ATLANTA, April 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Internap Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a provider of high-performance Internet infrastructure services, today announced financial results for the first quarter of 2015.

"Higher than anticipated churn, predominantly from a small number of larger data center services customers, has led us to reduce guidance for our full-year 2015 revenue. Nonetheless, our continued strategic investment in core data center services is delivering significantly stronger segment margins and enabling us to reiterate our full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance in the range of $89 million to $95 million," said Eric Cooney, President and Chief Executive Officer of Internap. "With a return to sequential revenue growth in the second quarter of 2015, we are positioned to accelerate profitable growth and are excited by the implications for long-term shareholder value."


    First Quarter 2015 Financial Summary
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                                                                                                                                                                                YoY                   QoQ

                                                                                    1Q 2015                       1Q 2014                        4Q 2014                       Growth                Growth
                                                                                    -------                       -------                        -------                       ------                ------

                  Revenues:

                                          Data center
                                          services                        $59,098                       $58,283                        $61,305                            1%                   -4%

                                         IP services               21,688                       $23,678                       $22,958                         -8%                          -6%
                                                                   ------                       -------                       -------

                                                          Total
                                                          Revenues          $80,786                       $81,961                        $84,263                           -1%                   -4%


                  Operating Expenses                            $84,905                       $86,498                       $86,517                         -2%                          -2%


                  GAAP Net Loss                                $(10,442)                    $(10,675)                     $(8,257)                         2%                         -26%


                  Normalized Net Loss(2)                        $(8,598)                     $(7,265)                     $(5,232)                       -18%                         -64%


                  Segment Profit(1)                             $47,440                       $46,201                       $48,788                          3%                          -3%

                  Segment Profit Margin             58.7%                     56.4%                        57.9%                      230 BPS                      80 BPS


                  Adjusted EBITDA                               $17,918                       $17,799                       $22,712                          1%                         -21%

                  Adjusted EBITDA Margin            22.2%                     21.7%                        27.0%                      50 BPS                      -480 BPS

Revenue


    --  Revenue totaled $80.8 million in the first quarter, a decrease of 1%
        year-over-year and 4% sequentially. The slight year-over-year decrease
        was due to lower IP revenue, partially offset by increased data center
        revenue. Sequentially, revenue declined in IP services and data center
        services.
    --  Data center services revenue totaled $59.1 million in the first quarter,
        an increase of 1% year-over-year and a decrease of 4% sequentially. The
        year-over-year increase was attributable to increased sales of core data
        center services, partially offset by decreased sales in our partner data
        centers. The sequential decrease was primarily attributable to churn
        from a small number of significant colocation and hosting customers.
    --  IP services revenue totaled $21.7 million in the first quarter, a
        decrease of 8% year-over-year and 6% sequentially. Both decreases were
        driven by per unit price declines in IP and the loss of legacy contracts
        at higher effective prices, partially offset by an increase in overall
        traffic.

Net Loss


    --  GAAP net loss was $(10.4) million, or $(0.20) per share, compared with
        $(10.7) million, or $(0.21) per share, in the first quarter of 2014 and
        $(8.3) million, or $(0.16) per share, in the fourth quarter of 2014.
    --  Normalized net loss was $(8.6) million, or $(0.17) per share, compared
        with normalized net loss of $(7.3) million, or $(0.14) per share, in the
        first quarter of 2014, and normalized net loss of $(5.2) million, or
        $(0.10) per share, in the fourth quarter of 2014.

Segment Profit and Adjusted EBITDA


    --  Segment profit totaled $47.4 million in the first quarter, a 3% increase
        compared with the first quarter of 2014 and a 3% decrease from the
        fourth quarter of 2014. Segment margin was 58.7%, an increase of 230
        basis points year-over-year and 80 basis points sequentially.
    --  Data center services segment profit totaled $34.8 million in the first
        quarter, an 8% increase compared with the first quarter of 2014 and a 1%
        decrease from the fourth quarter of 2014. Data center services segment
        margin was 58.9% in the first quarter, up 330 basis points
        year-over-year and 130 basis points sequentially. An increasing
        proportion of higher-margin services, specifically colocation sold in
        company-controlled data centers, hosting and cloud services drove data
        center services segment profit and margin higher compared with the first
        quarter of 2014. Sequentially, lower data center revenue resulted in a
        decrease in data center services segment profit.
    --  IP services segment profit totaled $12.6 million in the first quarter, a
        9% decrease compared with the first quarter of 2014 and a 6% decrease
        from the fourth quarter of 2014. IP services segment margin was 58.1% in
        the first quarter, down 20 basis points year-over-year and 60 basis
        points sequentially. Decreased IP services revenue more than offset
        lower costs, driving declines in IP services segment profit and segment
        margin.
    --  Adjusted EBITDA totaled $17.9 million in the first quarter, a 1%
        increase compared with the first quarter of 2014 and a 21% decrease from
        the fourth quarter of 2014. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 22.2% in the
        first quarter, up 50 basis points year-over-year and down 480 basis
        points sequentially. The year-over-year increase in adjusted EBITDA and
        adjusted EBITDA margin was attributable to increased segment profit in
        our data center services segment. Sequentially, seasonally higher cash
        operating expense(3) weighed on adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA
        margin.

Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement


    --  Cash and cash equivalents totaled $16.2 million at March 31, 2015. Total
        debt was $370.3 million, net of discount, at the end of the quarter,
        including $58.7 million in capital lease obligations.
    --  Cash used in operations for the three months ended March 31, 2015 was
        $1.5 million. Capital expenditures over the same period were $15.7
        million.

Business Outlook

We are providing the following guidance for full-year 2015:


    --  Revenue                                 $331 million - $337 million
    --  Adjusted EBITDA                    $89 million - $95 million
    --  Capital Expenditures               $70 million - $80 million

Recent Operational Highlights

Historical trends of key financial and operational metrics can be found in a supplementary data schedule on Internap's website at http://ir.internap.com/results.cfm.


    --  We had 11,871 customers at March 31, 2015.
    --  Internap announced the next generation of its Managed Domain Name System
        (DNS) service, which leverages 24 points of presence (POPs) across four
        continents to prevent DNS bottlenecks and increase the reliability,
        velocity and flexibility of websites and Web applications. Internap's
        enhanced Managed DNS service also includes automatic high availability
        failover to ensure that Web applications are always up and running.

    1. Segment margin and segment profit are non-GAAP financial measures which
       we define in an attachment to this press release entitled "Non-GAAP
       (Adjusted) Financial Measures." Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP
       information related to segment profit and segment margin are contained in
       the table entitled "Segment Profit and Segment Margin" in the attachment.
    2. Adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin and normalized net loss are
       non-GAAP financial measures which we define in an attachment to this
       press release entitled "Non-GAAP (Adjusted) Financial Measures."
       Reconciliations between GAAP information and non-GAAP information related
       to adjusted EBITDA and normalized net loss are contained in the tables
       entitled "Reconciliation of Loss from Operations to Adjusted EBITDA," and
       "Reconciliation of Net Loss and Basic and Diluted Net Loss Per Share to
       Normalized Net Loss and Basic and Diluted Normalized Net Loss Per Share"
       in the attachment.
    3. Cash operating expense is a non-GAAP measure which we define in an
       attachment to this press release entitled "Non-GAAP (Adjusted) Financial
       Measures."

Conference Call Information:

Internap's first quarter 2015 conference call will be held today at 5:00 p.m. ET. Listeners may connect to a webcast of the call, which will include accompanying presentation slides, on the investor relations section of Internap's web site at http://ir.internap.com/events.cfm. The call can be also accessed by dialing 866-515-9839. International callers should dial 631-813-4875. An online archive of the webcast presentation will be available for one month following the call. An audio-only replay will be accessible from Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. ET through Monday, May 4, 2015 at 855-859-2056 using replay code 28242545. International callers can listen to the archived event at 404-537-3406 with the same code.

About Internap

Internap is the high-performance Internet infrastructure provider that powers the applications shaping the way we live, work and play. Our hybrid infrastructure delivers performance without compromise - blending virtual and bare-metal cloud, hosting and colocation services across a global network of data centers, optimized from the application to the end user and backed by rock-solid customer support and a 100% uptime guarantee. Since 1996, the most innovative companies have relied on Internap to make their applications faster and more scalable. For more information, visit www.internap.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include statements related to our ability to accelerate profitable growth and our expectations for full-year 2015 revenue, adjusted EBITDA and capital expenditures. Our ability to accelerate profitable growth and our expectations for full-year 2015 revenue, adjusted EBITDA and capital expenditures are based on certain assumptions, including anticipated new product launches, leveraging of multiple routes to market, expanded brand awareness for high-performance Internet infrastructure services and customer churn levels. These assumptions may prove to be inaccurate in the future. Because such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, there are important factors that could cause Internap's actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include our ability to execute on our business strategy; the robustness of the IT infrastructure services market; our ability to achieve or sustain profitability; our ability to expand margins and drive higher returns on investment; our ability to complete expansion of company-controlled data centers within the expected timeframe; our ability to sell into new data center space; the actual performance of our IT infrastructure services; our ability to maintain current customers and obtain new ones, whether in a cost-effective manner or at all; our ability to correctly forecast capital needs, demand planning and space utilization; our ability to respond successfully to technological change and the resulting competition; the availability of services from Internet network service providers or network service providers providing network access loops and local loops on favorable terms, or at all; failure of third party suppliers to deliver their products and services on favorable terms, or at all; failures in our network operations centers, data centers, network access points or computer systems; our ability to provide or improve Internet infrastructure services to our customers; and our ability to protect our intellectual property, as well as other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these risks and uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. We undertake no obligation to update, amend or clarify any forward-looking statement for any reason.





    Press Contact:            Investor Contact:

    Mariah Torpey             Michael Nelson

    (781) 418-2404            (404) 302-9700

    internap@daviesmurphy.com ir@internap.com
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                                                                                                INTERNAP CORPORATION

                                                                              UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

                                                                                      (In thousands, except per share amounts)



                                                                                                                                        Three Months Ended March 31,
                                                                                                                                        ----------------------------

                                                                                                                                                    2015                   2014
                                                                                                                                                    ----                   ----

    Revenues:

       Data center services                                                                                                                      $59,098                $58,283

       Internet protocol (IP) services                                                                                                            21,688                 23,678
                                                                                                                                                  ------                 ------

           Total revenues                                                                                                                         80,786                 81,961
                                                                                                                                                  ------                 ------


    Operating costs and expenses:

       Direct costs of sales and services, exclusive of

          depreciation and amortization, shown below:

             Data center services                                                                                                                 24,264                 25,891

             IP services                                                                                                                           9,082                  9,869

       Direct costs of customer support                                                                                                            9,118                  8,927

       Direct costs of amortization of acquired and developed technologies                                                                         1,150                  1,461

       Sales and marketing                                                                                                                        10,283                 10,103

       General and administrative                                                                                                                 11,685                 11,398

       Depreciation and amortization                                                                                                              19,058                 17,465

       Exit activities, restructuring and impairments                                                                                                265                  1,384
                                                                                                                                                     ---                  -----


    Total operating costs and expenses                                                                                                            84,905                 86,498
                                                                                                                                                  ------                 ------


    Loss from operations                                                                                                                         (4,119)               (4,537)
                                                                                                                                                  ------                 ------



    Non-operating expenses:

       Interest expense                                                                                                                            6,865                  6,491

       Other, net                                                                                                                                  (530)                   101
                                                                                                                                                    ----                    ---

    Total non-operating expenses                                                                                                                   6,335                  6,592
                                                                                                                                                   -----                  -----


    Loss before income taxes and equity in (earnings) of

       equity-method investment                                                                                                                 (10,454)              (11,129)

    Provision (benefit) for income taxes                                                                                                              27                  (417)

    Equity in (earnings) of equity-method investment, net of taxes                                                                                  (39)                  (37)
                                                                                                                                                     ---                    ---


    Net loss                                                                                                                                   $(10,442)             $(10,675)
                                                                                                                                                ========               ========


    Basic and diluted net loss per share                                                                                                         $(0.20)               $(0.21)
                                                                                                                                                  ======                 ======


    Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing net loss per share:

        Basic and diluted                                                                                                                         51,336                 51,027
                                                                                                                                                  ======                 ======



                                                                                                                                              INTERNAP CORPORATION

                                                                                                                                 UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

                                                                                                                                                      (In thousands, except par value amounts)



                                                                                                                                                                                               March 31,             December 31,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                2015                      2014
                                                                                                                                                                                                                ----                      ----


                                                                                                           ASSETS

    Current assets:

    Cash and cash equivalents                                                                                                                                                                                $16,219                   $20,084

    Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $2,153 and $2,121, respectively                                                                                                            20,833                    19,606

    Deferred tax asset                                                                                                                                                                                           508                       633

    Prepaid expenses and other assets                                                                                                                                                                         13,218                    12,276
                                                                                                                                                                                                              ------                    ------


    Total current assets                                                                                                                                                                                      50,778                    52,599


    Property and equipment, net                                                                                                                                                                              338,711                   342,145

    Investment in joint venture                                                                                                                                                                                2,648                     2,622

    Intangible assets, net                                                                                                                                                                                    50,991                    52,545

    Goodwill                                                                                                                                                                                                 130,313                   130,313

    Deposits and other assets                                                                                                                                                                                 10,405                     9,923

    Deferred tax asset                                                                                                                                                                                         1,477                     1,637
                                                                                                                                                                                                               -----                     -----

    Total assets                                                                                                                                                                                            $585,323                  $591,784
                                                                                                                                                                                                            ========                  ========


                                                                                            LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

    Current liabilities:

    Accounts payable                                                                                                                                                                                         $21,154                   $30,589

    Accrued liabilities                                                                                                                                                                                       12,165                    13,120

    Deferred revenues                                                                                                                                                                                          6,696                     7,345

    Capital lease obligations                                                                                                                                                                                  7,641                     7,366

    Term loan, less discount of $1,482 and $1,463, respectively                                                                                                                                                1,518                     1,537

    Exit activities and restructuring liability                                                                                                                                                                1,795                     1,809

    Other current liabilities                                                                                                                                                                                  2,245                     1,590
                                                                                                                                                                                                               -----                     -----

    Total current liabilities                                                                                                                                                                                 53,214                    63,356


    Deferred revenues                                                                                                                                                                                          3,818                     3,544

    Capital lease obligations                                                                                                                                                                                 51,047                    52,686

    Revolving credit facility                                                                                                                                                                                 23,000                    10,000

    Term loan, less discount of $6,170 and $6,543 respectively                                                                                                                                               287,080                   287,457

    Exit activities and restructuring liability                                                                                                                                                                2,423                     2,701

    Deferred rent                                                                                                                                                                                             10,182                    10,583

    Deferred tax liability                                                                                                                                                                                     6,953                     7,293

    Other long-term liabilities                                                                                                                                                                                4,810                     3,828
                                                                                                                                                                                                               -----                     -----

    Total liabilities                                                                                                                                                                                        442,527                   441,448
                                                                                                                                                                                                             -------                   -------



    Commitments and contingencies

    Stockholders' equity:

    Preferred stock, $0.001 par value; 20,000 shares authorized; no shares issued

    or outstanding                                                                                                                                                                                                 -                        -

    Common stock, $0.001 par value; 120,000 shares authorized; 54,969 and 54,410 shares

    outstanding, respectively                                                                                                                                                                                     55                        54

    Additional paid-in capital                                                                                                                                                                             1,266,634                 1,262,402

    Treasury stock, at cost; 687 and 621 shares, respectively                                                                                                                                                (5,301)                  (4,683)

    Accumulated deficit                                                                                                                                                                                  (1,115,956)              (1,105,514)

    Accumulated items of other comprehensive loss                                                                                                                                                            (2,636)                  (1,923)
                                                                                                                                                                                                              ------                    ------

    Total stockholders' equity                                                                                                                                                                               142,796                   150,336
                                                                                                                                                                                                             -------                   -------

    Total liabilities and stockholders' equity                                                                                                                                                              $585,323                  $591,784
                                                                                                                                                                                                            ========                  ========




                                                                                                       INTERNAP CORPORATION

                                                                                    UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

                                                                                                          (In thousands)



                                                                                                                                              Three Months Ended March 31,
                                                                                                                                              ----------------------------

                                                                                                                                                                             2015       2014
                                                                                                                                                                             ----       ----

    Cash Flows from Operating Activities:

    Net loss                                                                                                                                                            $(10,442) $(10,675)

    Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:

       Depreciation and amortization                                                                                                                                       20,208     18,926

       Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs                                                                                                                       490        472

       Stock-based compensation expense, net of capitalized amount                                                                                                          1,579      1,941

       Equity in (earnings) of equity-method investment                                                                                                                      (39)      (37)

       Provision for doubtful accounts                                                                                                                                        400         43

       Non-cash change in capital lease obligations                                                                                                                         (760)        28

       Non-cash change in exit activities and restructuring liability                                                                                                         371      1,608

       Non-cash change in deferred rent                                                                                                                                     (401)     (736)

       Deferred taxes                                                                                                                                                          54      (658)

       Other, net                                                                                                                                                           (242)        74

    Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

       Accounts receivable                                                                                                                                                (1,724)       936

       Prepaid expenses, deposits and other assets                                                                                                                        (1,544)     (680)

       Accounts payable                                                                                                                                                   (7,652)     1,890

       Accrued and other liabilities                                                                                                                                        (903)       439

       Deferred revenues                                                                                                                                                    (256)       394

       Exit activities and restructuring liability                                                                                                                          (663)     (764)

       Other liabilities                                                                                                                                                       17          4

    Net cash flows (used in) provided by operating activities                                                                                                             (1,507)    13,205
                                                                                                                                                                           ------     ------


    Cash Flows from Investing Activities:

    Purchases of property and equipment                                                                                                                                  (14,990)  (24,756)

    Additions to acquired and developed technology                                                                                                                          (712)     (737)

    Acquisition, net of cash received                                                                                                                                           -        74

    Net cash flows used in investing activities                                                                                                                          (15,702)  (25,419)
                                                                                                                                                                          -------    -------


    Cash Flows from Financing Activities:

    Proceeds from credit agreements                                                                                                                                        13,000          -

    Principal payments on credit agreements                                                                                                                                 (750)     (750)

    Return of deposit collateral on credit agreement                                                                                                                            -     4,378

    Payments on capital lease obligations                                                                                                                                 (1,770)   (1,360)

    Proceeds from exercise of stock options                                                                                                                                 2,583        860

    Acquisition of common stock for income tax withholdings                                                                                                                 (618)     (600)

    Other, net                                                                                                                                                                979       (44)

    Net cash flows provided by by financing activities                                                                                                                     13,424      2,484
                                                                                                                                                                           ------      -----

    Effect of exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents                                                                                                                    (80)      (86)
                                                                                                                                                                              ---        ---

    Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents                                                                                                                             (3,865)   (9,816)

    Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period                                                                                                                       20,084     35,018

    Cash and cash equivalents at end of period                                                                                                                            $16,219    $25,202
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INTERNAP CORPORATION
NON-GAAP (ADJUSTED) FINANCIAL MEASURES

In addition to providing financial measurements based on accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP"), Internap has historically provided additional financial measures that are not prepared in accordance with GAAP ("non-GAAP"), including adjusted EBITDA, normalized net loss, normalized diluted shares outstanding, segment profit and segment margin. The most directly comparable GAAP equivalent to adjusted EBITDA and normalized net loss is loss from operations and net loss, respectively. The most directly comparable GAAP equivalent to normalized diluted shares outstanding is diluted common shares outstanding.

We define non-GAAP measures as follows:


    --  Adjusted EBITDA is loss from operations plus depreciation and
        amortization, loss (gain) on disposals of property and equipment, exit
        activities, restructuring and impairments, stock-based compensation and
        acquisition costs.
    --  Adjusted EBITDA margin is adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenues.
    --  Normalized net loss is net loss plus exit activities, restructuring and
        impairments, stock-based compensation and acquisition costs.
    --  Normalized diluted shares outstanding are diluted shares of common stock
        outstanding used in GAAP net loss per share calculations, excluding the
        dilutive effect of stock-based compensation using the treasury stock
        method.
    --  Normalized net loss per share is normalized net loss divided by basic
        and normalized diluted shares outstanding.
    --  Segment profit is segment revenues less direct costs of sales and
        services, exclusive of depreciation and amortization for the segment, as
        presented in the notes to our consolidated financial statements. Segment
        profit does not include direct costs of customer support, direct costs
        of amortization of acquired technologies or any other depreciation or
        amortization associated with direct costs.
    --  Segment margin is segment profit as a percentage of segment revenues.
    --  Cash operating expense is GAAP operating expense less direct cost of
        sales and services, depreciation and amortization, restructuring and
        impairments, stock-based compensation and acquisition costs.

We detail reconciliations of our non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measure in the reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP measures below. We believe that presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures provides useful information to investors regarding our results of operations.

We believe that excluding depreciation and amortization and loss on disposals of property and equipment, as well as impairments and restructuring, to calculate adjusted EBITDA provides supplemental information and an alternative presentation that is useful to investors' understanding of our core operating results and trends. Not only are depreciation and amortization expenses based on historical costs of assets that may have little bearing on present or future replacement costs, but also they are based on management estimates of remaining useful lives. Loss on disposals of property and equipment is also based on historical costs of assets that may have little bearing on replacement costs. Impairments and restructuring expenses primarily reflect goodwill impairments and subsequent plan adjustments in sublease income assumptions for certain properties included in our previously disclosed restructuring plans.

We believe that impairment and restructuring charges are unique costs that we do not expect to recur on a regular basis, and consequently, we do not consider these charges as a normal component of expenses related to current and ongoing operations.

Similarly, we believe that excluding the effects of stock-based compensation from non-GAAP financial measures provides supplemental information and an alternative presentation useful to investors' understanding of our core operating results and trends. Investors have indicated that they consider financial measures of our results of operations excluding stock-based compensation as important supplemental information useful to their understanding of our historical results and estimating our future results.

We also believe that, in excluding the effects of stock-based compensation, our non-GAAP financial measures provide investors with transparency into what management uses to measure and forecast our results of operations, to compare on a consistent basis our results of operations for the current period to that of prior periods and to compare our results of operations on a more consistent basis against that of other companies, in making financial and operating decisions and to establish certain management compensation.

INTERNAP CORPORATION
NON-GAAP (ADJUSTED) FINANCIAL MEASURES (Continued)

Stock-based compensation is an important part of total compensation, especially from the perspective of employees. We believe, however, that supplementing GAAP net loss and net loss per share information by providing normalized net loss and normalized net loss per share, excluding the effect of exit activities, restructuring and impairments, stock-based compensation and acquisition costs in all periods, is useful to investors because it enables additional and more meaningful period-to-period comparisons. We consider normalized diluted shares to be another important indicator of our overall performance because it eliminates the effect of non-cash items.

Adjusted EBITDA is not a measure of liquidity calculated in accordance with GAAP, and should be viewed as a supplement to -- not a substitute for -- our results of operations presented on the basis of GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA does not purport to represent cash flow provided by operating activities as defined by GAAP. Our statements of cash flows present our cash flow activity in accordance with GAAP. Furthermore, adjusted EBITDA is not necessarily comparable to similarly-titled measures reported by other companies.

We believe adjusted EBITDA is used by and is useful to investors and other users of our financial statements in evaluating our operating performance because it provides them with an additional tool to compare business performance across companies and across periods. We believe that:


    --  EBITDA is widely used by investors to measure a company's operating
        performance without regard to items such as interest expense, income
        taxes, depreciation and amortization, which can vary substantially from
        company-to-company depending upon accounting methods and book value of
        assets, capital structure and the method by which assets were acquired;
        and
    --  investors commonly adjust EBITDA information to eliminate the effect of
        disposals of property and equipment, impairments, restructuring and
        stock-based compensation which vary widely from company-to-company and
        impair comparability.

Our management uses adjusted EBITDA:


    --  as a measure of operating performance to assist in comparing performance
        from period-to-period on a consistent basis;
    --  as a measure for planning and forecasting overall expectations and for
        evaluating actual results against such expectations; and
    --  in communications with the board of directors, analysts and investors
        concerning our financial performance.

Our presentation of segment profit and segment margin excludes direct costs of customer support and depreciation and amortization in order to allow investors to see the business through the eyes of management. Management views direct costs of network, sales and services as generally less controllable, external costs and management regularly monitors the margin of revenues in excess of these direct costs. Similarly, we view the costs of customer support to also be an important component of costs of revenues but believe that the costs of customer support to be more within our control and to some degree discretionary as we can adjust those costs by hiring and terminating employees.

Segment margin is an important metric to our investors and analysts, as we have regularly discussed and disclosed the effects of third party vendors' pricing declines and the corresponding effect on our revenues. The presentation of segment margin highlights the impact of the pricing declines and allows investors and analysts to evaluate our revenue generation performance relative to direct costs of network, sales and services. Conversely, we have much greater latitude in controlling the compensation component of costs of revenues, represented by customer support, and we analyze this component separately from the direct external costs.

We also have excluded depreciation and amortization from segment profit and segment margin because, as noted above, they are based on estimated useful lives of tangible and intangible assets. Further, depreciation and amortization are based on historical costs incurred to build out our deployed network and the historical costs of these assets may not be indicative of current or future capital expenditures.

INTERNAP CORPORATION
NON-GAAP (ADJUSTED) FINANCIAL MEASURES (Continued)

Although we believe, for the foregoing reasons, that our presentation of non-GAAP financial measures provides useful supplemental information to investors regarding our results of operations, our non-GAAP financial measures should only be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute for, or superior to, any measure of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Use of non-GAAP financial measures is subject to inherent limitations because they do not include all the expenses that must be included under GAAP and because they involve the exercise of judgment of which charges should properly be excluded from the non-GAAP financial measure. Management accounts for these limitations by not relying exclusively on non-GAAP financial measures, but only using such information to supplement GAAP financial measures. Our non-GAAP financial measures may not be the same non-GAAP measures, and may not be calculated in the same manner, as those used by other companies.



                                                                                                                                                      INTERNAP CORPORATION

                                                                                                                                    RECONCILIATION OF LOSS FROM OPERATIONS TO ADJUSTED EBITDA


    A reconciliation of loss from operations, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, to adjusted EBITDA for each of the periods
    indicated is as follows (in thousands):


                                                                                                                                                                     Three Months Ended
                                                                                                                                                                   ------------------

                                                                                                                                                                March 31, 2015                     December 31, 2014           March 31, 2014
                                                                                                                                                                --------------                     -----------------           --------------

    Loss from operations (GAAP)                                                                                                                                                           $(4,119)                   $(2,254)                 $(4,537)

    Depreciation and amortization, including amortization of acquired and

      developed technologies                                                                                                                                                                20,208                      21,861                    18,926

    (Gain) loss on disposal of property and equipment, net                                                                                                                                    (15)                         80                         -

    Exit activities, restructuring and impairments                                                                                                                                             265                       1,518                     1,384

    Stock-based compensation                                                                                                                                                                 1,579                       1,507                     1,941

    Acquisiton costs                                                                                                                                                                             -                          -                       85

    Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP)                                                                                                                                                             $17,918                     $22,712                   $17,799
                                                                                                                                                                                           =======                     =======                   =======



                                                                                                                                                     INTERNAP CORPORATION

                                                                                                                                       RECONCILIATION OF NET LOSS AND BASIC AND DILUTED

                                                                                                                                        NET LOSS PER SHARE TO NORMALIZED NET LOSS AND

                                                                                                                                       BASIC AND DILUTED NORMALIZED NET LOSS PER SHARE


    Reconciliations of (1) net loss, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, to normalized net loss, (2) diluted shares outstanding
    used in per share calculations, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, to normalized diluted shares used in normalized per
    share outstanding calculations and (3) net loss per share, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, to normalized net loss per
    share for each of the periods indicated is as follows (in thousands, except per share data):


                                                                                                                                                                                     Three Months Ended
                                                                                                                                                                                     ------------------

                                                                                                                                                                                  March 31, 2015                   December 31, 2014           March 31, 2014
                                                                                                                                                                                  --------------                   -----------------           --------------

               Net loss (GAAP)                                                                                                                                                                           $(10,442)                   $(8,257)                 $(10,675)

               Exit activities, restructuring and impairments                                                                                                                                                  265                       1,518                      1,384

               Stock-based compensation                                                                                                                                                                      1,579                       1,507                      1,941

               Acquisition costs                                                                                                                                                                                 -                          -                        85
                                                                                                                                                                                                             ---

               Normalized net loss (non-GAAP)                                                                                                                                                              (8,598)                    (5,232)                   (7,265)


               Normalized net income allocable to participating securities (non-GAAP)                                                                                                                            -                          -                         -

               Normalized net loss available to common stockholders (non-GAAP)                                                                                                                            $(8,598)                   $(5,232)                  $(7,265)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        ========

               Participating securities (GAAP)                                                                                                                                                               1,151                       1,066                      1,105


               Weighted average shares outstanding used in per share calculation:

               Basic and diluted (GAAP)                                                                                                                                                                     51,336                      51,159                     51,027

               Add potentially dilutive securities                                                                                                                                                               -                          -                         -

               Less dilutive effect of stock-based compensation under the treasury stock method                                                                                                                  -                          -                         -
                                                                                                                                                                                                             ---

               Normalized diluted shares (non-GAAP)                                                                                                                                                         51,336                      51,159                     51,027
                                                                                                                                                                                                          ======


               Loss per share (GAAP):

               Basic and diluted                                                                                                                                                                           $(0.20)                    $(0.16)                   $(0.21)
                                                                                                                                                                                                         =======


               Normalized net loss per share (non-GAAP):

               Basic and diluted                                                                                                                                                                           $(0.17)                    $(0.10)                   $(0.14)
                                                                                                                                                                                                         =======



                                                                                                                                               INTERNAP CORPORATION

                                                                                                                                        SEGMENT PROFIT AND SEGMENT MARGIN

    Segment profit and segment margin, which does not include direct costs of customer support, direct costs of amortization of acquired
    technologies or any other depreciation or amortization, for each of the periods indicated is as follows (dollars in thousands):


                                                                                                                                       Three Months Ended
                                                                                                                                       ------------------

                                                                                                                                 March 31, 2015                           December 31, 2014         March 31, 2014
                                                                                                                                 --------------                           -----------------         --------------

    Revenues:

       Data center services:

          Core                                                                                                                                               $47,948                        $49,694                $46,348

          Partner colocation                                                                                                                                  11,150                         11,611                 11,935
                                                                                                                                                              ------                         ------                 ------

          Total data center services                                                                                                                          59,098                         61,305                 58,283

       IP services                                                                                                                                            21,688                         22,958                 23,678
                                                                                                                                                              ------                         ------

          Total                                                                                                                                               80,786                         84,263                 81,961
                                                                                                                                                              ------                         ------                 ------


    Direct cost of sales and services, exclusive of

          depreciation and amortization:

       Data center services:

          Core                                                                                                                                                16,499                         17,810                 16,988

          Partner colocation                                                                                                                                   7,765                          8,179                  8,903
                                                                                                                                                               -----                          -----                  -----

          Total data center services                                                                                                                          24,264                         25,989                 25,891

       IP services                                                                                                                                             9,082                          9,486                  9,869
                                                                                                                                                               -----

          Total                                                                                                                                               33,346                         35,475                 35,760
                                                                                                                                                              ------                         ------                 ------


    Segment Profit:

       Data center services:

          Core                                                                                                                                                31,449                         31,884                 29,360

          Partner colocation                                                                                                                                   3,385                          3,432                  3,032
                                                                                                                                                               -----                          -----                  -----

          Total data center services                                                                                                                          34,834                         35,316                 32,392

       IP services                                                                                                                                            12,606                         13,472                 13,809

          Total                                                                                                                                              $47,440                        $48,788                $46,201
                                                                                                                                                             =======                        =======                =======


    Segment Margin:

       Data center services:

          Core                                                                                                                                                 65.6%                         64.2%                 63.3%

          Partner colocation                                                                                                                                   30.4%                         29.5%                 25.4%
                                                                                                                                                                ----                           ----                   ----

          Total data center services                                                                                                                           58.9%                         57.6%                 55.6%

       IP services                                                                                                                                             58.1%                         58.7%                 58.3%
                                                                                                                                                                ----                           ----                   ----

          Total                                                                                                                                                58.7%                         57.9%                 56.4%
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