ON24 Uses Network Appliance Servers

Network Appliance (http://www.netapp.com) announced that ON24 ( http://www.on24.com) has chosen to use the NetApp server for its streaming video and audio content distribution.

ON24 has deployed two NetApp F740 filers, Network Appliance's midrange file server that scales up to 900GB of storage capacity. One filer resides in the company's California office, the other in the New York office.

The servers access data including streaming content viewed using Microsoft Windows Media and RealNetworks G2.

"NetApp filers give us the scalability, performance and reliability we need to rapidly deliver streaming video and audio to our users," said Sharat Sharan, president and CEO, ON24 Inc. "Investors depend on us for complete and instantaneous financial information. The filers help ensure we can store and serve that information in a timely way so ON24 users can make critical investment decisions. "

"Network Appliance is an ideal solution for companies like ON24 that stream multimedia financial content to sophisticated customers over the Web," said Larry Kubo, vice president of marketing, Network Appliance, Inc. "We look forward to continuing to deliver the storage technology they need to keep pace with the data management demands in the financial "personalcast" market they're pioneering."

Network Appliance, makes file servers and caches for Internet data. NetApp's makes caches, called NetCache and file servers, called filers.