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To: HDC who wrote (1547)	11/2/1999 11:44:00 AM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10934

i can't imagine this had much effect on today's burst from the open, but it certainly didn't hurt. ----- SDRC Names Network Appliance Best for Ease of Management in Shared UNIX/NT Environments November 2, 1999 11:06 AM SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1999--Network Appliance, Inc. (NTAP), today announced SDRC (SDRC), a leading global supplier of enterprise product development solutions, has named Network Appliance(TM) F700 series filers the simplest to use connectivity solution for shared UNIX/NT computing. Today's announcement follows extensive product testing of many different heterogeneous storage solutions. SDRC conducted tests in four heterogeneous environments to simulate its customers' needs and determined the Network Appliance filer provided exceptional ease of configuration and overall value. The Network Appliance solution enables design teams working in diverse computing environments to share information easily and reliably. "After evaluating each system, it was clearly evident that Network Appliance could offer our customers the simplest solution for data access and information sharing in a heterogeneous computing environment," said Bill Carrelli, vice president, corporate marketing, SDRC. "Used in conjunction with SDRC's world-class software, Network Appliance filers represent an ideal solution for mechanical design enterprises." With this announcement, Network Appliance furthers its reputation as one of the preeminent suppliers of storage solutions to the CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM markets. As high volumes of data increase storage needs exponentially, and CAD environments become diverse over multiple platforms, Network Appliance solutions are especially valuable to the mechanical design automation software market served by SDRC's products and services. "We are proud to have earned this distinction and see it as confirmation that our F700 filers represent the most powerful network file server family available," said Larry Kubo, vice president of Network Appliance. "SDRC's manufacturing customers have people working in a variety of computer-intensive environments and they require easy information exchange. As SDRC's testing concluded, these enterprises can benefit from using Network Appliance filers to access -- quickly and reliably -- the tremendous volumes of data generated by product design, development and manufacturing." Network Appliance has been a member of SDRC's I-DEAS Solutions Network(SM) since April 1998, when its file server appliances became the first network-attached data servers to qualify for the SDRC program. Network Appliance filers give users fast, reliable data access and dramatically improved application performance. The F700 series scale to meet the multi-terabyte storage and user needs of every size of organization -- from workgroup to the enterprise, and from data-intensive Windows(R) and UNIX(R) environments to heavy traffic Internet and intranet applications. With their ability to store and share data simultaneously among Windows and UNIX users, Network Appliance filers are one of the best solutions in the industry for true consolidation of multiprotocol data in large, heterogeneous multi-terabyte environments. About SDRC SDRC (Structural Dynamics Research Corp.) is one of the world's leading providers of enterprise product development solutions with its suite of mechanical design automation software and product data management software. The Company's products, coupled with engineering and consulting services, help manufacturers optimize product development early in the design process, enabling them to reduce cost and cycle time while significantly improving quality and time to market. SDRC provides the award-winning I-DEAS(R) product suite of integrated CAD/CAM/CAE software, and the market-leading PDM software, Metaphase Enterprise, which is developed, marketed and supported by SDRC's Metaphase(R) Technology(TM) Division. SDRC employs more than 2,500 people worldwide, with 77 offices in 18 countries throughout North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. sdrc.com