Network Appliance and Sendmail Announce Scalable, High-performance, Integrated Internet E-mail Solution
Companies to Combine Technology to Create a Highly Scalable Mail Hosting Solution
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2000-- Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTAP - news), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content management solutions, and Sendmail, Inc., provider of the Sendmail© Internet Mail platform, today announced they are offering a combined Internet mail solution.
The new solution will leverage the industry-leading Network Appliance(TM) storage appliances and Sendmail's industry-leading application software, creating a highly scalable and reliable e-mail solution.
Network Appliance and Sendmail will cooperate in marketing and supporting the integrated mail solution to potential customers, including Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Application Service Providers (ASPs) that manage millions of mail accounts and need solutions that offer the greatest possible throughput and maximum scalability and availability.
``Network Appliance and Sendmail have mutual customers supporting millions of mailboxes, and many have expressed strong interest in this integrated solution,'' said Mark Santora, senior vice president of marketing at Network Appliance. ``We're excited to collaborate with Sendmail on this solution that takes advantage of a significant market opportunity.''
``Sendmail is actively partnering with technology leaders such as Network Appliance to develop e-business applications that facilitate transactions and customer interaction via e-mail,'' said Jon Haass, vice president of business development at Sendmail, Inc. ``This integrated solution combines leading-edge technology from both partners to create a highly scalable product for the Internet mail hosting market.''
Network Appliance is already the leading provider of network-attached storage appliances. NetApp© filers currently host approximately 125 million e-mail subscribers and mailboxes worldwide. ``E-mail usage is booming, with the number of e-mail mailboxes expected to jump from 385 million in 2000 to 750 million in 2005 worldwide. The replacement of paper with e-mail for billing and account statement distribution, order processing, and direct marketing over the next several years will make having an e-mail mailbox as critical to our daily lives as a postal mailbox,'' said Mark Levitt, research director, IDC.
Much of the estimated US$400 billion spent today on paper-based bill distribution and payment, order processing, account statements, and direct marketing is projected to migrate to Internet mail platforms by 2002.
About Sendmail, Inc.
Based in Emeryville, Calif., privately held Sendmail, Inc. delivers the ubiquitous Sendmail Internet Mail platform for e-communications, applications, and services. Sendmail, Inc. collaborates with its commercial customers, partners, and the open source community to advance the Internet Mail platform powering the majority of mail servers on the Internet today. For additional information on Sendmail, Inc., please visit its Web site at www.sendmail.com.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, a veteran in network file serving and caching, has been providing data access solutions since 1992, and is a member of both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 index. Major corporations and ISPs, including Lycos, Yahoo!, Citicorp Securities, Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco, Motorola, and Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp solutions. NetApp Internet caching solutions (NetCache(TM) appliances) and file servers (filers) deliver fast, simple, reliable, and cost-effective access to network-stored data and enable simultaneous shared file services for UNIX©, Windows NT© and the World Wide Web.
The company pioneered the concept of the ``network appliance,'' an extension of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that perform a single function. Network Appliance filers and NetCache appliances are based on the company's innovative data access software known as the Data ONTAP(TM) operating system and standards-compliant hardware. More information is available at www |
