Network Appliance Enables Faster Remote Office Access to Critical Business Applications.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2002

Business Application Acceleration Improves Access and Delivers

Dramatic Increase in Return on Investment (ROI)

Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTAP), a leading provider of enterprise

network storage solutions, today expanded its business application storage technology portfolio with the introduction of business application acceleration, a new solution to improve remote office access to enterprise applications. This powerful implementation expands the capabilities of NetApp(R) enterprise storage solutions enabling global companies to deliver faster remote access to ERP, CRM, SCM, and other business-critical applications. With this solution, customers can benefit from increased application performance and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) throughout the entire application infrastructure.

Network Appliance(TM) business application acceleration solutions address the challenges today's global enterprises experience when deploying Web-enabled applications: long delays, poor performance due to congested WAN links, heavily loaded servers, and low bandwidth connections. By improving remote office access to critical business data, Network Appliance business acceleration solutions dramatically increase employee productivity and overall investment return of the application software and infrastructure.

"At the end of the day, customer satisfaction is what makes or breaks businesses," said Mark Santora, senior vice president of marketing at Network Appliance. "Employees in every location must be empowered with the tools they need to succeed such as instant access to sales orders, corporate financial data, or manufacturing and shipping reports. Rather than experiencing the typical remote office latency issues associated with accessing applications residing at corporate headquarters, Network Appliance solutions deliver business application data more quickly, minimizing delays, and dramatically improve quality of service for customers."

By deploying NetCache(R) appliances in remote offices, customers are able to leverage the unique functionality of the business application acceleration solution to improve the performance of their applications. As a result, users experience reduced redundant traffic on the WAN, enhanced control over the local delivery of content, as well as fast and efficient access to data, thereby elevating the value of these applications.

Network Appliance business application acceleration solutions further unite the suite of NetApp storage platforms by leveraging sophisticated data management, distribution, and security software to both centrally and remotely power applications from top software vendors including Oracle(R), SAP(R) and Siebel(R).

"Our ECDN, with NetCache appliances, has made a significant impact on the user and customer experience in our remote sites," said Pierre-Olivier Monnier, CTO, Logitech. "Users are very happy with the improved application response-time, since they can finish up their tasks and respond to customers nearly twice as fast as they could before."

"For Appshop to maintain its leadership position as the largest independent Oracle application service provider, we must continue to offer the highest quality of service that the industry has come to expect from us," said Michael Jennings, senior vice president of technology, Appshop. "By using NetCache, we have dramatically improved the speed at which we deliver applications to our customers, significantly increasing the value our customers require to run their business more efficiently."

Siebel users can also expect significant performance improvements. Independent third party test results show that for the Siebel 7 Web Client in a distributed user environment, NetApp ECDN solutions can reduce the average business process time by up to 45% compared to installations not using the NetApp solution.

About Network Appliance

Network Appliance is a world leader in open network storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has pioneered technology, product, and partner firsts that continue to drive the evolution of storage. Information about Network Appliance solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com.

NetApp and NetCache are registered trademarks and Network Appliance is a trademark of Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Oracle is a registered trademark of the Oracle Corporation. SAP is a registered trademark of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries. Siebel is a registered trademark of Siebel Systems, Inc. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.