Network Appliance Delivers High Availability NT Solution for GTE Internetworking Web Hosting Service
Business Wire - January 04, 1999 11:44
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 1999--Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTAP) today announced that GTE Internetworking has completed the initial installation of NetApp's network server and data storage appliance "filer" solution in its Web hosting data center.
Since deployment at GTE Internetworking, NetApp's solutions are delivering 200% improvement in Internet server availability and between 10-20% faster access to GTE's personalized news, mail and personal Web services.
"GTE Internetworking chose Network Appliance because we required a flexible, high-performance, enterprise-scale Windows NT-based storage solution with sure availability, broad scalability and multi-platform support options for future needs," said Robert Zinnel, Principal Member, Technical Staff at GTE Internetworking.
"The quota software utility allows us to manage user allocations to the megabyte, and sell additional increments of disk space as our customers' applications grow."
"NetApp understands the importance of high availability systems in the online services business -- every second counts," said Charlie Simmons, NetApp's vice president of marketing. "GTE Internetworking is a leader in providing users with stellar online service performance, and NetApp filers can help GTE continue to enhance its customers' online experience and grow its Web hosting business."
NetApp Filers Support GTE Internetworking's Explosive Growth
GTE Internetworking's GTE.net line of business provides consumers and small businesses nationwide with an online service that includes an email account, news service, and two Megabytes of personal Web space. GTE.net services over 700,000 active customer accounts, adding approximately 4,000 new accounts weekly. NetApp filers are used to store all users' Web pages and allow multiple Windows NT servers to access the same data, thereby enabling the highly scalable architecture required in such a high growth environment.
Today, GTE's Web-hosting service is running on eight NT 4.0 servers with Internet Information Server (IIS) running behind redundant nodes of a load-balancing system, in addition to two FTP (file transfer protocol) servers.
"Customers like GTE Internetworking want to deploy highly scalable Web hosting solutions built on Windows NT Server 4.0 with Internet Information Server," commented Mike Nash, director of marketing for Windows NT Server at Microsoft. "Network Appliance's Networking Software for Windows filers, along with Windows NT Server, enables reliable and scalable solutions for ISPs at a cost considerably lower than other products."
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