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Toshiba Licenses Novell Internet Caching System to e-Business Performance Infrastructure Toshiba and Novell Unite to Offer Customers Easy to Use Caching Appliance for Web Acceleration PROVO, Utah — Dec. 22, 1999 — Novell Inc. today announced that Toshiba Corporation of Japan has licensed the Novell® Internet Caching System™ and will begin shipping a cache appliance, the Toshiba MAGNIA* CS10 Cache Server, in Japan in January 2000. Toshiba, a world leader in high technology, will target businesses of all sizes that are looking to accelerate Web performance and reduce Internet connection costs. Toshiba's licensing of the Novell Internet Caching System adds to Novell's momentum as the broadest supplier of Web infrastructure products in the market. Beginning with Novell Directory Services® (NDS ®) the leading directory platform, Novell provides customers with a single buying decision for key Web infrastructure services that work together seamlessly in e-business solutions. Novell solutions enable customers to extend the reach of their existing computer networks across the Internet to employees, customers and supply-chain partners. "As the demand for bandwidth continues to rise in conjunction with the growth of e-business, a robust, scalable, high performance caching solution is necessary to meet the needs of today's customers," said Ron Heinz, senior vice president, worldwide sales, Novell. "The combination of the Toshiba MAGNIA CS10 Cache Server and the Novell Internet Caching System provides a Web performance infrastructure and improves Internet response times to help ensure a positive e-business experience for customers." Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed Web pages and Internet content on local servers, speeding information access and lowering network telecommunications costs. Caching helps ensure a positive experience for customers visiting e-business Web sites by accelerating the performance of that site's Web servers. The Internet Research Group, publishers of the 1999 Internet Caching Report, estimates that the worldwide caching market will reach nearly $2.2 billion by the year 2003. The MAGNIA CS10 Cache Server is based on the open and robust Toshiba MAGNIA server series, and is integrated with the Novell Internet Caching System, the most widely used caching system today. Toshiba has optimized the Novell Internet Caching System and MAGNIA's hardware performance to accelerate Web access up to 25 times of normal Internet connections in Toshiba lab tests. Toshiba is an integrated manufacturer of electrical and electronic products spanning information and communications, equipment and systems, electronic components and materials, power systems and industrial equipment and consumer. The MAGNIA CS10 Cache Server, targeted at the appliance server market, will help meet the demands of businesses through single purpose servers with specific functions. Toshiba will continue to meet the challenges of borderless operations and mega-competition and is resolved to remain at the cutting-edge of the world's electronics industry.
Novell Internet Caching System The Novell Internet Caching System is licensed as an Intel-based solution appliance from OEM partners including Compaq, Dell, Hitachi, Legend, Microbits, NEC**, Pionex, Quantex, and Toshiba. The Novell Internet Caching System dramatically improves the speed and efficiency of delivering Internet content to employees, business partners and customers within business networks as well as across the Internet. Delivering unmatched throughput, scalability, and price/performance, the Novell Internet Caching System can be installed within 10 minutes to support any Web environment whether Cisco*, Linux, NetWare®, NT, Solaris* or other versions of UNIX*. Novell Internet Caching System appliances scale from branch office requirements to those of the largest Internet Service Providers. Additionally leading 3rd party solutions providers have endorsed the Novell Internet Caching System including Akamai Technologies, Alteon WebSytems, Arrowpoint, Edgix, Foundry Networks, Intel, Log On Data, Mirror-Image Internet, N2H2 and SkyCache. Please visit www.novell.com/nics for more information. About Novell Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVL) is the world's leading provider of directory-enabled networking software. Novell solutions give businesses total control of their private networks and the Internet, simplifying the management of user access and identity. Novell's worldwide channel, consulting, developer, education and technical support programs are the most extensive in the network computing industry. For information on Novell's complete range of products and services, contact Novell's Customer Response Center at (888) 321-4CRC (4272), or visit Novell's Web site at http://www.novell.com. Press may access Novell announcements and company information on the World Wide Web at http://www.novell.com/pressroom. In addition, detailed comparisons between Novell products and competitive offerings from other vendors are available on the Web at http://www.novell.com/advantage. For information on the Year 2000 status of Novell products, please access Novell's Year 2000 Web site at http://www.novell.com/year2000 or contact Novell's Customer Response Center at year2000@novell.com. Novell, NetWare, NDS and Novell Directory Services are registered trademarks, and Novell Internet Caching System is a trademark of Novell, Inc in the United States and other countries. *All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners. **The agreement referenced here is with NEC Corporation and does not (currently) cover the NEC Computer Systems Division (NEC CSD) which is responsible for the North American and South American geographies.
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