Digital Island Provides GlobalFulfillment.com With Fast and Secure Infrastructure for E-Fulfillment Services

Business Wire, May 8, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2000

GlobalFulfillment.com Uses Digital Island to Process Online

Transactions for Major Corporations, Including

Time Warner, Blockbuster, Tower Records

Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD), a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network, announced today that GlobalFulfillment.com, a leading provider of international product fulfillment solutions for online retailers, is using its fast, reliable and secure infrastructure to process Internet commerce transactions.

GlobalFulfillment.com provides commerce solutions -- order processing, real-time credit card authorization, sourcing, order settlement and distribution -- for major online retailers around the world, including Time Warner, Blockbuster, Tower Records, Coles Myer, Trans World Entertainment, CelebStreet.com and Granada Television. With Digital Island's hosting and network services, GlobalFulfillment.com can guarantee these leading online retail sites that their customers' transactions are quickly and securely executed over a global and scalable infrastructure built specifically to manage commerce transactions.

"GlobalFulfillment.com selected Digital Island's network services to deliver rapid connectivity to all parts of the globe. Globalization is key to the growth of e-commerce, a challenge we are resolving through this relationship," said Phil Wilkerson, CTO of GlobalFulfillment.com. "Our clients operate some of the world's best-known e-Stores, so it is critical that we deliver an excellent user experience regardless of where or when the transaction takes place."

"Digital Island's e-Business Delivery Network guarantees companies a fast and reliable environment for interactive commerce," said Ruann F. Ernst, chairman and CEO of Digital Island. "Digital Island's global infrastructure and GlobalFulfillment.com's robust back-end engine are a powerful combination for e-Businesses seeking to establish a leadership role in the new economy."

GlobalFulfillment.com is using Digital Island's TotalHost(TM) packages. The TotalHost service is an all-inclusive solution for outsourcing day-to-day operating systems and hardware administration. Designed for NT and Solaris(TM) environments, this package includes 24x7 application monitoring, performance optimization and security services for a production-ready environment designed to deliver maximum uptime all the time.

GlobalFulfillment.com is the leading provider of international product fulfillment solutions for online retailers. The company's proprietary SmartHub(TM) technology instantly assigns and coordinates international shipping points, with real-time order tracking, advanced management reporting and variable price points specific to each global market. GlobalFulfillment.com provides 24-hour email, phone and fax support in seven languages and transactional capabilities in 160 currencies, and is the only e-fulfillment provider with distribution centers around the world, including the U.S., Japan, Australia, Mexico, South America and throughout Europe (France, Holland, Spain and UK). www.globalfulfillment.com.

Digital Island(R) is a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate content delivery, hosting and intelligent networking to give the ultimate consumer a superior experience. Strategically located Data Centers in the United States, Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 25 countries. In addition, Digital Island operates a network of more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets. This network is expected to grow to more than 6,000 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco. www.digitalisland.net.

Important Notice

This release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, include but are not limited to: the company's short operating history which makes it difficult to predict its future results of operations; the company's history of operating losses and expected future losses which could impede its ability to address the risks and difficulties encountered by companies in new and rapidly evolving markets; the company's future operating results could fluctuate which may cause volatility or a decline in the price of the company's stock; the possibility that the company may not be able to price its services above the overall cost of bandwidth causing its financial results to suffer; and other factors detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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