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Legato Revamps Integration Strategy: Page 2 of 3

“Our new roadmap addresses these two problems,” Polenski says.

Until now Legato has offered three separate components of management software:

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  • Legato Networker, for information protection, which includes data backup and recovery software
  • Legato Automated Availability Manager for WANs, for monitoring application availability across large geographic distances
  • Automated Availability Manager, for Windows environmentsThese are being combined under a new umbrella system called the Legato GEMS (global enterprise management system) console, which will provide centralized management of the Networker and Automated Availability packages under one system.

    “We were offering best-of-breed components," says Polenski, "but this starts to become less important than the overall way to solve the business problem."

    Using Networker under the GEMS console, which will be the first piece that’s integrated, IT managers will have a single point of control for backing up and restoring data across branch offices. “The aim is to reduce the dependency on having specific people out at branch offices."

    Then Legato plans to integrated its Automated Applications Availability software into the console so that operations managers can rollout applications and have continuous monitoring of these applications from a central datacenter. “This will greatly simplify what is now a very complex procedure."