Digital Island Announces EBSCO Publishing as Customer, Ensuring Reliable Access to Crucial Data for Researchers.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 1999--

Major Electronic Publisher Uses Digital Island's

Intelligent Network to Extend Global Reach and

Improve Data Delivery to Europe and Asia

Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD), a leading provider of network services for globalizing e-Business applications, announced today EBSCO Publishing as a customer, aimed at the deployment of research to corporations, libraries and universities worldwide.

Because Digital Island's Intelligent Network is specifically designed to distribute content via the most direct global route, researchers accessing EBSCO Publishing's databases can quickly download critical data, regardless of time of day or geography. Prior to using Digital Island's GlobePort service, EBSCO Publishing's European and Asian customers had been suffering frustrating timeouts and "server not found" notifications, due to the public Internet's indirect routing of traffic which typically causes packet loss and slow download times.

"Sluggish online response times are no longer acceptable to our subscribers who need to continually access very large amounts of data quickly and consistently," said Mike Gorrell, chief information officer at EBSCO Publishing. "Working with Digital Island has allowed us to offer a consistent, reliable service into regions that are practically impenetrable by the Internet."

"E-publishers are grappling with the many challenges related to the global distribution of complex data," said Ruann F. Ernst, president and CEO of Digital Island. "By using Digital Island's Intelligent Network, EBSCO Publishing can revolutionize content distribution in markets that are starved of high-performance data delivery services."

EBSCO Publishing (http://www.epnet.com) produces electronic databases for libraries, schools, corporations and consumers worldwide. The company's databases are available via the Internet using EBSCOhost, a proprietary service operated from EBSCO's headquarters in Ipswich, Mass. The company's database of article abstracts comprises over 4,000 of the world's leading periodicals.

Digital Island(R) is a leading provider of network services for globalizing e-Business applications. Digital Island serves companies that need to securely and consistently extend business-critical applications for marketing, selling, servicing, or distributing products via the Internet. Digital Island's service includes global content distribution and hosting, the localization of end-user online experiences, and a reliable global Intelligent Network, all of which are designed to deliver the right content, to the right customer, in the right market, at the right time. The Company has regional data centers in New York, Santa Clara, Honolulu and London, connecting directly into 19 countries with Local Content Managers in nine markets worldwide to provide the ubiquity and reach of the public Internet with the quality and functionality normally available only in a corporate wide-area network.

Important Notice

Digital Island is a registered trademark of Digital Island, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, include but are not limited to: the company's short operating history which makes it difficult to predict its future results of operations; the company's history of operating losses and expected future losses which could impede its ability to address the risks and difficulties encountered by companies in new and rapidly evolving markets; the company's future operating results could fluctuate which may cause volatility or a decline in the price of the company's stock; the company may not be able to price its services above the overall cost of bandwidth causing its financial results to suffer; and other factors detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its recent filing on Form S-1.