REMINDER/Network Appliance Hosts Press Briefings at CeBIT 2002.

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REMINDER ... for Wednesday (March 13)

CeBIT 2002

Booth 6i2 Hall 1

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Network Appliance (Nasdaq:NTAP)

    What: At its CeBIT booth, Network Appliance will demonstrate an
    enterprise computing scenario with a data center and two remote
    offices outfitted with the latest storage and content delivery
    solutions.

    Also at the show, Network Appliance will hold a press conference.
    Ray Villeneuve, vice president of Strategic Marketing at Network
    Appliance, will brief international press about Network
    Appliance's strategy and will present the company's latest
    developments. The press conference will be held on March 13, from
    12 noon to 1 p.m. in the Convention Center, room 108-110.

    Representatives from Network Appliance including Rich Clifton,
    vice president of commercial solutions marketing, Ian Henderson,
    vice president of Europe, and Andreas Konig, vice president of
    Central Europe, will also be available at CeBIT for media
    interviews.

    The data center will be represented by a NetApp(R) F880c filer
    cluster. On the application side, IBM(R) DB2(R) EEE and
    mySAP.com(TM) will be part of the scenario. The powerful DAFS
    (Direct Access File System) protocol will be deployed over
    InfiniBand to optimize these enterprise applications. The data
    center is connected via a POP to two remote offices, which are
    represented by a workgroup F87 filer, and a workgroup NetCache(R)
    system. The POP includes another NetCache system as well as the
    NetApp software solutions DataFabric(TM) Manager,
    ContentReporter(TM), and Content Director(TM). A highlight of the
    installation is the NetApp backup and restore solution
    NearStore(TM) which will be presented for the first time in
    Europe.

    Where: Network Appliance booth 6i2 in hall 1 at Messegelaende
    Hanover, Germany

    When: CeBIT 2002 will be held on March 13-20, 2002

    RSVP: To arrange a media interview at CeBIT, please contact Heike
    Stautner at [e-mail].

Note to Editors: NetApp and NetCache are registered trademarks and Network Appliance, ContentDirector, ContentReporter, NearStore, and Data ONTAP are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. mySAP.com is a trademark of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries. IBM and DB2 are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.