The core vision stands today, but has evolved along with technology. To lock in the vision, Digital Island looked to established companies to help fill in the technological gaps. In October 1999 they merged with Sandpiper Networks, a leading provider of content delivery solutions. In the deal, Digital Island adopted Footprint, a patent-pending technology containing sophisticated alogorithms that monitor the Internet. Footprint lets Digital Island locate and navigate around the congestion points to deliver content to end users as quickly as possible.
Footprint also determines the best routing for the user's response.
The Strategic Alliance Digital Island is in a unique position because they have data centers in multiple locations worldwide and they have to manage many of those locations remotely. Their business also requires that they provide file downloading and audio and video streaming in a highly secure environment. The company knew that NextEdge would help take Digital Island to the next level, but they needed a platform that could handle these requirements. They looked to Sun for the answer. It provided the right features, price, performance, and reliability that we needed.