WebTrends Releases Server Cluster Reporting Solution for High-Traffic Web Sites; Patent-pending ClusterTrends Technology is Now Available as Add-on To WebTrends Enterprise Suite

Business Wire, August 17, 1998

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 1998--WebTrends Corporation, the leader and pioneer in enterprise management of Internet/Intranet servers and firewalls, today released the WebTrends Server Cluster Add-On for the WebTrends Enterprise Suite, the only product on the market specially designed to report on visitor's traffic and performance of high-end web sites running on a server cluster.

The Server Cluster Add-On enhances the WebTrends Enterprise Suite by adding to it the patent-pending ClusterTrends(tm) technology that assures accurate site traffic reporting and technical performance analysis across clusters of 2 to 100 web servers.

"The WebTrends Enterprise Suite now provides the fastest, most accurate reporting of visitors traffic across a web site operated by a server cluster, as well as performance analysis and troubleshooting reports of each individual server in the cluster," said Eli Shapira, CEO of WebTrends Corporation. "Most web traffic analysis solutions do not support server clusters and return inaccurate data when analyzing sites running on a cluster of servers. We developed unique technology for capturing this data and added cluster reports that are critical for both marketing managers and administrators operating these sites."

WebTrends Server Cluster Add-On

The WebTrends Server Cluster Add-On extends the capacity of the WebTrends Enterprise Suite, taking advantage of the full feature set, including real-time reporting, Scheduler, Filters, and much more. WebTrends Server Cluster Add-On simultaneously analyzes multiple log files created by web server clusters, automatically consolidating the data to provide accurate and unique reports using the ClusterTrends technology. New report tables and graphs provide information specific to server clusters, such as:

-- Geographic Origin of Visitors, by Server, showing how well a

redirector distributes requests to servers that are installed in different geographic locations

-- Bandwidth (in MB) by Server, showing how well the load is

balanced across the servers

-- Pages Not Found, per Server, helping insure that mirroring

software is accurate

The WebTrends Enterprise Suite with the WebTrends Server Cluster Add-On can be installed on any Windows NT system. The minimum system requirements for a server cluster with 10 servers are a 200Mhz Pentium with 8 gigabytes disk drive and 256 MB of memory.

Pricing and Availability

WebTrends Server Cluster Add-On is available direct from WebTrends by phone or via the web site. You must have the WebTrends Enterprise Suite (US$1499) to install the WebTrends Server Cluster Add-On. The WebTrends Server Cluster Add-On is licensed per the number of servers that comprise the cluster. The following pricing is for one installation of the WebTrends Server Cluster. Server Cluster Add-Ons are priced at US$2,000 per server and are sold in packages ranging from $2000 to $100,000. Thirty days of free technical support are included with the purchase. A subscription that provides upgrades and technical support for one year is 20% of the purchase cost.

The Company

WebTrends Corporation develops premier enterprise management solutions for Internet, intranet, and extranet servers and firewalls. Founded in 1993, the company is based in Portland, Oregon, and is privately held. WebTrends products include the WebTrends Log Analyzer, the WebTrends Professional Suite, WebTrends for Firewalls and VPNs, products that are used and praised by thousands of ISPs and corporate, government, and educational institutions, including Infoseek, AT&T, Intel (Nasdaq:INTC), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), MCI, Micron, Novell, REI, Westinghouse, Symantec, and the US House of Representatives. WebTrends products have received over 26 international awards, including PC Magazine Editors' Choice, Software Publishers Association Codie Award Finalist, VARBusiness Recommends, Internet World's Best of the Test, PC Week's IT Excellence Award, and Best of LAN Times.

WebTrends Partners

WebTrends' many strategic partners include Check Point Software (Nasdaq:CHKPF), Computer Associates (NYSE:CA), Lotus Development (NYSE:IBM), Netscape Communications (Nasdaq:NSCP), Novell (Nasdaq:NOVL), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL), and Verio (Nasdaq:VRIO)

WebTrends is a trademark of WebTrends Corporation. All brands or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products and services of, their respective owners.

    CONTACT:  WebTrends Corporation
               Kate McPherron, 503/294-7025 x 208
               katem@webtrends.com
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