NTAP--Network Appliance Unveils 'End-to-End' Strategy
Seamless Data Management and Content Delivery are Key to the New Economy and Information Age
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2000--Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTAP - news), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content management solutions, today unveiled its ``end-to-end'' strategy which leverages the company's leadership in storage and caching solutions. The strategy redefines enterprise data infrastructure by bringing powerful new functionality to enterprise and Internet networks, enabling customers to manage, store, and deliver richer content at all points.
As Network Appliance CEO Dan Warmenhoven explained, ``Our strategy is simple: we intend to lead in providing integrated data management and content delivery from the data center to the network edge -- anywhere around the globe. Our product development, marketing, and support reflect this unique value. Customers will benefit from the ability to easily deploy and manage a global network data infrastructure which provides real-time access to critical information that is the enabler of business and commerce.''
The $75 million acquisition of WebManage Technologies, Inc. by Network Appliance (announced earlier today in a separate press release) gives the company the powerful applications it needs to further extend its end-to-end solutions. The products from WebManage leverage existing Network Appliance(TM) storage and caching solutions, and enable Network Appliance customers to improve access to content throughout their networks.
Warmenhoven continued, ``The ability to deliver timely, reliable access to content in various forms -- data, audio, video, multimedia -- has become crucial for business success. Enterprises and service providers are building and managing networks to distribute content intelligently, quickly, and seamlessly throughout their worldwide networks. They realize that global distribution requires a new approach to content delivery and management -- a simple, unified approach based on the integration of highly reliable, highly scalable storage products in the data center; content delivery appliances at the edge; and applications that enable the management of content throughout the network. Our acquisition of WebManage will pair their expertise in content management with our high-performance storage and delivery solutions. This enables our service provider, telco, and enterprise customers to easily develop, deploy and manage seamless and highly scalable content delivery networks (CDNs.) Our approach promises to change the way companies do business, and usher in the next wave of the Internet's evolution.''
Network Appliance's end-to-end strategy and acquisition of WebManage leverage the company's storage networking and content delivery technology in a variety of open industry forums including: Content Alliance announced by Cisco and other industry leaders on August 28, the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (iCAP) Forum, the Direct Access File System (DAFS) Collaborative, and Open Storage Networking (OSN), all of which are designed to make data management and content delivery simple, powerful, and global.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance, Inc., 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(TM) 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®, Windows NT®, 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.
The foregoing statement regarding integration of WebManage contention management technology is a forward looking statement subject to change and results could differ materially from those described in the forward looking statements. Factors that could affect actual results include the ability to successfully integrate the technology into new products, uncertainty as to market acceptance of the technology, and incompatibility with other enabling technologies in the market place. Important factors that may cause actual results to differ are also set forth in the company's periodic filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Note to Editors: NetApp is a registered trademark and Network Appliance, NetCache, and Data ONTAP are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. 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. |
