Network Appliance, Oracle, and FastTango Deliver Highly Scalable, Robust Database Solutions.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2001

Companies Preview Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters Running on

FastTango Cluster Platform on Linux and Network Appliance(TM) Filers

Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, previewed for the first time its Network Appliance filers running Oracle9i Real Application Clusters on FastTango Cluster Platform with SuSE Linux. The preview demonstrates the performance, availability, and scalability of NetApp(R) solutions running Oracle9i on the FastTango(R) cluster platform. As the demo at Oracle OpenWorld (OOW) Berlin showed, Oracle9i Database, FastTango clustering technology, and Network Appliance filers work together seamlessly to deliver robust performance and high solution availability.

As a result, enterprise customers seeking new data center solutions can achieve tremendous application scalability and virtually unlimited applications/solutions growth with few business disruptions caused by scheduled downtime and maintenance to bring new systems online. As Network Appliance describes the solution, it is deployable "out of the box" and in minutes. Enterprise customers can also gain a simplified way to share data from Center-to-Edge(TM) throughout their information-intensive enterprise infrastructures.

"The teamwork among Oracle, Network Appliance, and FastTango has created a unique business solution that will meet the needs of our global customers as their information needs grow exponentially, and demands on their data centers increase," said Doug Kennedy, vice president, Global Partnerships, Oracle Corporation. "The highly available and highly scalable Oracle9i Real Application Clusters coupled with the Linux cluster platform of FastTango and the network-centric storage system from Network Appliance provide a simple-to-install, -deploy, and -maintain database solution for today's business customer, who has a world of information to manage and protect, but precious little time and few human resources to work with."

"We are excited to team with Oracle and FastTango to deliver storage and data management solutions that are highly available, extremely reliable, scalable, and simple to manage and expand for global enterprise database environments, " noted Mark Santora, senior vice president of marketing at Network Appliance. "We look forward to our continued success with Oracle and FastTango in meeting and anticipating our customers' data and information needs. And we are already exploring ways to leverage our Center-to-Edge expertise into this powerful new database solution, in effect liberating information from the data center and proliferating it throughout the enterprise."

Oracle9i Real Application Clusters running on Linux and NetApp filers delivers the highest levels of availability and scalability with these additional key features:

-- Rapid recovery from failures

-- Support for physical and logical standby databases

-- Online maintenance operations

-- Sophisticated diagnosis and repair of failure conditions

-- Transparent application failover

Certification of the Oracle9i Real Application Clusters for NetApp filers has begun and official support is expected by Q3, 2001.

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 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's storage and content delivery platforms (filers and NetCache(TM) appliances) are coupled with powerful content distribution and reporting software. This center-to-edge solution offers seamless data management from the back-end data center to the edge of the network quickly, simply, and reliably. The Network Appliance 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 Center-to-Edge, Network Appliance, NetCache, SnapMirror, Snapshot, and Data ONTAP are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle9i and Oracle OpenWorld are trademarks of Oracle Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark of X/Open Company Limited, in the U.S. and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds, used with permission. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.