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e24/7, the Digital Communications Hub, Selects Network Appliance to Help Meet Demand for State-of-the-Art Storage
Santa Monica, CA - August 2, 2000 -- Executives at e24/7, a pioneering new Web site that fuses communications, storage, and streaming to create a digital distribution platform called the Digital Communications Hub™ have selected Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content management solutions, to provide network storage solutions as its corporate data management standard. E24/7 chose Network Appliance™ storage appliances, also known as filers, for their high scalability and reliability and because NetApp® solutions offer superior price/performance for storing and serving large files.
To help deliver its content to a broad user base, e24/7 has deployed multiple-terabyte clustered F760 filers, the most powerful Network Appliance enterprise storage solution. The filers supports thousands of users with more than 3TB of data and scales in performance over demanding workloads. The filers are connected in a clustered failover configuration to provide continuous data availability and access to e24/7 for its vast user base.
e24/7 (www.e247.com) lets users stay connected with people, information, and content wherever they are, whenever they want. The Web-based service has the ability to send and manage large files such as MP3 and digital video. The new site offers free integrated e-mail with the ability to transfer files up to 25MB and provides 100MB of free storage. Also available to e24/7 users are such special features as file sharing, e-mail consolidation of 10 different accounts, and advanced bulk filtering. Poised to keep pace with broadband connectivity, e24/7 will soon offer audio and video management via playlists and streaming capabilities.
"We're pleased to be using Network Appliance storage appliances and to be taking advantage of the company's outstanding expertise in storage networking," said e24/7's Edward C. Yu, chairman and chief executive officer. "Network Appliance's greater scalability and faster data access will help us keep pace with our rapidly growing user base, provide them with the best possible service, and enable the use of broadband technology to its utmost."
e24/7 is a participant in Network Appliance's "Powered by Network Appliance" program, a branding initiative designed to foster business development and enhance the exposure of Internet companies with e-business driven strategies. Network Appliance powers nine out of the top 10 ISPs and 13 out of the top 15 Web sites worldwide.
About e24/7
e24/7 Inc., a privately owned company based in Santa Monica, California was founded in 1999 and is staffed by a team of finance, industry, and Web veterans from Starwood, GeoCities, Earthlink, Linuxcare, Scour.net, Nestlé, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Warner Bros., Mattel, and Intertainer.com. e24/7 has developed proprietary technology that is a fusion of the most used applications for communications and entertainment on the Internet. The technology underlying the e24/7 Digital Communications Hub is an e-mail-centric, integrated communications, storage and streaming application. For more information about the company and its products, please visit www.e247.com.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, Inc., 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™ 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™ operating system and standards-compliant hardware. |
