Monday November 8, 8:14 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Digital Island Announces Strategic Advisory Council of
Industry Luminaries
Experts on e-Business, Security and Networking Will Advise Digital Island on Trends and Solutions for Global e-Network Services
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 1999-- Digital Island, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISLD - news), a leading provider of network services for globalizing e-Business applications, announced today the formation of a Strategic Advisory Council of industry luminaries to advise the company on trends and solutions for global e-Network services.
The members of Digital Island's Strategic Advisory Council are:
- Debra Chrapaty, Chief Media Officer, E*TRADE Group
- Raman Khanna, Chief Information Officer, Stanford University
Dr. Rob Kolstad, Program Manager, SANS Institute, the leading professional organization for systems administration, networking and security
- Don Listwin, Executive Vice President, Cisco Systems, Inc.
- William Maggs, Chief Network Officer, Inktomi Corp.
- Paul Saffo, Futurist, Director, Institute of the Future
''The members of our Strategic Advisory Council have collectively been instrumental in making the Internet a powerful platform for global e-Business,'' said Ruann F. Ernst, president and CEO of Digital Island. ''They are the leaders and thinkers driving new developments in our industry. Digital Island can now benefit from the business and technical experience, vision and hands-on know-how that are represented by our new council members, and we truly appreciate their support.''
Ms. Chrapaty invented the technology solutions used by E*TRADE. Prior to joining E*TRADE, she served as Chief Information Officer and Chief Technical Officer of the National Basketball Association. Ms. Chrapaty has also served as Director, Internal Systems Consulting, at Bertelsmann C.I.S., and with EMI Records Group. Her previous experience with financial organizations includes the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Chase Econometric/IDC.
Raman Khanna is Chief Information Officer at Stanford University. In his current role, he is responsible for providing computing and communication services for more than 30,000 users. Mr. Khanna is a nationally recognized authority on data communications, distributed computing and enterprise management systems. He is the contributing editor of four technical books on data communications and client/sever computing, and lectures and consults extensively. Mr. Khanna also serves on the advisory board of Sun Microsystems, Dell Computers and other high-tech companies.
Dr. Rob Kolstad was President of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. for half a decade before joining the SANS Institute, where he now serves as Program Manager. Prior to Berkeley Software Design, he was a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems' Rocky Mountain Technology Center where he led the development of Sun's Backup Copilot product. Dr. Kolstad is a former secretary of the USENIX Board of Directors and founded the USENIX LISA conference series. He has served as conference chair and a keynote speaker around the world. Dr. Kolstad coaches the USA Computing Olympiad programming team.
Don Listwin is Executive Vice President of Cisco Systems. He is responsible for Cisco's New World business strategy and leads the Service Provider and Consumer Lines of Business as well as Corporate Marketing and the Applications Technology Group. In developing Cisco's New World Internet business strategy, Mr. Listwin created the concept of the Internet ecosystem, a new business model for defining success in the Internet Economy.
William Maggs is Chief Network Officer at Inktomi, where he serves as CTO of the Network Products business unit. He develops strategy and technological direction for Inktomi's array of network infrastructure software, including Traffic Server.
Previously he was a senior engineer and architect in the Internet Engineering division of MCI, helping to build MCI's commercial and next-generation IP networks and the services that run on them.
Paul Saffo is Director and Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute of the Future, a 30-year-old foundation that provides strategic planning and forecasting services to major corporations and government agencies. He is a technology forecaster, studying long-term information-technology trends and their impact on business and society. His essays have appeared in The Harvard Business Review, Wired Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Fortune Magazine and others. Mr. Saffo also serves on the AT&T Technology Advisory Board, The World Economic Forum Global Issues Group, and the Stanford Law School Advisory Council on Science, Technology and Society.
Digital Island® is a leading provider of network services for globalizing e-Business applications. Digital Island serves companies
that need to securely and consistently extend business-critical applications for marketing, selling, supporting, or distributing products via the Internet. Digital Island's e-Network Services include global content distribution and hosting services,
localization of the end user online experience 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, London, and Hong Kong, connecting directly into 21 countries with Local Content Managers in 13 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. www.digitalisland.net
Important Notice
Digital Island is a registered trademark of Digital Island, Inc. TraceWare is a 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.
NOTE TO EDITORS: In the company name noted in this news release, there is an ''asterisk'' symbol between E and TRADE. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems.
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