Company Backgrounder

Protecting and managing network data is accomplished differently in almost every organization. Therefore, products need to be flexible enough to support a variety of environments and functionality requirements. To meet these varied situations, Legato has structured its products to support client/server environments composed of multiple desktops, servers, and applications.

Storage Management

NetWorker

Legato NetWorker® is the first high performance network storage management application for the following key networking environments –- NetWare, Windows NT, multiple UNIX operating systems, and a mixture of them all. NetWorker is architected for today’s large, complex, distributed computing environment. Data is written to NetWorker's OpenTape format which is a de-facto standard tape format that is supported by over thirty vendors of data storage management products.

When customers purchase NetWorker, they have purchased a scalable storage management server that can be configured for network backup, recovery, archival, and file migration services. NetWorker is scalable for any size network. Server operating systems supported by NetWorker include Novell NetWare, SunOS and Solaris, IBM, AIX/6000, HP-UX, SCO UNIX, and those from 14 Legato OEMs.

NetWorker also provides protection for desktop systems with client software for DOS/Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, UnixWare, SCO UNIX, Solaris, SunOS, AIX/6000, HP-UX, LAN Server, Digital UNIX, Macintosh, Silicon Graphics, and Sony systems.

NetWorker for NetWare (IntranetWare™)

NetWorker for NetWare is a NetWare Loadable Module (NLM). Its GUI-based interface eases the task of protecting data for single NetWare servers or multiple NetWare servers supporting hundreds of gigabytes of data. NetWorker for NetWare completely and reliably backs up and restores all data, including bindery or directory files, extended file attributes, and security information for NetWare 3 and 4 file servers and connected desktops. It is fully compliant with Novell Storage Management Services (SMS) which ensures complete compatibility with NetWare – now and in the future – and reliably protects all data residing on the network.

Legato NetWorker is licensed, jointly developed, resold, or endorsed by major system vendors, including: Apple, Amdahl, Banyan, Compaq, Data General, Data Tools, Digital Equipment, EMASS, Emprise Technologies, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, ICL, Intergraph, Interlink, Microsoft, MTI, Novell, Oracle, SAP, Sequent, Siemens Nixdorf, Silicon Graphics, Sony, Sun Microsystems, SunSoft, Tandem, Tivoli, and Unisys.

End users can call 415-812-6001 or fax Legato at 415-812-6032 for more information. Legato’s FaxWorker system at 415-812-6156 enables immediate access to marketing and technical information. Legato’s Market Relations (PR) contact is Suzan Woods, Director of Market Relations, at 415-812-6112.

Internet: http://www.legato.com

NEW address:

Legato Systems, Inc.
3210 Porter Drive
Palo Alto, CA 94304
U.S.A.

1988	Legato Systems, Inc. Founded
July 1989	Legato Introduces First Product, Prestoserve
June 1990	Legato Introduces NetWorker for UNIX
December 1990	NetWorker Named “Product of the Year” by Unix World
August 1991	Intergraph and Silicon Graphics License NetWorker for UNIX
December 1991	DEC and Sequent License NetWorker for UNIX
January 1992	Legato Introduces NetWorker for NetWare
October 1992	Legato Announces UnixWare Client Support
December 1992	InfoWorld Ranks NetWorker Number One
January 1993	NetWorker for NetWare Named “1993 Product of the Year” by LAN Magazine
February 1993	Legato Announces Technology Exchange with Novell
February 1993	Eric Benhamou, President and CEO of 3Com Corporation, Joins Legato Board of Directors
May 1993	Conner Peripherals Licenses NetWorker for NetWare
June 1993	ICL Licenses NetWorker for UNIX
August 1993	Compaq to Resell NetWorker for SCO UNIX
September 1993	Innovus Licenses NetWorker for HP 9000 Servers
September 1993	Banyan and Legato Partner on Storage Management
October 1993	Legato and IBM Announce Agreement for NetWorker on LAN Server and LAN NetView
November 1993	SCO and Legato Introduce Legato NetWorker for SCO UNIX
November 1993	Legato Supports Exabyte’s New EXB-210 8mm Library
January 1994	Legato Announces NetWorker-Oracle Database Module
January 1994	Legato Announces Shipment of Windows and OS/2 Client
February 1994	Ingram Micro, SunExpress, and Tech Data to Resell Legato NetWorker
March 1994	Legato Announces NetWorker Support for Emprise Stage3
March 1994	Legato Introduces NetWorker 3.0 for NetWare
March 1994	Legato and SunSoft Announce Joint Technology Licensing and Distribution Agreement
April 1994	Datatools SQL-BackTrack NetWorker Module Automates Database Backup with Legato NetWorker 4.0
April 1994	NetWorker Chosen as Editor’s Favorite by Network Computing Magazine, “10 Products You Can’t Live Without”
May 1994	Legato Systems Announces Support for SIDF
May 1994	Legato Announces New Device Support Supplement Program
June 1994	Legato and Fujitsu Sign Agreement
July 1994	Legato Announces its July Device Support Supplement
July 1994	NetWorker Now Standard in Compaq SmartStart CD-ROM
August 1994	Legato Announces Enhancements to ClientPak I and II
October 1994	Legato Announces its October Device Support Supplement
November 1994	Legato Names Gilbert Wai Sr. VP of Product Development
December 1994	Legato Announces NetWorker Archive Application and “archive-ready” NetWorker 4.1 for Unix
December 1994	Legato Announces First Enterprise Storage Management Application for Windows NT
January 1995	Digital’s POLYCENTER NetWorker Save and Restore Adds Client-side Archiving, Windows NT for Intel Support
February 1995	Legato Announces Third Generation Release of NetWorker for NetWare 3.1
March 1995	Legato Announces Strategic Partnerships with Mainframe Storage Management Providers
March 1995	Legato Announces SNMP Support for NetWorker
May 1995	Legato Systems Announces World Wide Web Site
May 1995	Legato Names New Member of Board of Directors (Phillip E. White, Chairman, CEO and President of Informix Software, Inc.)
May 1995	Legato Names Kent Smith Executive VP Customer Operations
July 1995	Legato Announces Initial Public Offering
August 1995	Legato NetWorker for NetWare Chosen as Editors' Favorite by PC Magazine
August 1995	Legato Announces Two New Versions of NetWorker
August 1995	Legato Announces New Data Backup Utility for the Entry- Level NetWare Storage Management Market
September 1995	Legato Teams Up with Industry Leaders to Deliver Enterprise Storage Management
October 1995	EMASS and Legato Systems to Integrate NetWorker Backup Software with Family of AML Scalable Libraries
October 1995	HP to Provide Europe-wide Distribution and Support for NetWorker for HP 9000 Storage-Management Tool
October 1995	Legato Announces the Industry's First Enterprise Storage Management Solution for Microsoft Windows NT
October 1995	Legato Announces a Revolutionary Approach to Protecting Data on Macintosh Systems
November 1995	Legato Announces High Performance, On-line Backup for Oracle7 Database
December 1995	New Sybase Partner Program Delivers Enhanced Database Backup and Recovery Options
December 1995	Legato Acquires Innovus Technologies, Inc.
January 1996	Legato Announces LegatoCare, a Family of Flexible Worldwide Service and Support Programs
February 1996	Digital Delivers POLYCENTER NetWorker Save and Restore to Macintosh Users
February 1996	Legato Announces NetWorker 4.2 for Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX; Introduces NetWorker StorSuite
February 1996	Legato Announces Apple will Bundle LDBU for UNIX
April 1996	Legato Announces High-Performance Storage Management Interface Between NetWorker and SAP R/3
April 1996	Legato Announces NetWare Storage Management Enhancements to NetWorker 4.0 for NetWare
April 1996	Legato and Octopus Technologies Announce Alliance to Deliver Combined Storage Management
April 1996	Legato Announces Alliance Agreement with Tandem
April 1996	Legato Names Kent Smith Chief Operating Officer
April 1996	Legato Announces Partnership with Surety Technologies
May 1996	Legato and Interlink Computer Sciences, Inc. Announce Joint Development, Marketing, and Customer Support Alliance
May 1996	Legato Announces Two for One Stock Split
June 1996	Legato and MTI Align to Deliver Advance Robotics Library Management for Enterprise
June 1996	Legato Announces Joint Product and Marketing Initiatives with HP
July 1996	Legato Systems Announces High Performance, Online Backup For Informix Databases
September 1996	Legato Systems Names Chief Financial Officer
September 1996	Legato NetWorker to Meet UNIX Storage Management Requirements at Key EDS Facilities
September 1996	Legato's NetWorker for Windows NT Receives The Designed for Microsoft Backoffice Logo
September 1996	Legato Systems Announces NetWorker 4.1 Storage Management to Support IntranetWare™/NetWare 4.11
September 1996	Legato System's Application Interface Certified By SAP Under Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX
September 1996	Legato Announces OEM Source Code License Agreement with Nihon Unisys, Ltd.
October 1996	NetWorker From Legato Backs Up Microsoft's MSN Online Service
October 1996	Legato Announces Major Performance Enhancements with NetWorker 4.2.5 for UNIX
October 1996	Legato Announces NetWorker 4.3 for Microsoft® Windows NT™
October 1996	Legato Announces the Industry's First Java™-Powered Open Storage Management Solution for Enterprise Computing
October 1996	Legato Systems Unveils Power Edition™
October 1996	Legato Systems Unveils New BusinesSuite™ Product Line
November 1996	Legato Systems' NetWorker Supports Ampex DST High Performance Tape Systems
November 1996	Amdahl Licenses Industry Leading Data Asset Management Software from Legato Systems, Inc.
December 1996	Industry's Leading Storage Device Vendors Endorse Legato Systems' GEMS Initiative
December 1996	Siemens Nixdorf Expands Source Code License Agreement With Legato to Include NetWorker For Windows NT
January 1997	John P. Camp, Previous Gartner Group Storage Analyst, Joins Legato Systems As Senior Sales Consultant
January 1997	Legato Systems Expands European Presence With Opening Of Nordic Office
January 1997	Legato, Digital, Oracle, and Storagetek Publish Results of Very Large Database Backup and Restore Benchmarks
January 1997	Sun and Legato Systems Team to Deliver Enhanced Storage Management Solutions
January 1997	Legato Systems Appoints Nora M. Denzel Senior Vice President, Product Operations

Louis C. Cole, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO

Before joining Legato, Mr. Cole was executive vice president responsible for all Novell Inc. operating divisions. Formerly, Mr. Cole was president of CXI Inc., which was acquired by Novell in 1987. Mr. Cole holds a B.S. degree in mathematics and education from Pennsylvania State University at Edinboro.

Kent D. Smith, Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Smith has over twenty years of experience in sales and marketing in the information systems industry. Prior to joining Legato in 1995, he was vice president of Emerging Markets for Verifone, Inc. of Redwood City, CA. He held various positions during his nineteen-year tenure with IBM, including four years as general manager of IBM China, Inc. Mr. Smith holds a B.A. degree from California State University at Fullerton, and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Southern California.

Stephen C. Wise, Chief Financial Officer

Prior to joining Legato Systems, Mr. Wise was senior vice president, finance, of Novell, Inc. He joined Novell in 1989 as vice president and corporate controller when Novell and Excelan merged. Previously, Wise joined Excelan as corporate controller in 1984. He has served as a member of the board of directors for ON Technology Corporation and Da Vinci Systems, manufacturers of workgroup software products. Mr. Wise received a B.S. degree in accounting from San Jose State University and a M.B.A. from the University of Santa Clara.

Nora M. Denzel, Senior Vice President of Product Operations Ms. Denzel has over 12 years of experience in managing product development and marketing in the computer industry. Prior to joining Legato, Ms. Denzel was the Director of Storage Managment Software at IBM's Storage Systems Division. At IBM, she held various management positions all pertaining to enterprise wide storage management software. Ms. Denzel received a B.S. degree in computer science from the State University of New York and a M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.

Legato was founded by four individuals who worked together at Sun Microsystems:

Jon Kepecs, Bob Lyon, Joe Moran and Russell Sandberg.

Louis C. Cole, Chairman of the Board

Before joining Legato, Mr. Cole was executive vice president responsible for all Novell Inc. operating divisions. Formerly, Mr. Cole was president of CXI Inc., which was acquired by Novell in 1987. He holds a B.S. degree in mathematics and education from Pennsylvania State University at Edinboro.

Eric A. Benhamou, Director

Mr. Benhamou has been a director of the Company since March 1993. Mr. Benhamou has been president and CEO of 3Com Corporation, a publicly held computer network products company, since September 1990, and he has been chairman of the board of 3Com since July 1994. From April 1990 until September 1990, Mr. Benhamou served as chief operating officer of 3Com. Mr. Benhamou currently serves as a director of Cypress Semiconductor, a publicly held semiconductor company. Mr. Benhamou holds a Diplome d’Ingenieur from Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Arts et Metiers in Paris, France, and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Phillip E. White, Director

Mr. White joined the Company as a director in May 1995. He is chairman of the board, president and CEO of Informix Corporation, the parent company of Informix Software, Inc. Mr. White joined Informix in January 1989 as CEO and became president later that year. Mr. White was president of Wyse Technology, Inc. from May 1986 to January 1989 and, prior to that, he was vice president of sales and marketing at Altos Computer Systems. In addition, he spent 15 years with IBM in a number of senior-level sales and marketing positions. Mr. White is also on the board of directors for Adaptec and Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc., and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of Illinois Wesleyan University and the advisory board of the Leavey School of Business and Administration at Santa Clara University. He received his B.A. degree in business from Illinois Wesleyan University, and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Kevin A. Fong, Director

Mr. Fong has been a director of the Company since December 1988. Mr. Fong joined Mayfield Fund, a venture capital firm, in 1988 and has been a general partner of several venture capital funds affiliated with Mayfield since 1990. Mr. Fong currently serves as a director of Alantec Corporation, a publicly held internetworking products company, as well as several privately held companies. Mr. Fong holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.S. in electrical engineering and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

David N. Strohm, Director

Mr. Strohm has been a director of the Company since December 1988. Mr. Strohm joined Greylock Management Corporation, a venture capital management company, in 1980 and is a general partner of several venture capital funds affiliated with Greylock. Mr. Strohm currently serves as a director of Banyan, Mentor Graphics Corporation, a publicly held electronic design automation company, and MDL Information Systems, Inc., a supplier of chemical information management software and related products and services, all publicly held, as well as several privately held technology companies. Mr. Strohm holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

Robert V. Gunderson, Jr., Secretary

Mr. Gunderson has been secretary of the Company since September 1988. Mr. Gunderson was a partner of the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger, & Harrison from 1988-1995 and is currently a partner of the law firm of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP. Mr. Gunderson holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago, an M.B.A. degree in finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.