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NETWORK APPLIANCE, InterSystems TEAM UP ON HEALTHCARE

Network Appliance Inc, a leading provider of enterprise network storage solutions, and InterSystems Corporation, a leading healthcare database provider, have teamed to offer enterprise network storage solutions designed to help patient care providers improve the quality of patient services.

By working within InterSystems CACHE database environments, Network Appliance is able to offer the healthcare industry high-performance enterprise storage solutions that simplify data management and delivery while providing superior scalability, accelerated data access across healthcare networks, and a high return on investment.

"The InterSystems Network Appliance agreement has the ability to improve how healthcare industry enterprises manage, share, and protect data across their networks," said Mark Santora, senior vice president of marketing at Network Appliance. "Our goal is to aid patient care providers in their use of information technology to improve the quality of patient service, enhance medical outcomes, and reduce the cost of care."

Network Appliance builds today's most advanced information management solutions that enable fast access, integration, and sharing of the massive amounts of exponentially growing scientific data, medical imaging, and healthcare information. With the most reliable information architecture in the industry, Network Appliance storage appliances enable hospitals, radiology groups, and imaging centers to store, manage, and protect their imaging assets.

"We're excited about partnering with Network Appliance," said Robert Nagle, director of software development at InterSystems. "The combined offerings of InterSystems database and Network Appliance unified storage solutions will provide healthcare enterprises with a comprehensive storage product and service offering."

InterSystems is one of the world's leading database providers in healthcare and is recognized as a database technology innovator in transaction processing. InterSystems delivers high performance, highly scalable database products for Web and client/server applications.

About Network Appliance

Network Appliance is a world leader in unified network storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has delivered technology, product, and partner firsts that continue to drive the evolution of storage. Information about Network Appliance solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com.

About InterSystems Corporation

Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., InterSystems Corporation, www.InterSystems.com, is a leading provider of high performance database systems for Web applications, with over four million users worldwide. InterSystems' flagship product, CACHE, is a post-relational database that uniquely offers three integrated data access options: a robust object database, high performance SQL, and rich multidimensional access. CACHE enables rapid Web application development, extraordinary transaction processing speed and real time queries against transactional data. InterSystems is the leading database in healthcare, with CACHE in use at the majority of major hospitals and labs around the world, including America's 10 best hospitals as rated by U.S. News and World Report.

Contact: Jaime Le of Network Appliance Inc, 408-822-3761, jle@netapp.com.