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LEGATO Partners With FaceTime to Deliver Enterprise-Class Instant Messaging Management Solution

FaceTime IMAuditor Enterprise Integrated With LEGATO EmailXtender For Management of Electronic Communications

FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 12 -- Furthering its established leadership as the premier provider of enterprise software solutions that enable customers to safely deploy and centrally manage real-time business communications, FaceTime Communications today announced they are working with LEGATO Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: LGTO) to deliver comprehensive solutions that provide centralized management control over all business communications conveyed electronically in the enterprise.

As part of the agreement, LEGATO and FaceTime have integrated FaceTime's IMAuditor Enterprise with LEGATO's EmailXtender suite to deliver a behind-the-firewall solution for customers recognizing the need for proper policy management control over instant messaging (IM) and email communications across the enterprise.

The combined offering mitigates the information security risks of email and instant messaging by extending to these business-critical communication platforms complete, centralized management, control, logging and archiving capabilities. To accommodate legitimate use of IM for business, FaceTime provides IT organizations with a single control point from which to manage all IM user policy standards. Together, FaceTime and LEGATO enable customers to benefit from the freer flow of and instant access to critical business intelligence.

"We are excited to work with FaceTime, a market leader in delivering enterprise software solutions that enable Global 2000 organizations to manage and control instant messaging," said Greg Clock, vice president, Email Business Unit, LEGATO Systems. "The integration of our EmailXtender messaging product with FaceTime's IMAuditor Enterprise provides our customers with a complete, proven solution that addresses critical messaging management needs."

"FaceTime has attained its leadership position by partnering with premier IM network and IT infrastructure solution providers to provide customers with the ability to embrace instant messaging while mitigating the information security risks associated with its use," said Glen D. Vondrick, FaceTime's President and CEO. "We are very pleased to be working with technology leader LEGATO Systems and their channel partners to satisfy strong customer demand for the centralized archival and storage of all communication conveyed electronically within and beyond enterprise walls."

IMAuditor Enterprise is a software server solution installed behind enterprise firewalls to support IM services from the world's leading IM network providers, including AOL, Microsoft, IBM Lotus, Yahoo!, Reuters, and Communicator Inc. IMAuditor Enterprise, combined with the recently announced AOL AIM Enterprise Gateway product, provides users with the only authorized gateway to the world's largest IM network for a powerful, complementary solution for managing multiple IM networks used in the enterprise.

About FaceTime Communications
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of instant messaging, Web usage and Unified Communications platforms. Ranked number one by IDC for four consecutive years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by more than 900 customers – including nine of the 10 largest U.S. banks – for security, management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships with all leading public and enterprise IM network providers, including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Skype, IBM, Reuters and Jabber.

FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-FACE. The FaceForward blog, at http://blog.facetime.com, offers thoughts and opinions about the changing nature of Internet communications.

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Emily Chamberlin
650-762-2945
echamberlin@ar-edelman.com

 
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