CacheFlow Teams with EMC to Provide End-to-End Solution for Source to Edge Content Storage, Management and Distribution.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. 2001 CONFERENCE Booth No. 133 SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001 CacheFlow Inc. (Nasdaq:CFLO CFLO Central Florida Lyric Opera ), the leader in content-smart networking, today announced its use of EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. CLARiiON(R) information storage as part of its new end-to-end solutions for storage, management and delivery of content from the data center to the network edge. The combined solution offers enterprise and service provider customers "same-view" access to business-critical information at multiple points in the network. This solution enables enterprise customers the ability to simultaneously exchange and use information throughout their intranet and at remote office locations. Service provider customers and their end-users can extend their ability to scale business based on various information mediums including streaming, web, dynamic or application-based content. CacheFlow is first offering a Content Synchronization module to CacheFlow's new cIQ(TM) Director, also announced today, to ensure that content changes on EMC CLARiiON(TM) information storage solutions are transparently updated to cIQ Edge Accelerators. This solution facilitates the delivery of business-critical information to the edge of a content delivery network. CacheFlow and EMC's mutual customers can extend end-user reach and increase satisfaction, while driving new revenue opportunities by enabling new solutions such as distanced-based learning and training, highly available web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. and acceleration, streaming content delivery networks and business to business content exchanges. "There is a new and emerging requirement to provide tight integration with storage and content delivery networks for secure web and streaming content," said Cindy Borovick, program manager at IDC, "CacheFlow addresses this requirement by intelligently integrating content management with EMC information storage in end-to-end network-wide solutions." "Our combined efforts with EMC represent a significant win for our joint customers," said Brian NeSmith Brian NeSmith is a technology entrepreneur and CEO of Blue Coat Systems, Inc. NeSmith graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984, holding a Bachelors Degree in electrical engineering. , president and chief executive officer for CacheFlow. "By offering the best of breed in storage and content-smart networking solutions, our customers will have the most rapid and available access to information." "Customers have been asking us to marry the high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and high performance features of CLARiiON with CacheFlow's smart content distribution capabilities to give them robust information storage and access all the way out to the edge of the network," said Joel Schwartz, EMC's senior vice president and general manager of Midrange Systems. "With today's announcement we're delivering just what the market is seeking." About CacheFlow Inc. CacheFlow is focused on content-smart networking -- a new layer of infrastructure for intelligently accelerating, delivering, and managing static, streaming, and dynamic content. CacheFlow's market-leading appliances and innovative content delivery technologies enable enterprises, service providers and content delivery network providers to deliver the right content to the right place at the right time. Based in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , CacheFlow can be contacted via telephone at 408/220-2200, fax at 408/220-2250 or email at info@cacheflow.com. About EMC Corporation EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. EMC Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing the information infrastructure for a connected world. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.emc.com. Forward-Looking Statements The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding CacheFlow's expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to CacheFlow as of the date hereof, and CacheFlow assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially form those projected. These and other risks relating to CacheFlow's business are set forth in CacheFlow's Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarter ended October 31, 2000 and Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the year ended April 30, 2000, and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Note to Editors: CacheFlow is a registered trademark of CacheFlow Inc. in the U.S. and worldwide. EMC and CLARiiON are registered trademarks of EMC Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. Please see CacheFlow at Content Delivery Networks (CDN) 2001 conference, February 21-23 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , booth no. 133. |
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