ADVISORY/Network Appliance Director Keith Brown to Discuss Disaster Recovery Solutions at The Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference in San Francisco.

Business Editors

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Nov. 6)

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2001

Who: Keith Brown, Director of Strategy & Technology,
     Network Appliance, Inc.
     www.netapp.com

     Keith Brown will be highlighting NetApp's current disaster
     recovery solutions -- specific to data replication over global
     distances -- and how customers are utilizing these solutions
     today.

What: The Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference

      The Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference is an invitation-only
      event for business leaders from telecommunication, technology,
      investment, and public policy to debate global issues and
      opportunities.

When: Tuesday, November 6, 2001 at 9:50 a.m. PT
      Interviews available with Keith Brown before or after the panel
      discussion.

Topic: Storewidth vs. the Terror: Distributed Storage and Disaster
       Recovery

       Panelists include:

          --  Moderator:

              --  Neil Robertson, Technology Advisor, Exodus
                Communications; Technologist in Residence, Softbank
                Venture Capital

          --  Speakers:

              --  Keith Brown, Director of Strategy & Technology,
                Network Appliance, Inc.

              --  Dr. Geoff Barrall, CTO & Senior Vice President,
                Engineering, BlueArc Corporation

              --  Joshua Coates, CTO & Co-founder, Scale Eight, Inc.

          --  Commentator:

              --  Avi Freedman, Vice President & Chief Network
                Architect, Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Where: The Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference
       The Fairmont
       950 Mason Street
       San Francisco, California
       http://www.forbes.com/conf/telecosm/agenda1.shtml

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.