BW2114 SEP 08,2000 5:33 PACIFIC 08:33 EASTERN ( BW)(MA-NAVISITE/COMPAQ)(NAVI)(CPQ) NaviSite Enters Alliance With Compaq for Managed Storage Offering; Customers Offered Rapid Access to Managed Solutions Based On Compaq Storage Systems Business/Technology Editors ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2000--NaviSite, Inc. (Nasdaq: NAVI), a leading provider of managed application hosting services, today announced that the company has entered an alliance with Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) to deliver a complete web hosting solution integrated with managed storage. NaviSite's comprehensive approach to providing managed storage services and extensive experience in providing value-added management services combined with Compaq's high-availability StorageWorks systems enables customers to find a complete solution with a single point of contact. NaviSite's managed services extend from configuration and installation all the way through ongoing support and management. NaviSite will provide these services for Compaq's StorageWorks storage solutions. Benefits of the Compaq Storage product line include flexible configurations, heterogeneous/homogeneous shared storage and SAN connectivity. In addition, Compaq's modern, modular standards based architecture is ideal for the price/performance needs of Internet enabled businesses. The combination of NaviSite's extensive management expertise with storage solutions yields a high-availability, end-to-end solution to suit a variety of customers' needs. "Compaq is a proven leader in storage utility innovation," said Howard Elias, vice president and general manager, Compaq's Storage Products Group. "Compaq's new alliance with NaviSite expands customers' options, meeting the needs of customers who desire a managed storage solution integrated with a complete web-based offering." Compaq took the first steps in delivering storage as a utility service that can be accessed reliably and transparently by users in 1998 with the introduction of Enterprise Network Storage Architecture (ENSA). This forward-thinking architecture was required to deliver the vision of the storage utility - providing innovative topologies, tools and the roadmap to allow storage of any type to be networked together. ENSA has transformed the storage industry by creating an environment that allows a single storage repository to extend to any location in the world - vastly simplifying data management with a worldwide utility storage system. The benefits for customers are options enabling them to focus on building their business without the added expense and complexity of managing their storage as well. "We have worked closely with Compaq in providing our managed hosting services and it is natural to extend this partnership to storage," said Joel Rosen, president and CEO of NaviSite, Inc. "We look forward to working closely with Compaq to not only provide a complete solution to meet customer needs but also to continue to bring innovation to the storage marketplace." According to Dataquest, the storage utility market will grow to over $8 billion by 2003. NaviSite is addressing this market opportunity through its Managed Storage Solutions. As part of these solutions NaviSite will install and configure storage systems, provide monitoring and `break-fixes', and perform rapid data recovery and comprehensive mirroring services to enable the customers to conduct business continuance practices without taking critical data offline, which is unacceptable in a 24x7 internet enviornment. About NaviSite, Inc. NaviSite, Inc. is a leading provider of outsourced Web hosting and application services for companies conducting mission-critical business on the Internet. The Company's goal is to help customers focus on their core competencies by outsourcing the management and hosting of mission critical Web sites and applications. NaviSite is a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMGI with minority investment from Microsoft Corporation. NaviSite's SiteHarbor(R) solutions provide secure, reliable, co-location and high-performance hosting services, including high-performance Internet access, and high-availability server management solutions through load balancing, clustering, mirroring and storage services. In addition, NaviSite's enhanced management services, beyond basic co-location and hosting, are designed to meet the expanding needs of businesses as their Web sites and Internet applications become more complex and as their needs for outsourcing all aspects of their online businesses intensify. The Company's application services, which include application hosting, management and rental, provide cost-effective access to, as well as rapid deployment and reliable operation of, business-critical applications, including managed services for streaming media. For more information about NaviSite, please visit www.navisite.com or by phone on the East Coast call 888-298-8222, on the West Coast call 888-755-5525. NaviSite is headquartered at 400 Minuteman Road, Andover, MA 01810. About Compaq Compaq Computer Corporation, a Fortune Global 100 company, is the largest supplier of computing systems in the world. Compaq designs, develops, manufactures and markets hardware, software, solutions, and services, including industry-leading enterprise computing solutions, fault-tolerant business-critical solutions, and communications products, commercial desktop and portable products, and consumer PCs. Compaq products and services are sold in more than 200 countries directly to businesses, through a network of authorized Compaq marketing partners, and directly to businesses and consumers through Compaq's e-commerce Web site at http://www.compaq.com. Compaq markets its products and service primarily to customers from the business, home, government and education sectors. Customer support and information about Compaq and its products and services are available at http://www.compaq.com. SiteHarbor is a registered trademark of NaviSite, Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. This release contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations or beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions about future events, and these statements are subject to important factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release address a variety of subjects including, for example, the expected benefits resulting from the agreement between NaviSite and Compaq and the expected functionality of the combination of NaviSite's and Compaq's technologies and products. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements: the risk that NaviSite's products and technologies will not successfully combine with those of Compaq and increased competition and technological changes in the markets in which NaviSite and Compaq compete. For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the filings made by each of NaviSite and CMGI with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K of each of NaviSite and CMGI for the most recently ended fiscal year. --30--el/bos* CONTACTS: NaviSite, Inc. Brenda Suarez 978.946.8660 bsuarez@navisite.com or Compaq Kelli Parsons 281.518.6278 kelli.parsons@compaq.com or NaviSite, Inc. David Roy 978.946.8643 droy@navisite.com or Beaupre & Co. Public Relations, Inc. Darby Johnson 603.559.5809 djohnson@beaupre.com KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS HARDWARE INTERNET NETWORKING SOFTWARE MARKETING AGREEMENTS