Amdahl Strengthens Alliance With NetApp, Adds Latest Filer to Range of Network Storage Solutions.

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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: http://www.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: http://www.amdahl.com/about/abtamh.htm

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.

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1 Requires future Data ONTAP release

2 Requires Data ONTAP 6.0.1