Legato Storage Management Solutions

Protecting, managing, and controling 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 distributed, client/server environments composed of multiple and heterogeneous desktops, servers, databases, and applications.


Entry-Level, Server-Only Backup

The Legato Data Backup Utility (LDBU) provides easy-to-use, feature-rich data protection for standalone servers. LDBU is currently available for HP 9000, NetWare, RS/6000, SPARC, and Windows NT systems, and offers a superior alternative to traditional backup utilities. The Legato Data Backup Utility is available from participating Legato Authorized Resellers and storage device partners, and as a complimentary giveaway at Legato tradeshows and other informational venues.

Enterprise Storage Management

Heterogeneous, Network Backup

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Legato NetWorker® is the first high-performance, enterprise storage management application for the following key networking environments -- NetWare, Windows NT, multiple UNIX operating systems, and a mixture of them all.

NetWorker is designed to support today's large, complex, distributed computing environments. When a customer purchases NetWorker, they have purchased a scalable storage management server that can be configured for network backup, recovery, archival, and file migration services for all data and applications stored across the enterprise. NetWorker is scalable for any size network. Server operating systems supported by NetWorker include Microsoft Windows NT, Novell NetWare/IntranetWare, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, SCO UNIX, and those from Legato OEMs.

Database and Application Backup

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The NetWorker® BusinesSuite™ product line delivers a comprehensive set of NetWorker options to provide specialized data protection for mission-critical databases and applications. This new product line is focused on the needs of database administrators and IT managers that require high-performance, online data protection for databases and other critical applications that must be available to users on a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week basis.

The combination of BusinesSuite and NetWorker provides a network-wide storage management software solution that delivers a rich set of advanced features to support enterprise applications, such as autochanger support, automated media labeling and tracking, and media cloning for local and off-site storage strategies, as well as support for state-of-the-art high-speed devices and mainframe-class tape silos. NetWorker, in concert with BusinesSuite, is the only comprehensive storage management solution that addresses the need for cross-platform support of enterprise applications running on Microsoft Windows NT and UNIX.

Performance Optimized Backup

NetWorker® Power Edition™ is a new high-performance product line focused on protecting complex enterprise applications that range in size from several hundred gigabytes to multi-terabytes. Power Edition is the first product line dedicated to the specialized storage management requirements of very large database (VLDB) and large filesystem applications.

Power Edition is a specialized adaptation of Legato technology that dramatically improves backup/restore performance on a local data server, relative to the standard NetWorker product which is optimized for network-wide performance involving potentially hundreds of clients across multiple types of platforms. The Power Edition software includes a consultancy offering to guide customers in the optimal selection of hardware, software, and policies to achieve their performance and budget objectives. With Power Edition, Legato combines its enterprise-strength NetWorker technology and storage management expertise to deliver high performance solutions that can be optimized for each hardware platform and customer application.

Global Management and Control

Tutorial Legato GEMS is a Java-powered, open software product for Global Enterprise Management of Storage that provides enterprise-wide command and control for distributed storage. This revolutionary approach for centrally managing distributed storage allows IS personnel to cohesively administer and control disparate storage management environments across an entire organization. GEMS is a comprehensive solution that leverages the efficiency and performance of Legatos flagship product, NetWorker, and is an open architecture. GEMS Version 1.0 Functionality

The initial version of GEMS (Release 1.0) is focused on solving the three most important storage management issues confronting large enterprises:

  1. A consistent policy-oriented approach to storage management: GEMS includes the industry's first open policy manager that allows organizations to automate and deploy standard operating procedures for storage management.
  2. A unified approach to managing media generated by different storage management applications: GEMS includes an application and location independent media manager that facilitates sharing of storage hardware (tape drives, autoloaders, optical jukeboxes) across disparate storage management applications.
  3. A consistent approach to licensing and distributing storage management software to the appropriate storage nodes: GEMS includes an integrated module which will distribute and license both storage management software for new installations, and software updates and upgrades.


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