UP

StoneFly Networks, an innovator of IP-based storage provisioning appliances that enable real-time management and optimization of new and existing storage assets, and LEGATO Systems Inc, a global storage management software company, recently announced that the companies have teamed to provide seamless disk-to-disk backup and restore capabilities in IP-based storage area networks (IP SANs) and standard Ethernet networks. StoneFly Networks' Storage Concentrator storage provisioning appliance coupled with LEGATO NetWorker backup software provide enterprise customers with a simple, centralized disk-to-disk backup solution that provides superior manageability and high performance data backups in business-critical enterprises.

Through its IP SAN Partner Program, which was designed to ensure resellers and customers of "plug and play" installation and deployment, StoneFly Networks has qualified LEGATO Systems leading backup and recovery software, LEGATO NetWorker as fully interoperable with the StoneFly Networks complete family of Storage Concentrators. From the LEGATO NetWorker backup software users can easily view Storage Concentrator logical volumes to conduct backups of server-attached storage and also restore that data from the IP SAN logical volumes to the server-attached storage disks. This complete storage provisioning and data backup bundle delivers a fully tested and supported solution that installs in minutes while production systems continue to operate.

"Both StoneFly and LEGATO are committed to providing our customers with innovative, interoperable storage solutions that offer the highest level of data manageability and protection," said Kevin J. Liebl, vice president of business development, StoneFly Networks Inc. "Together, we provide our joint resellers and end users with a solution set that ensures truly simple, centralized storage management, optimized backups and guarantees high performance data restoration across multi-vendor host platforms."

About StoneFly Networks Storage Concentrators

The StoneFly Networks complete line of Storage Concentrators are IP-based storage provisioning appliances that enable SMEs and large enterprises to manage and optimize their storage assets in real-time. Combining the functionality of an iSCSI router and bridge with the power of a storage provisioning engine, Storage Concentrators are installed as a centralized appliance at the core of the network for logical volume management and disaster recovery protection of cost effective IP SANs. To alleviate the challenges of storage management in a distributed environment, StoneFly's Storage Concentrators leverage the proliferation of Gigabit Ethernet and IP in the enterprise more cost effectively and with greater efficiency than existing solutions. While Fibre Channel and server-based volume management can be costly and complex, StoneFly's Storage Concentrators allow simple, intelligent, and affordable SANs by utilizing the existing IP network infrastructure.

"LEGATO is a leader in driving the adoption of feature-rich, standards-based storage management solutions and our global customer base relies on us for this," said Victoria Grey, vice president, Information Protection, LEGATO Systems Inc. "Interoperability with StoneFly further executes upon our strategy to deliver the most efficient, effective solutions for disk-based backup and recovery with NetWorker, by bringing this functionality in an IP SAN environment."

About LEGATO NetWorker

With more than 100,000 NetWorker server licenses worldwide, LEGATO's information protection software protects the business-critical data of enterprise customers by simplifying and centralizing backup and recovery operations across heterogeneous environments. Built upon an open, highly scalable architecture, NetWorker reduces management overhead by automating the protection of storage assets for the largest corporate data centers to the smallest satellite branch offices.

Availability

The StoneFly Networks Storage Concentrators and LEGATO NetWorker are available now through StoneFly's and LEGATO's channel distribution partners and select resellers. StoneFly's newly announced i2000 FailOver Pair will be available late in the second quarter. For resellers, StoneFly provides a comprehensive reseller guide with simple-to-follow instructions for the Storage Concentrator/NetWorker solution installation and setup. Storage Concentrators come standard with a one-year, 24x7, 4-hour on-site warranty, at no additional cost.