Loudcloud Expands Globally; Offices in London, Munichand Paris are first stage of Loudcloud's...

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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2000

Loudcloud Inc. today announced the expansion of its operations into Europe with the opening of offices in London, Paris and Munich.

As a result, European companies can now take

When Loudcloud's presence in a United Kingdom data center opens in October, existing Loudcloud customers more easily and quickly extend their services internationally. This helps achieve consistent levels of performance and reliability because the application can be located closer to European end-users. Additionally, Loudcloud customers looking to enter the European marketplace will not need to find, hire and train an international operations staff to manage and monitor their deployment.

"Building a highly-skilled operations team is complex enough without trying to build several of them worldwide," said Wade Myers, Chairman and CEO of Interelate. "Thanks to Loudcloud, our operations can scale very rapidly and still have consistently high quality around the world."

"Our customers are eager to expand into Europe so it was imperative that Loudcloud move quickly to enhance our network of infrastructure services with international capabilities," said Ben Horowitz, CEO of Loudcloud. "European customers can now leverage the leading edge infrastructure services that Loudcloud provides. Likewise, business based in North America can work with Loudcloud to quickly cross the Atlantic to be closer to their European customers."

Overseeing all Europe operations is Albert Benhamou, vice president of field operation for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Pascal Desaint, Dirk Hennings, and Danyon Lloyd will oversee operations in France and Germany respectively

"European companies need the intelligent hosting technologies Loudcloud provides so that they can focus on their core competencies to meet customer demands," said Benhamou.

About Loudcloud

Loudcloud, Inc. was formed in September 1999 to build and run best-of-breed infrastructure services designed for Fortune 500 companies, ASPs and high-growth Internet businesses. Founded by some of the Internet's most respected leaders, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and former Netscape/AOL executives Ben Horowitz, Tim Howes and In Sik Rhee, Loudcloud provides Smart Cloud(TM) services which encompass the complete suite of software, hardware, network and operations infrastructure -- including procuring, architecting, and managing these core components -- as a turn-key service. These Smart Cloud services leverage Loudcloud's proprietary Opsware(TM) automation technology to deliver unprecedented levels of scalability and reliability for a broad base of customers. For more information on Loudcloud, please visit our web site at www.loudcloud.com.

Loudcloud, Smart Cloud, and Opsware are service marks and trademarks of Loudcloud, Inc. All other trademarks appearing in this document are the property of their respective owners.