Inktomi Has A Busy DayInktomi Has A Busy Day

Inktomi acquires media publishing company, ships new products, and partners with eRoom Technology and Netegrity.

information Staff, Contributor

July 17, 2001

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Angling to get in near the ground floor of the emerging corporate content distribution market, Inktomi Corp. Tuesday acquired one company in the field, partnered with two others, and launched several products.

Inktomi launched a product based on technology picked up with the eScene acquisition. The Inktomi Media Publisher is used to catalog, index, and publish corporate multimedia content.

Inktomi also partnered with eRoom Technology Inc. and Netegrity Inc. in efforts to ensure that Inktomi's content distribution products work with eRoom's digital workplace products and Netegrity's security products for content distribution networks.

Also, Inktomi launched Traffic Core and Traffic Edge software products, as well as the Inktomi Search Software module and the Inktomi Traffic Controller for managing content networks.

The steps are intended to firmly establish Inktomi in the market for products used in corporate content distribution networks, which companies will use to deliver live or archived multimedia content to employees or outside parties.

Currently, the market for content distribution software and equipment used in corporate networks is essentially nonexistent, but vendors such as Inktomi need to get established so they'll be ready when the market develops, says Lawrence Orans, senior analyst with Gartner. If the company is to compete with a vendor--such as Cisco--that's considerably larger and has far more salespeople, Orans says, "It's important for Inktomi in the next 18 months to get a significant installed base in content distribution networks." Other vendors with rival content distribution products include CacheFlow, InfoLibria, and Network Appliance.

Within that 18-month period, says Orans, it will become more commonplace for large corporations to be implementing large content distribution networks that they'll use for delivering live or on-demand audio and video content, such as training materials or company speeches, to branch and regional offices. Gartner estimates that by 2006 about 80% of large corporations will have such networks in place, according to Orans.

With the exception of the Inktomi Search Software module, which is available now, the products will be available by the end of September. Prices for the products won't be released until then.

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