BTopenworld Selects Network Appliance to Power Its Broadband, Streaming Media,
and ASP Services
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 22, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Unique Ability to Provide End-to-End Solution with Both Content
Management and Content Delivery Key BT Deciding Factor
Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), the leading provider of network-attached
data access and content management solutions, has been selected by British
Telecommunications's (BT) new business BTopenworld as its technology partner for
storage and caching appliances. BT announced the creation of BTopenworld on
April 13, and the new company is focused on proliferating new broadband
applications such as streaming media, digital marketplaces, and ASP (application
service provider) services to European and global customers and to strengthening
BTopenworld's Internet services presence.
Because broadband and other Internet services rely on moving and managing huge
amounts of data and multimedia-rich content, Network Appliance(tm) caching and
storage appliances are a natural fit, capable of providing high content and data
availability (critical in a nonstop computing environment), high performance,
ease of installation and maintenance, and tremendous scalability. All these
features allow BTopenworld to focus on building its business assertively, with
no worries about uptime, bandwidth, or performance.
Additionally, Network Appliance was the only company able to provide BT an
end-to-end solution for content management with NetApp(R) filers and content
delivery with NetCache(tm) appliances. This makes customer deployment even
easier, and offers BTopenworld one vendor for a total content management and
delivery solution.
Network Appliance products already power nine of the world's top 10 ISPs
(Internet Service Providers) and nine of the world's top 10 most-visited Web
sites. Being selected by BTopenworld affirms Network Appliance's leadership in
Internet computing.
"BTopenworld is poised to become one of the most important global companies
providing broadband and Internet services and enjoys a customer base of millions
throughout Europe," said Mark Santora, senior vice president of marketing at
Network Appliance. "Network Appliance caching and storage appliances allow
BTopenworld to ensure high data availability, deploy a variety of new services
quickly, and ramp their capacity and bandwidth as needed."
"We evaluated several vendors for content management and delivery, and selecting
Network Appliance was an easy decision," said Mike Galvin, general manager,
operations at BTopenworld. "Network Appliance products are known for high
availability, ease of use, scalability, and high performance. Our customers want
exciting new broadband services and nonstop Internet access around the clock.
Network Appliance allows us to deliver on both needs."
About BTopenworld
BTopenworld will bring together in a single business all BT's existing Internet
service providers (ISPs) and portals and Open, BT's digital interactive
television joint venture. It will also include BT's international wholly-owned
ISPs such as Infinito (Italy), Arrakis (Spain), and Ocean free (Ireland) as well
as BT's interests in the ISPs of its joint ventures across the world.
BTopenworld will also be responsible for Genie, Europe's leading mobile portal
and service provider which currently has more than 700,000 customers. Genie was
the first mobile ISP to be introduced in Europe, first to introduce a commercial
WAP service and is also being rolled out in a number of BT's in-country
operations including Telfort in the Netherlands. BTopenworld already has 2.5
million equity customers, making it the third largest European ISP.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, 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(R), Windows NT(R), 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(tm) operating
system and standards-compliant hardware. More information is available at
www.netapp.com.
NetApp and the Network Appliance logo are registered trademarks and Network
Appliance, NetCache, and Data ONTAP are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc.
Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the
U.S and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other
countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. All other brands
or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders
and should be treated as such.
CONTACT: Network Appliance, Inc.
Eric Brown, 408/822-3463
ebrown@netapp.com
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