Another nice release. Digital Island Deploys WebSpective Content Distribution for Enhanced Global Hosting
PR Newswire - July 07, 1999 11:16
WebSpective Solution Enables Advanced Services for Industry-Leading Provider of Application
Hosting And Global Content Distribution
NEEDHAM, Mass., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- WebSpective Software, Inc., the leading provider of
content distribution and provisioning software for the timely, consistent delivery of Web content and
applications today announced that Digital Island (Nasdaq: ISLD) has selected WebSpective's(TM)
Content Distribution 3.0 to reliably deploy content across its worldwide network. Digital Island, a
leading provider of network services for globalizing e- business applications, is using WebSpective's
solution to consistently and reliably push customer content to its Local Content Managers, an
advanced network architecture comprising web server, mirror and caching technologies.
WebSpective's Content Distribution 3.0 enables Digital Island to rapidly implement a solution that
efficiently distributes content to the edges of their global network, in order to improve overall site
performance for optimal end-user experience. The new support will ensure Digital Island's customers
consistently receive updated content quickly, while realizing savings of up to 30 percent in traditional
international line costs. Both companies are at the forefront of a rapidly expanding industry; Forrester
Research estimates the Web-hosting market will explode from $900 million in 1998 to $10 billion by
2002.
"Thanks to our collaborative relationship with industry innovators like WebSpective, Digital Island is
proving technological leadership in the global e-business arena," said Allan Leinwand, Digital Island's
vice president of engineering and chief technology officer. "We continue to evolve our architecture with
the expressed goal of creating a powerful competitive advantage for our multinational customers.
Digital Island was founded on the vision of a global economy, and we will keep to that vision by
working with WebSpective to make our network architecture the most flexible and scalable available."
With multinational customers such as E*Trade, Cisco, and National Semiconductor, Digital Island
must ensure that site information and updates are consistently delivered, while reducing latency and
bandwidth costs. By mirroring content and entire applications through a flexible and scalable
architecture, WebSpective Content Distribution streamlines Digital Island''s global operations and
enables the hosting company to offer value added services, including the delivery of high-bandwidth
content to multiple markets. Currently WebSpective Content Distribution 3.0 has been integrated with
Digital Island Local Content Managers in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Australia, and Japan, with
expansion plans for France, Sweden, Singapore, China, and Brazil.
"At WebSpective, we are committed to providing the most scalable, reliable content distribution
solutions that help Web hosters and other service providers broaden the scope of value-added
services they can offer their customers," said Glenn D. House Sr., president and CEO of WebSpective
Software. "We are very proud to have been chosen by Digital Island to support their global e-business
services, and we look forward to helping them maintain their technology leadership position in this
arena."
About Digital Island
Digital Island(R) is a leading provider of network services for globalizing e-business applications,
serving companies that operate in multiple countries and 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 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 (
digitalisland.net ) 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.
About WebSpective
WebSpective Software is the leading provider of content distribution and provisioning software,
enabling online businesses, Internet Service Providers and Web hosters to guarantee the timely and
consistent delivery of content and applications across the Internet. WebSpective's self-titled flagship
product helps leading Web businesses and service providers deliver any type of content to any location
across their global network, while improving user experience and customer satisfaction, reducing costs
in bandwidth and administration, and increasing scalability and control. Headquartered in Needham,
Mass., WebSpective has offices in San Francisco, New York, and Chicago. The company was
founded in 1997 and is privately held. Funding is provided by Bessemer Venture Partners, Charles
River Ventures, Cisco Systems, Inc. and Morgenthaler Ventures. More information about
WebSpective can be found at www.webspective.com.
SOURCE WebSpective Software, Inc.
/CONTACT: Megan McDonald of WebSpective Software, Inc., 781-292-4050,
megan@webspective.com, or Nicole Trincia, 617-520-7101,
ntrincia@webergroup.com, or Jennifer Karkar, 617-520-7240,
jkarkar@webergroup.com, both of The Weber Group/
/Web site: digitalisland.net
/Web site: http;//www.webspective.com/
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