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ONO Selects Caching Solutions From Network Appliance to Power Its
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ONO Selects Caching Solutions From Network Appliance to Power Its Expanding Service Offerings SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2000--Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTAP), a leading provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, today announced that ONO, one of Spain's leading broadband service providers, has selected Network Appliance caching solutions for its network. ONO offers integrated telecommunications, television, and broadband Internet services to a potential market of millions of residential customers and businesses. ONO will use Network Appliance(TM) NetCache(TM) C760 and C720 solutions for the caching of news over the Web and other broadband services designed to bring rich content to users throughout Spain, primarily in enterprises where content and information are vital to business success. ONO licenses its services in 9 Spanish provinces and selected Network Appliance NetCache solutions to scale existing bandwidth and eliminate the need for additional infrastructure. NetCache solutions will enable ONO to distribute frequently viewed content closer to its users, reducing network traffic and improving overall performance and response times. ONO's selection of Network Appliance coincides with ONO's broadband communication services expansion announced by ONO on July 12, 2000. As Carlos Morenos, director of operations and technology at ONOLAB (the ONO unit responsible for Internet matters), said, "We are rapidly expanding our infrastructure and soon we will offer bandwidth content services for any Internet user. Network Appliance products enable us to scale our infrastructure and offer the best content distribution and access to our customers. As pioneers in this technology, we seek out technology partners who offer solid products and strong global service. Network Appliance meets these requirements." "ONO is deploying the most advanced communications technology and equipment available and winning business customers throughout Spain as a result," said Amit Pandey, senior marketing director for Network Appliance. "Network Appliance NetCache solutions are integral to ONO's communications architecture and allow ONO to provide businesses with a fast and safe content distribution system capable of transmitting enormous amounts of information with very high quality." About ONO ONO (www.ono.es) is one of the leading providers of integrated telecommunications, television, and broadband Internet services in Spain, with a focus on the business market. ONO has a potential market of four million consumers and 500,000 businesses in different regions including Valencia, Alicante, Castellon, Murcia, Albacete, Huelva, Cadiz, Mallorca and Cantabria. ONO also has business broadband services in other areas of Spain through ONO Empresas (ONO Business). ONOLAB offers broadband Internet access and will have its own content to (PARTIR) in November. ONO investors are BSCH, Grupo Ferrovial, Multitel Cable, GE Capital, Bank of America, and Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec. ONO was formed by Callahan Associates International. These materials are not an offer of securities for sale in the United States. Securities may not be offered or sold into the United States absent registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 or an exemption therefrom. 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(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. 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 and Windows NT are registered trademarks 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. --30--nj/sf* CONTACT: Network Appliance, Inc. Jaime Jinks, 408/822-3761 jjinks@netapp.com Eric Brown, 408/822-3463 ebrown@netapp.com
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Landmark Graphics and Network Appliance Expand Their Partnering
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Landmark Graphics and Network Appliance Expand Their Partnering Relationship - Joint Agreement Will Lead to Improved Customer Workflow Efficiency - DALLAS, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Landmark Graphics Corporation, a wholly owned business unit of Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL), today announced its intent to expand its current sales agreement with Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP) the leading provider of network- attached data access and content delivery solutions. The planned expansion will involve joint technology development and joint marketing of products aimed at creating powerful, scalable computing solutions for the companies' common customers in the Exploration and Production (E & P) Industry. Joint technology development will include both Landmark and GeoGraphix suites of solutions, and will leverage Network Appliance's unique data management and delivery products. Jointly developed and co-marketed solutions will be uniquely targeted to E & P industry customers, and will result in reduced product cycles, more efficient deployment of data, simplified data storage and management, and lower total cost of interpretation. "With this commitment, Landmark is tightening the integration between the computer infrastructure and the software solutions offered by Landmark and GeoGraphix," said John Gibson, president and CEO of Landmark. "Landmark is noted for providing leading-edge technologies, and it's our intention to enter into an even closer partnership with Network Appliance that demonstrates our recognition of the value of including differentiating hardware infrastructure in our market offering." "We have had a working relationship with Landmark for a number of years, and have enjoyed many mutual customer successes," commented Tom Mendoza, President of Network Appliance. "This expansion of our formal agreement, and the work that our companies are doing to jointly develop powerful new technologies such as the DAFS initiative, solidifies our relationship and creates tremendous value to the E& P Industry." "Through this future joint agreement, a more efficient deployment of data and a lower total cost of ownership will result for our customers," said John Wilson, Landmark's executive vice president of marketing. "We will be able to further improve the exploration process, reduce the time to production and enhance our customers' geoscience experience." 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. Leading E& P industry companies including Chevron, Conoco, Shell, BP, TotalFina and others have deployed NetApp(R) 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. About Landmark Graphics Landmark is a leading supplier of integrated E&P technical and economic software and services to support decision making about finding, drilling and producing oil and gas. Knowledge-based E&P companies now are turning to Landmark for technical-to-business (T2B(TM)) process integration for improving returns on their investments. Visit the Landmark Web site at www.lgc.com . Founded in 1919, Halliburton Company is the world's leading diversified energy services, engineering, energy equipment, construction and maintenance company. In 1999, Halliburton's consolidated revenues were $14.9 billion, and it conducted business with a workforce of approximately 100,000 in more than 120 countries. The company's Web site can be accessed at www.halliburton.com Landmark, the Landmark logo and T2B are trademarks of Landmark Graphics Corporation. NetApp and the Network Appliance logo are registered trademarks and 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. SOURCE Landmark Graphics Corporation -0- 10/03/2000 /CONTACT: Rod Hotz of Landmark Graphics Corporation, 281-368-5766, or rhotz@lgc.com; or Jaime Jinks of Network Appliance, 408-822-3761, or jjinks@netapp.com/ /Web site: lgc.com halliburton.com
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Amdahl Strengthens Alliance With NetApp, Adds Latest Filer to
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Amdahl Strengthens Alliance With NetApp, Adds Latest Filer to Range of Network Storage Solutions SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2000-- Company Brings Three Decades of Enterprise Experience to Deployment and Customer Support of Network-Attached Storage Solutions Amdahl Corporation today announced that it would resell the new Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) hardware and software products that deliver network-attached storage solutions to simplify data management and improve performance and availability across networks. Network-attached storage is one of the fastest growing segments of information technology, providing plug-and-play storage capacity to large corporate enterprises. NetApp(R) F840 and F840c filers attach to mixed UNIX(R) and Windows NT(R) server networks and provide centralized access to data while improving data access performance and overall storage management. Amdahl, an expert in delivering information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace, and NetApp, the leader in providing network-attached storage (NAS) and management solutions, established a strategic reseller agreement in October 1999 to expand the worldwide deployment of network storage. The companies target the growing corporate enterprise and commercial data center marketplace. "The continuing alliance between Amdahl and NetApp is in response to the marketplace requirement for cost-effective management of growing online data," said Richard McCormack, vice president of Storage Marketing at Amdahl. "The new F840 series is an exciting opportunity for Amdahl and Network Appliance to deliver NAS solutions to customers who need to manage more data and to transport it within a network." "It has dawned on large enterprises just how mission-critical network-attached storage is to their success. Forward thinking vendors are introducing and delivering innovative and powerful NAS architected solutions to the market," said Michael Karp, director of Storage Management Services at the Hurwitz Group. The NetApp F840 series delivers enterprise class capacity, availability and reliability and allows customers to perform true data sharing between UNIX and Windows NT platforms. Other advanced product features of Network Appliance(TM) F840 series filers include SnapShot(TM), SnapMirror(TM), and SnapRestore(TM) which provide high availability, innovative backup, and disaster-recovery protection for today's large commercial enterprises. Advanced technology The NetApp F840c and F840 filers serve data with the following advanced technology and design: F840c Clustered Enterprise Filer -- Individual building block capacity to 12 terabytes1 (1)/8X increase -- Active/active clustering and integrated failover -- Maximized data availability for mission-critical environments -- 3.4X throughput performance increase to more than 25,900 SFS ops/sec at less than 1.6 ms overall response time (50% improvement) -- 3.9X NetBench throughput performance increase to more than 987 Mbits/sec F840 Enterprise Filer -- Individual building block capacity to 6 terabytes2 (2)/4X increase -- Greater than 99.99% data availability -- 2X throughput performance increase to more than 15,200 SFS ops/sec at less than 1.6ms overall response time (50% improvement) -- 2X NetBench throughput performance increase to more than 503 Mbits/sec Service, Support, and ROI Amdahl Services Organization, with three decades of experience in the deployment and integration of mission-critical systems, will provide infrastructure services individually tailored to customers who purchase Network Appliance products from Amdahl. Together, Amdahl and NetApp can offer quality components and smooth deployment while reducing risk and lowering total cost of ownership. A NetApp filer will be displayed in Amdahl booths at several key tradeshows during the next few months, including Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, October 2-5; and Gartner ITxpo2000 in Orlando, Florida, October 16-20. Full storage complement You can visit Amdahl at www.amdahl.com/storage to find out more about the company's extensive range of storage offerings, including the GSS 4900(TM) Modular Storage System, the StorStream(TM) Media Content System, System/390-compatible Platinum storage, and LVS(TM) Open Systems storage. About Network Appliance: netapp.com 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. About Amdahl Corporation: amdahl.com Amdahl Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, provides integrated computing solutions that meet the needs of many of the largest users of information technology in the world. Amdahl develops and deploys systems, services and support that meet the needs of the world's most compute-intensive organizations and environments. With more than 28 years of experience delivering large-scale computing and client/server technology, the Amdahl mission is to deliver innovative systems, services and support to lead customers to the most complete and powerful data centers of the 21st century. Amdahl is a registered trademark and StorStream, GSS 4900, and LVS are trademarks of Amdahl Corporation. NetApp is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries of Network Appliance. Network Appliance, NetCache, Data ONTAP, Snapshot, SnapMirror, and SnapRestore are trademarks of Network Appliance. 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. System/390 is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners and should be treated as such. The information in this document may be superseded by subsequent documents. For details regarding delivery of specific products, features, and services, contact your local Amdahl representative. NOTE TO EDITORS: Amdahl news releases are available on the Internet at amdahl.com, the Amdahl Corporation home page. The Amdahl site provides current, in-depth information on Amdahl offerings and solutions for enterprise computing. 1 Requires future Data ONTAP release 2 Requires Data ONTAP 6.0.1 --30--SS/na* CONTACT: Amdahl Corporation Perry Marlon, 408/746-8303 Perry:Marlon@amdahl.com www.amdahl.com or Neale-May & Partners Nicholas Walsh, 650/328-5555 ext 120 nwalsh@nealemay.com
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