ADVISORY/Network Appliance CEO Presents at Prudential Securities Technology Conference in New York.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY... for Wednesday (Oct. 31)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

What: Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTAP) CEO Dan Warmenhoven will
      participate in the Prudential Securities Technology Conference
      in New York, NY. Mr. Warmenhoven's presentation will be
      available on the Prudential Securities public website at
      www.prufn.com and can also be accessed at:

http://customer.nvglb.com/Prudential/techconf/RegFD/default.asp?
speaker=A169B166F155A151O161U155N168Y105M108W.

When:  Wednesday, October 31, 2001 at 1:35 p.m. EST.

Where: Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York, NY.

Network Appliance 

Network Appliance, Inc., a leader in network storage and content delivery, 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 service providers, including Lycos, Yahoo!, Citicorp Securities, Siemens, Lockheed, Cisco, Motorola, and Texas Instruments have deployed NetApp(R) solutions.

The company pioneered the concept of the "network appliance," an extension of the industry trend toward dedicated, specialized products that perform a single function. NetApp storage and content delivery platforms (filers and NetCache(TM) appliances) are coupled with powerful content distribution and reporting software. This Center-to-Edge solution offers seamless data management from the back-end data center to the edge of the network quickly, simply, and reliably. The Network Appliance product portfolio utilizes the company's innovative data access software, known as the Data ONTAP(TM) operating system, as well as standards-compliant hardware. It also offers multiprotocol support and transparent integration for UNIX(R) and Windows(R) environments.