Digital Island Announces EBSCO Publishing as Customer, Ensuring Reliable Access to Crucial Data for Researchers
Business Wire - July 26, 1999 08:23
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 1999--
Major Electronic Publisher Uses Digital Island's
Intelligent Network to Extend Global Reach and
Improve Data Delivery to Europe and Asia
Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD), a leading provider of network services for globalizing
e-Business applications, announced today EBSCO Publishing as a customer, aimed at the
deployment of research to corporations, libraries and universities worldwide.
Because Digital Island's Intelligent Network is specifically designed to distribute content via the
most direct global route, researchers accessing EBSCO Publishing's databases can quickly
download critical data, regardless of time of day or geography. Prior to using Digital Island's
GlobePort service, EBSCO Publishing's European and Asian customers had been suffering
frustrating timeouts and "server not found" notifications, due to the public Internet's indirect routing
of traffic which typically causes packet loss and slow download times.
"Sluggish online response times are no longer acceptable to our subscribers who need to continually
access very large amounts of data quickly and consistently," said Mike Gorrell, chief information
officer at EBSCO Publishing. "Working with Digital Island has allowed us to offer a consistent,
reliable service into regions that are practically impenetrable by the Internet."
"E-publishers are grappling with the many challenges related to the global distribution of complex
data," said Ruann F. Ernst, president and CEO of Digital Island. "By using Digital Island's Intelligent
Network, EBSCO Publishing can revolutionize content distribution in markets that are starved of
high-performance data delivery services."
EBSCO Publishing (http://www.epnet.com) produces electronic databases for libraries, schools,
corporations and consumers worldwide. The company's databases are available via the Internet
using EBSCOhost, a proprietary service operated from EBSCO's headquarters in Ipswich, Mass.
The company's database of article abstracts comprises over 4,000 of the world's leading
periodicals.
Digital Island(R) is a leading provider of network services for globalizing e-Business applications.
Digital Island serves companies that need to securely and consistently extend business-critical
applications for marketing, selling, servicing, or distributing products via the Internet. Digital Island's
service includes global content distribution and hosting, the localization of end-user online
experiences, and a reliable global Intelligent Network, all of which are designed to deliver the right
content, to the right customer, in the right market, at the right time. The Company has regional data
centers in New York, Santa Clara, Honolulu and London, connecting directly into 19 countries with
Local Content Managers in nine markets worldwide to provide the ubiquity and reach of the public
Internet with the quality and functionality normally available only in a corporate wide-area network.
Important Notice
Digital Island is a registered trademark of Digital Island, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of
their respective owners.
This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Important
factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking
statements, include but are not limited to: the company's short operating history which makes it
difficult to predict its future results of operations; the company's history of operating losses and
expected future losses which could impede its ability to address the risks and difficulties
encountered by companies in new and rapidly evolving markets; the company's future operating
results could fluctuate which may cause volatility or a decline in the price of the company's stock;
the company may not be able to price its services above the overall cost of bandwidth causing its
financial results to suffer; and other factors detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission including its recent filing on Form S-1.
CONTACT: Digital Island
Aine Muldoon, 415/228-4168
amuldoon@digitalisland.net
or
Tom Thompson, 415/228-4102 (investor relations)
tomt@digitalisland.net |
