Digital Island Opens Silicon Valley's Newest Data Center With State-of-the-Art Infrastructure.

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000

Data Center Enhances Digital Island's Integrated Solution of Hosting,

Content Delivery, Network and Application Services 

Digital Island, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISLD), a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network, announced today the opening of Silicon Valley's newest data center, featuring a technologically advanced infrastructure to support the most rigorous requirements for Internet commerce worldwide.

Digital Island's data center in San Jose, California, the heart of Silicon Valley, was built to ensure customers uninterrupted access to new, global Internet markets. With this data center, Digital Island continues to expand its integrated suite of hosting, content delivery, network and applications services. By also placing storage capacity and processing power at the edge of the network with ISP partners, Digital Island can better utilize its strategically located data centers in Silicon Valley, New York, Honolulu, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo for business-critical applications.

"As more companies adopt Linux open standard for their enterprise applications, it is critical that Linuxcare can ensure its customers consistent access to a global information network of customer support, professional services, education and certification," said Doug Nassaur, vice president of engineering and CIO of Linuxcare. "We recognize Digital Island's data centers as the most secure and reliable platform for our business-critical applications, allowing us to stay focused on our core business."

"Our Silicon Valley data center features the state-of the-art infrastructure essential to ongoing customer retention in a highly competitive global marketplace," said Ruann F. Ernst, chairman and CEO of Digital Island. "The ability to support e-Business all day, every day is the cornerstone for inspiring confidence in the new generation of companies that rely on the Internet to break into new markets and develop additional revenue streams. Working in conjunction with our other strategically located data centers in the U.S., Europe and Asia, our new Silicon Valley data center will contribute to our mission of providing a superior end-user experience."

In addition to 24 x 7 x 365 on-site personnel, back up and disaster recovery systems, Digital Island's 77,000-square-foot Silicon Valley data center features:

    -   Connections to the commercial electrical power grid via two
        separate lines from two different power sources.

    -   Three 1,250 kW generators, supported by dual 750Kva UPS units.

    -   Redundant computer HVAC units, supported by three redundant
        270-ton air-cooled chillers.

    -   Seismically braced structure in accordance with Essential
        Facilities status.

    -   Dual Level secured access with Biometrics Readers.

    -   Single Entry Man trap system.

    -   Video camera surveillance with worldwide monitoring
        capabilities.

    -   Enterprise storage and tape backup systems.

    In terms of overall capability, Digital Island's Silicon Valley
data center has:

    -   Three chillers, each at 270 tons of refrigeration capacity, or
        enough cooling for over 1,600 residential refrigerators. The
        chillers can cool 4,300 gallons of boiling water to ice in one
        hour.

    -   The three chilled water pumps, with one as standby, each
        running at 600 gallons per minute, circulate enough water to
        fill a standard bathtub in less than 20 seconds.

    -   Special computer-room air-conditioning units produce over
        300,000 cubic feet per minute of conditioned air. This is
        enough to fill up the Goodyear blimp in less than two minutes.
        If that air flow was directed down an average corridor, the
        wind speed would be almost 80 miles per hour - only slightly
        lower than the landing stall speed of an F-4 Phantom fighter
        jet.

    -   In an average day, the 25 computer-room air-conditioning units
        will flash boil 4,000 pounds of water for humidification. This
        is the average amount 1,000 people drink in a day, or enough
        for 8,500 cups of coffee.

    -   The emergency generator plant can provide more than 200,000
        kilowatt-hours of energy. With this much power, you could run
        200 average homes for one month.

The new data center provides the infrastructure for Digital Island's innovative hosting services for the 24x7x365 outsourcing of hardware and server management, server co-location and all-inclusive server administration.

Digital Island(R) is a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate content delivery, hosting and intelligent networking to give the ultimate consumer a superior experience. Strategically located Data Centers in the United States, Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 27 countries. In addition, Digital Island operates a network of more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets. This network is expected to grow to more than 6,000 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco. www.digitalisland.net.

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 filings on Form S-1.