Digital Island Named Most Innovative Service Provider of the Year in Network Computing 2000 Well-Connected Awards
BUSINESS WIRE - May 10, 2000 07:17
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Digital Island also Named Most Innovative Enterprise Internet
Service Provider in Operating Systems and Network Services Category
Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD), a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network, has been named Most Innovative Service Provider of the Year by CMP Media, Inc. Network Computing at the 2000 Well-Connected Awards.
Digital Island also won the Most Innovative Enterprise Internet Service Provider award in the Operating Systems and Network Services category. Digital Island topped both categories in recognition of its unique ability to provide a fast, guaranteed, relevant end-user experience with its Global e-Business Delivery Network. Digital Island provides an integrated suite of hosting, content delivery, network and application services to customers and partners worldwide.
"Digital Island appreciates the significance of these two awards as a testament to our proven ability to guarantee a fast, relevant experience for e-Business users in the real world of 24x7 global networking," said Ruann F. Ernst, chairman and CEO of Digital Island. "Digital Island's flawless performance in a wide range of business-critical situations continues to give our customers a competitive advantage worldwide."
"The Well-Connected Awards are significantly different from other IT publications' awards," said Fritz Nelson, publisher of CMP's Network Computing. "Our editors worked at length to research and test the best offerings in the enterprise arena." According to Nelson, the products singled out in the Network Computing Well-Connected Awards are unique because "they are not a measure of popularity -- they are quality offerings tested over a network enterprise firsthand by editors themselves. So we know that Digital Island's Global e-Business Delivery Network is truly an innovative solution."
The winners of the Network Computing Well-Connected Awards were announced at a gala event on Monday, May 8 held at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, NV during the NetWorld+Interop 2000 trade show. All winners are highlighted in the May 15th issue of Network Computing and also on Network Computing Online at www.networkcomputing.com.
Network Computing (http://www.networkcomputing.com), published by CMP Media, Manhasset, NY is the only IT publication providing in-depth, comprehensive product, technology and service reviews from a real-world perspective to 220,000 IT professionals -- The Technology Experts -- biweekly telling them what works, how it works, when to buy and who to buy it from. In addition, Network Computing consistently has the largest average-issue audience among all networking publications, according to Simmons and IntelliQuest and was a 1999 Neal Award finalist.
CMP Media, Inc. (http://www.cmp.com), a subsidiary of United News & Media plc (Nasdaq:UNEWY), is the leading high-tech media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum -- the builders, sellers, and users of technology worldwide. With its portfolio of newspapers, magazines, custom publishing, Internet products, research, consulting and conferences, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive, integrated solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Online editions of the company's print publications, along with products and services created exclusively for the Internet, can be found on CMPnet at cmpnet.com.
Digital Island(R) is a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate content delivery, hosting and intelligent networking to give the ultimate consumer a superior experience. Strategically located Data Centers in the United States, Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 24 countries. In addition, Digital Island operates a network of more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets. This network is expected to grow to more than 6,000 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco. www.digitalisland.net. |
