Energis Squared Cuts Costs and Increases Capacity With Network Appliance Storage Solutions.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2001

Network Appliance, Inc.(TM) (Nasdaq:NTAP), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, today announced that Energis Squared has reduced its power consumption by 50% and doubled its capacity by deploying additional NetApp(R) solutions. Energis Squared, the Internet and e-business arm of Energis, is a FTSE 100 business telecommunications and Internet company. With NetApp, Energis Squared was able to add 25,000 managed modem ports to its infrastructure to keep pace with tremendous UK Internet usage during the busy December holiday season. Equally impressive, Energis Squared was able to remove the need to invest in expensive data center expansion projects and support more customers from the existing data center capacity instead.

The new deployments at Energis Squared include both the NetCache(TM) C6100 as well as the company's flagship storage product, the NetApp F840. This allows Energis to realize the full benefits of the NetApp center-to-edge(TM) value proposition for moving and managing content at all points throughout the enterprise and around the network.

Energis Squared has used NetApp solutions since the company's inception. Over the years, Energis Squared has relied upon Network Appliance to power key portions of the company's infrastructure.

As Ian Massingham, director of hosting at Energis Squared notes, "To serve our customers, which include some of the best-known e-businesses in Europe, as well as ISPs such as Freeserve, we must have technology solutions that are immediately scalable, that have unprecedented reliability, and allow us to integrate with our customers' existing enterprise systems. We need storage solutions that are flexible, offer outstanding levels of performance and availability and operate seamlessly across Microsoft(R), UNIX(R), and Linux(R) platforms. That combination points inevitably to Network Appliance."

As Richard Mooney, network operations manager at Energis Squared continued, "NetApp solutions are practical for two growth challenges that we continually face: physical space to grow, and seemingly exponential capacity growth on-the-fly."

"The success Energis Squared has achieved with our solutions demonstrates the benefits enterprises around the world realize from their NetApp investments -- lower TCO combined with tremendous scalability and deployability," said Mark Santora, senior vice president of marketing at Network Appliance. "These benefits are appealing for any IT organization, but become a true 'make or break' proposition in these times of scrutinized IT expenditures."

About Network Appliance

Network Appliance, Inc., a leader in network file 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(TM) solution offers seamless data management from the back-end data center to the edge of the network quickly, simply, and reliably. The Network Appliance(TM) 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.

Note to Editors: NetApp is a registered trademark and Network Appliance, NetCache, center to edge, and Data ONTAP are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.