WebManage Announces ContentMover Scalable Web Content Distribution and Management Software.

Business/Technology Editors

CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2000

Automates secure distribution of Web Content through intranets

and the Internet from Staging to Production servers; interacts

with Web Load Balancers and Caching Devices to push fresh content

to the "edge"

WebManage Technologies, the leader in website Content and Traffic Management solutions, today announced ContentMover(TM), a highly scalable, distributed, intuitive software application which automates secure Web Content distribution, replication, and synchronization between staging and production Web Servers.

ContentMover joins other WebManage products, including i-Scaler, the industry's only Web-based Class of Service (WebCoS(TM)) enabled Load Balancer, Enterprise Reporter and Service Level Reporter as essential Web infrastructure management tools. WebManage products assure maximum traffic throughput and vital performance statistics empowering e-Business and Web Content Managers to build and proactively manage high-performance, mission-critical e-Commerce, e-Content and e-Media Web sites.

"ContentMover securely distributes new content across global networks to multiple remote servers," stated Vijay Basani, CEO and Co-Founder of WebManage Technologies. "Clearly, businesses understand both the revenue and workflow benefits of Web-based e-Commerce and Business to Business (B2B) transactions. All of our products ensure reliable Web site traffic management, coupled with innovative content management applications guaranteeing an unhindered flow of this information. Emerging Web-based sales, marketing and supply-chain business models require relevant, consistent and fresh Web Content. As performance demands of a Web site or portal increase, WebManage's ContentMover and i-Scaler Load Balancer will work together to help Web Hosting Services, Application Service Providers and Enterprises automate the process of updating ever-changing Web content."

ContentMover's patent pending technology allows reliable distribution of content to high traffic, geographically dispersed, multi-server web sites. ContentMover intelligently deploys the content to remote servers through secure, encrypted and compressed data streams. It also implements reliable TCP/IP point-to-point transmission over the Internet while leveraging an innovative content distribution method that efficiently distributes new content between multiple adjacent servers within a particular LAN segment. These methods ensure firewall integrity and minimize LAN bandwidth consumed by updates within server clusters.

Marty Takessian, Senior Product Manager at WebManage, states, "If you have multiple web servers hosting data for your mission critical distributed website, ContentMover is the product you need to proactively deliver the most up-to-date content while consistently providing identical content to each of your web servers. ContentMover's prescheduled automatic updates, replication, synchronization, fault-tolerance, automatic discovery and browser-based user interface provide system administrators with a flexible and comprehensive Web content delivery solution."

ContentMover has the following key advantages:

--Securely deploys fresh, consistent content across intranets and the Internet

--Highly scalable for distribution of fresh content to tens or thousands of servers

--Scheduled distribution of content from staging to production servers

--Automatic replication and synchronization to replace old content; detects and synchronizes "stale" content

--Selectively compresses and encrypts distributed content

--Intuitive, easy to use, browser-based User Interface

--User defined policy-based content distribution

--Integration with leading load balancers and caches

--Secure SSL-based user authentication for administration access

--Built-in automatic discovery of sites, servers, and subnets

--Content versioning and restoration

--Automatic status reporting notification and alerts

--Rollback to previous version of Web content

--Detects and transmits only content changed from last update

Doug Williams, Senior VP of Technology for The Family Education Network (http://www.fen.com) says, "WebManage and its products, including ContentMover, are in-line with our requirements for Website and Content Management. Family Education Network uses the Internet to reach a community of parents, teachers, school administrators and professionals. Our network publishes several Websites including, funbrain.com, familyeducation.com, teachervision.com, myschoolonline.com, infoplease.com and schoolcash.com. We absolutely need tools to automate the manual process used today to update content across multiple Web servers. Since our organization's premise is Web- and Internet-based content delivery, we will implement WebManage's solid Web Content management solution to deliver fresh and pertinent content to our communities of interest."

"ContentMover provides essential capabilities, such as version control, rollback, secure transport, and user access privileges to assist in remote distribution of our source code, scripts, templates and content," adds Eric Kemp, Chief Technology Officer, Family Education Network.

Pricing and Availability

ContentMover is in beta now and will ship within 90 days. Pricing ranges from $15,000-$45,000 US, depending on implementation and number of web servers.

About WebManage Technologies, Inc.

WebManage Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1996 to provide Internet and Intranet infrastructure enabling software solutions for complete web site resource and performance management. WebManage enables partners and customers to deliver highly available, reliable and differentiated services. WebManage products have been recognized as the "Best of the Best" in technology at Networld+Interop JAPAN '99, Networld+Interop Vegas `99 and in various trade publications. Award winning and critically acclaimed, the WebManage family of products is available through direct and indirect channels worldwide. Some of WebManage partners include Computer Associates (NYSE:CA), IBM (NYSE:IBM), HP (NYSE:HWP), Compaq (NYSE:CPQ), Sybase (NASDQ:SYBS) and Sun Microsystems (NASDQ:SUNW). To obtain a complete listing of WebManage products, visit WebManage at http://www.webmanage.com, send email to [e-mail] or call 1-978-250-3270.

WebManage Technologies, i-Scaler, ContentMover, Service Level Reporter, Enterprise Reporter and WebCoS are either registered trademarks or trademarks of WebManage Technologies, Inc. All brands or product names are or may be trademarks of their respective owners. All other trademarks recognized.