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To: DownSouth who wrote (4418)	9/18/2000 9:50:11 AM
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Network Appliance F840 Filer Helps Decipher Human Genome SUNNYVALE, Calif.--Sept. 18, 2000--Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTAP - news), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content management solutions, has been selected by the United States National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to help power NCBI's human genome research. NCBI was using a NetApp® F740 solution to store, manage, and access critical research data, and is migrating to the company's newest solution -- the NetApp F840 -- to provide more power and capacity. Storage is a critical component of any research computing, and is especially important in human genetic research, which is data-intensive and requires that massive amounts of data move lightning fast. ``Deciphering the human genome opens up endless new possibilities to improve the human condition,'' said Mark Santora, senior vice president of marketing at Network Appliance(TM). ``We are pleased to be part of this important work, and are confident our F840 solution will be a strategic asset to the NCBI research teams.'' Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information -- all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease. NCBI's sequence database, GenBank, the search and retrieval system, Entrez, and the sequence alignment tool, BLAST, have been singled out as key resources for deciphering the human genome (Scientific American, July 2000). NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, which in turn is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. 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(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. More information is available at www.netapp.com.