Important PR today :-) Digital Island Announces New, Larger Corporate Headquarters in San Francisco; Relocation Will Accommodate Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Technical Operations Center
Business Wire - July 09, 1999 08:45
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 1999--Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD), a
leading provider of network services for globalizing e-Business applications, announced today new,
expanded corporate headquarters in San Francisco.
The new headquarters will facilitate additional human resources for the company's engineering,
marketing, and sales and an expanded technical operations center to support the company's global
intelligent network.
"Our employees have always been Digital Island's most valuable resource," said Ruann F. Ernst,
president and CEO of Digital Island. "These new corporate offices have been designed to
accommodate growth and increase our efficiency, so that we can continue to deliver network services
to our customers who need to extend their e-Business initiatives worldwide."
Digital Island's new headquarters, to be occupied on July 12, is located at 45 Fremont Street, Suite
1200, San Francisco, CA 94105. The phone number is 415/228-4100 and fax number is
415/228-4141. The email address is info@digitalisland.net.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Digital Island has sales offices in Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago,
Detroit, Hong Kong, Houston, Kuala Lumpur, Los Angeles, Madrid, Minneapolis, New York City,
Phoenix, and Tokyo, with a European headquarters in Geneva.
Digital Island(R) is a leading provider of network services for globalizing e-Business applications.
Digital Island serves 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 global 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 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.
Note to Editors: Important Notice -- Digital Island is a registered trademark of Digital Island, Inc. All
other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Important
factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking
statements, include but are not limited to: the company's short operating history which makes it difficult
to predict its future results of operations; the company's history of operating losses and expected future
losses which could impede its ability to address the risks and difficulties encountered by companies in
new and rapidly evolving markets; the company's future operating results could fluctuate which may
cause volatility or a decline in the price of the company's stock; the company may not be able to price
its services above the overall cost of bandwidth causing its financial results to suffer; and other factors
detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its recent filing
on Form S-1.
CONTACT: Digital Island
Aine Muldoon, 415/228-4168
amuldoon@digitalisland.net
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