Network Appliance and Oracle Demonstrate Industry's First Database DAFS Solution At Oracle Open World Berlin.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

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

Network Appliance, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTAP), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, is demonstrating for the first time Direct Access File System (DAFS) interfacing with Oracle(R) Disk Manager (ODM) on the Oracle9i Database and NetApp(R) filers, at Oracle OpenWorld Berlin being held from June 18-21 in the Internationale Congress Centrum ICC in Berlin, Germany. This new technology promises to significantly enhance mission-critical solutions performance by speeding up data transfers between and among compute servers and storage. This is the first demonstration of DAFS running in an enterprise software environment. It underscores the growing relationship and close collaboration between Oracle and Network Appliance to advance the state of storage networking and bring powerful new applications and solutions to customers.

"This technology relationship demonstrates the lead Network Appliance is taking to provide powerful new solutions for Oracle environments, as well as Network Appliance's continued lead in network-centric storage solutions," said Rich Clifton, vice president of commercial solutions marketing at Network Appliance. "By working ever more closely with Oracle, we are able to deliver industry firsts that benefit our customers and that raise the bar for the industry."

Network Appliance and Oracle have been working closely over the last year to bring new solutions and technologies to market, and have enhanced their marketing and development relationships to bring more powerful solutions to their joint customers. Network Appliance is among the first storage vendors to support Oracle9i Real Application Clusters as referenced in a separate release issued today. The company has pioneered network-centric storage solutions that help maximize Oracle database performance using customers' existing IT infrastructures and networks, and has recently demonstrated TCO figures up to 70% lower than competitive solutions with greater data availability and uptime in Oracle database environments.

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 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. Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle9i and Oracle OpenWorld are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark 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.