Legato Systems announces a revolutionary approach to protecting data on Macintosh systems; first...

Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:LGTO), a leading provider of client/server-based enterprise storage management software, Monday announced ClientPak for Macintosh, the first network backup product for client/server environments that empowers networked Macintosh users with the option to recover files or directories

"With the introduction of ClientPak for Macintosh, Legato NetWorker now supports all major operating system platforms," said Louis C. Cole, president and chief executive officer of Legato Systems Inc.

"Without a doubt, NetWorker is the most comprehensive network storage management solution for enterprises of all sizes and platform types," added Cole.

ClientPak for Macintosh is the fifth in a series of ClientPak offerings from Legato that allows data resident on networked desktops and workstations to be protected by a NetWorker storage management server. Prior to ClientPak for Macintosh, Legato offered ClientPak for Unix, PC Desktops, NetWare and Windows NT.

Sunil Shah, the Sun systems administrator of the Lockheed Martin Corp., said, "We have NetWorker for SunOS/Solaris, and we need the ability to back up all of our attached Macintosh servers via NetWorker.

"Legato's ClientPak for Macintosh will enable us to protect all of the server data on our network. We look forward to delivering NetWorker's performance to our Macintosh server."

ClientPak for Macintosh is now supported by all NetWorker UNIX servers (Solaris, SunOS, AIX, SCO, and all OEM versions), and Windows NT servers. It will be supported by NetWare in February of 1996.

"Legato has been an innovator and pioneer in network storage management for enterprises since the founding of the company in 1988," said Rob Enderle, an industry analyst at Dataquest in San Jose, Calif.

"The availability of ClientPak for Macintosh, coupled with their NetWorker OEM and shrink-wrap versions of NetWorker, completes Legato's vision of a network storage management solution independent of most operating system environments."

Features and Benefits of ClientPak for Macintosh

Performance: NetWorker's Parallel backup feature allows multiple data servers and other clients to send files to media simultaneously; the parallel restore feature allows multiple files to be recovered from media simultaneously; the Concurrent Device Support feature allows simultaneous backup to and restore from multiple storage devices; and the Media Pools feature allows segregation of Macintosh data and routes them to the fastest media device available.