Forbes.com Revs Up Web Site Operations with WARP SpiderCache; Leading Business and Investment Portal Maintains Peak Performance Levels and Delivers Dynamic Content by 500 Percent.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2004 WARP Technology Holdings, Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). BB: WRPT WRPT Wisconsin Railway Preservation Trust ), a leading provider of network and application acceleration technology solutions, today announced that Forbes.com Inc., one of the first WARP 2063 clients, has decided to upgrade to WARP SpiderCache to enhance the performance and ensure availability of its global Web site operations. With WARP SpiderCache, Forbes.com has slashed slash v. slashed, slash·ing, slash·es v.tr. 1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes: slash a path through the underbrush. 2. the time to deliver dynamic content substantially. Additionally, the system is well-equipped to manage traffic spikes that occur during peak periods, such as when the Forbes 500 list or other related features are unveiled. One of the most trusted business and investment sites on the Internet, Forbes.com averages 6.8 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. per month. The site features real-time news and information on business, technology, investing, and lifestyle issues. It also offers a broad range of dynamic content, such as stock and mutual fund quotes, comprehensive company profiles, and a wide array of interactive tools, calculators, and databases. Available as software or as a software-based appliance, WARP SpiderCache provides a powerful system to accelerate the delivery of Web-based applications See Web application. and dynamic content over IP-based networks. Forbes.com installed the software version of WARP SpiderCache between a cluster of back-end content servers and a third-party streaming service that delivers rich audio and video advertisements within banners. Because of WARP SpiderCache's non-intrusive design and multiple caching methods, Forbes.com is able to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. and customize its content publishing system on an ongoing basis without the need for coding and programming. "It is critical that our Web site and the dynamic applications and content on it are readily available at all times, and impervious im·per·vi·ous adj. 1. Incapable of being penetrated: a material impervious to water. 2. Incapable of being affected: impervious to fear. to traffic spikes," explained Michael Smith Michael or Mike Smith may refer to: Journalists
"High traffic sites like Forbes.com that serve a mix of dynamic content can greatly benefit from WARP SpiderCache," explained Michael Liss, Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing. "The solution is designed to offload To remove work from one computer and do it on another. See cooperative processing. application server requests, which ultimately minimizes bottlenecks and optimizes performance. This enables organizations to accelerate the delivery of Web-based applications and content, and get more out of their existing IT investment. The Forbes.com commitment to SpiderCache is one of a number of exciting client implementations we will announce shortly." WARP SpiderCache is part of the company's GTEN GTEN Government Technology Executive News (Global Transaction Enabled Network) architecture, which includes a series of software and appliances designed to improve network and server performance, and enable distributed content and application acceleration on a global scale. About WARP Technology Holdings, Inc. WARP Technology Holdings (OTC BB: WRPT) is a leading provider of network and application acceleration technology solutions. Through its subsidiaries WARP Solutions, Inc. and SpiderSoftware, Inc., and its licensing arrangement with iMimic Networking, Inc., the company offers a strategic portfolio of software and hardware solutions to significantly improve the speed, performance, and reliability of business-critical applications and content delivered over IP-based networks. For information, contact 877-688-9277 or visit www.warpsolutions.com. Cautionary Statement Statements contained herein which are not historical information are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those included in the forward-looking statements for a variety of reasons, including the level of acceptance of the WARP 2063e product by the marketplace, the ability of the product to achieve the results for which it is designed, the ability of the company to raise capital to fund operations and marketing programs for this product, competition from other approaches to application acceleration and network architecture, and other risks described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. The Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements. |
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