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IP: Sandpiper/Digital Island merger
interesting-people message | | | -- | | Subject : IP: Sandpiper/Digital Island merger From : Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu> Date : Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:36:16 -0400 > >DIGITAL ISLAND TO MERGE WITH SANDPIPER NETWORKS'EXPANDING >SERVICES FOR GLOBALIZING E-BUSINESS APPLICATIONS > >Industry Leaders Unite to Redefine Network Services for Deploying Successful >e-Business Worldwide > > >SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- October 25, 1999 -Digital Island, Inc.. In >addition, the new entity will combine key intellectual property from both >companies including Digital Island's TraceWare™ software and Sandpiper >Networks' FootprintSM content delivery technologies to make Web experiences >faster and more locally relevant.. Ernst, President and CEO of Digital >Island said.. "Together, Digital Island and Sandpiper Networks will empower >our customers to attract and grow their revenues by delivering excellent >end-user experiences -- anywhere, anytime." > >"Digital Island and Sandpiper Networks share a common vision regarding the >best possible way to distribute computing intelligence around the world and >deliver the right experience to the ultimate user, " Leo Spiegel, President >and CEO of Sandpiper Networks said.
Press release: Cable & Wireless introduces Digital Island and 2Way Web Services
. Digital Island today also announced the launch of its new leading edge customer offering, 2Way Web Services, with three major international customers already signed up.. Digital Island's offering enables enterprises to transact, deliver and manage e-business content to reduce operating costs and increase revenues, while ensuring high quality service for end users.. Recent GIGA research found that Global 500 companies outsourcing with Digital Island's 2Way Web Services achieved an estimated 28 per cent cost reduction in implementation, deployment and maintenance of hosting and content services and experienced a payback period averaging three months - four times faster than competing solutions that use content delivery without integrated hosting.. (Full details in separate DI release.) Also announced by Digital Island today are three new customers: Cisco Networking Academy, Walt Disney Internet Group and Pearson.. The Cisco Network Academy Program is using Digital Island's 2Way Web Services to help reduce the costs of delivering education and IT training to some 200, 000 students worldwide.
Press release: Cable & Wireless Completes Tender Offer for Digital Island Common Stock; Announces Subsequent Offering Period
Press releases Cable & Wireless Completes Tender Offer for Digital Island Common Stock; Announces Subsequent Offering Period LONDON, ENGLAND and NEW YORK, NY - (BUSINESS WIRE) - June 19, 2001 - Cable and Wireless plc (LSE: CW.; NYSE: CWP) ("Cable & Wireless") and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Cable & Wireless USA, Inc.. (Cable & Wireless USA") and Dali Acquisition Corp., announced today the completion of their tender offer for all of the issued and outstanding shares of /common stock of Digital Island, Inc.. (NASDAQ: ISLD) ("Digital Island"), which expired at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on Monday, June 18, 2001.. As of the expiration of the Offer, 65, 806, 609 shares of Digital Island /common stock, representing approximately 80.0% percent of the total issued and outstanding shares, had been tendered pursuant to the Offer, including 7, 924, 361 shares tendered pursuant to notice of guaranteed delivery.. During this subsequent offering period, shares of Digital Island /common stock will be accepted and promptly paid for as they are tendered.
Digital Island - company profile on STORAGEsearch.com
find storage products, manufacturers and articles on STORAGEsearch.com Digital Island Digital Island®, a Cable & Wireless company, is the industry's leading provider of 2Way Web Services that enable enterprises to leverage the Internet to increase the profitability of online operations, increase customer value and decrease costs.. Digital Island provides robust managed hosting, content delivery and network infrastructure and applications required to transact, deliver, and manage profitable transactions and interactions.. As a Cable & Wireless company, Digital Island operates data centers in the United States, Asia-Pacific region and Europe and has a global content delivery network that reaches more than 35 countries worldwide.. Digital Island also leverages Cable & Wireless' advanced IP network reaching 70 countries.. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco.. For more information, please visit www.digitalisland.net.
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Digital Island addresses industry need for quality of service - success stories - HP Communications
solutions for network & service providers success stories Digital Island addresses industry need for quality of service Digital Island, a global IP network, optimizes the integration of architecture and technology to accelerate the deployment of applications to local markets worldwide.. The Digital Island Applications Network bypasses the public Internet to provide the first reliable network solution for global Internet applications.. Digital Island currently has direct connections to 16 countries and 24 points of presence (POPs), with POPs added worldwide on a regular basis.. Digital Island has four strategically-located data centers in Honolulu, London, New York, and Santa Clara.. In addition, Digital Island uses an ATM backbone to reliably interconnect their data centers.. Digital Island Addresses Industry Need for Quality of Service There is currently no standard or formal definition for Quality of Service for Internet applications.. Because of Digital Island's unique global star-network architecture, the company has the capacity to offer a level of Quality of Service that is unavailable on the public Internet today.
Streamingmedia.com: Digital Island Looking to "Monetize Content"
Friday, June 16 Upcoming Shows Research Center TECHNOLOGY VERTICALS Other Related Sites Digital Island Looking to "Monetize Content" Digital Island and iBEAM unveil services at NAB that aims to help content providers make money on their streams.. By April 25, 2001 advertisement Digital Island unveiled its "Footprint Media Manager" a service that aims to help content providers monetize their content.. According to Adam Cohen, VP of media services, six of the top 10 media companies in the world are customers of Digital Island.. Cohen stressed that Digital Island isn't just about content delivery, but it offers a wide range of streaming options for its customers.. Digital Island also can provide studio production services, sponsorship help, marketing, ad insertion and more.. As part of Digital Island's Traceware service, customers will also be able to geographically control where they stream.. Customers for Digital Island Clear Channel Internet Group (CCIG) is using Footprint Media Manager to deliver its first Internet pay-per-view webcast, live and on-demand videos of the band O-Town.
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Search site for: 2Way Infrastructure For the Internet: The Key to Transacting eBusiness Digital Island, a Cable & Wireless company When is the Internet going to reach the point where companies transact enough true business instead of just distributing marketing information? Enterprises that operate on a large global scale, such as Microsoft, Sony, Sega, Cisco, ABN Amro and Compaq, have already learned to make that transition.. Rather than set up its own hosting centers in every city, Microsoft turned to Digital Island, a Cable & Wireless company, to distribute its upgrades through Cable & Wireless' Digital Island content delivery network that has thousands of servers located in cities around the world.. Cisco conducts more than $4 billion per year in Internet transactions over the Digital Island network, performing more than 130, 000 downloads per day while saving an estimated $200 million per year.. And by working with Digital Island, ABN AMRO saved 25% on the costs of hosting, networking and supporting its operations by using web services to ensure a highly secure and scalable environment for its treasury, fixed income and structured finance e-commerce applications.
Akamai wins Digital Island patent injunction | The Register
Biting the hand that feeds IT Management: Reg Shops News Services Top Stories Latest Vendor Whitepapers » » Akamai wins Digital Island patent injunction Customers not affected? By Published Tuesday 2nd July 2002 13:06 GMT Akamai was granted a permanent injunction against rival Digital Island's content delivery service by a Federal Court in Boston yesterday.. In a, Akamai welcomed the ruling said Digital Island cannot effectively operate its content delivery service without violating key aspects of a disputed patent.. However Digital Island the ruling as a "legal technicality" about a legacy part of its content delivery network.. Judge Rya Zobel has retired to establish the final wording of the injunction to be granted against Digital Island's Footprint service.. Digital Island, despite downplaying the significance of the injunction, has pledged to appeal to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Our Digital Island: Web preservation issues and solutions at the State Library of Tasmania
Our Digital Island: Web preservation issues and solutions at the State Library of Tasmania Lloyd Sokvitne, Manager, , State Library of Tasmania, 91 Murray St., Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 7000 Abstract This paper discusses the conceptual and practical issues that relate to the preservation of World Wide Web resources.. The experience of the State Library of Tasmania through its Our Digital Island preservation Web site is used to illustrate that Web preservation is practical and affordable.. Our Digital Island - WWW preservation solutions at the State Library of Tasmania Our Digital Island began as a State Library of Tasmania project to identify the issues related to Web preservation and produce a realistic set of strategies to deal with those issues.. Our Digital Island provides access to preserved Web sites through a specific Web URL containing only preserved material.
Digital Island to Expand with Sun, Inktomi
. Both Sun and Inktomi will make unspecified minority investments in Digital Island .. Inktomi already has a stake in Sandpiper Networks, which agreed to merge with Digital Island in October.. Digital Island will deploy up to 5, 000 Sun servers equipped with Inktomi's Traffic Server and content delivery suite.. These products will be incorporated into Digital Island's existing network of 1, 200 carrier-grade servers running Sandpiper's Footprint algorithm, which transparently directs end users to the best performing site on the network.. "Inktomi's expanded strategic agreement with Digital Island represents an important advance in our mission to scale the Internet, and further establishes Traffic Server as the de facto network cache standard, " said David Peterschmidt, president and CEO of Inktomi.. "The combination of Sun's powerful servers, Digital Island's sophisticated global network, and Inktomi's infrastructure software creates an incredible platform to help businesses aggressively leverage the Internet." Benefits to NSPs of co-locating the servers include: Reduced network backbone and peering costs by keeping content on their network Increased attraction and retention of new subscribers through faster and more reliable end-user experience.
Digital Island Launches 2Way Web Services
. • • • For more stories on: • • • • • • • • • • October 4, 2001 Digital Island Launches 2Way Web Services By San Francisco-based content delivery network Digital Island Inc.. The new offering is called 2Way Web Services and, at a time when companies' wallets are considerably lighter than they were two years ago when Digital Island's CDN service footprint was great, it is designed to host and manage Web infrastructure services for enterprises.. Firms will embrace this offering, Digital Island hopes, because they will be able to increase the profitability and performance while shaving the cost of their online operations.. Digital Island, which became a wholly-owned Cable & Wireless subsidiary August 31, plans to mount its new services on its new parent's IP backbone and will manage its hosting facilities.. 2Way Web is separated into three packages -- one for transactions, one for content delivery and one for content management -- all of which aim to serve businesses audio and video media much the way Digital Island served them when it jockeyed for CDN delivery dominance with Akamai Technologies Inc.