Acopia Customer, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Named Finalist for Best Practices in Storage Award.Recognized in Category of "Innovation and Promise" for its Pioneering Deployment of Intelligent File Storage Virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Networks([R]), Inc., the leader in high-performance intelligent file virtualization See storage virtualization. , today announced that its customer The Colonial Williamsburg Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. Colonial Williamsburg consists of many of the buildings that formed the original colonial capital of Williamsburg in James City County from 1699 to 1780, with all traces of later Foundation, the world's largest living history museum, has been named a finalist for Storage Networking World's "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program, in the category of "Innovation and Promise." The twice annual awards program identifies and acknowledges excellence among users of storage technology. Finalists will be honored at the Storage Networking World Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. conference during a Gala Evening and Awards Ceremony held on April 18, 2007, and will also be recognized on the event Website and in an event press release. "The organizations and professionals selected to be finalists in Storage Networking World's 2007 'Best Practices in Storage' Awards Program have demonstrated to be at the forefront of managing today's storage technology," said Ron Milton, executive vice president, Computerworld. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation nomination detailed its recent deployment of a file storage virtualization solution, featuring clustered Acopia ARX systems, to support its data tiering, load balancing, and data replication for disaster recovery (DR) efforts. Initially, the Foundation leveraged Acopia's flexible file placement policies to transparently migrate data across its heterogeneous network-attached storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) environment. It then established information lifecycle management Information Lifecycle Management refers to a wide-ranging set of strategies for administering storage systems on computing devices. Specifically, four categories of storage strategies may be considered under the auspices of ILM. (ILM) policies to automate the movement of data - primarily media files used in conjunction with its tourism promotional activities and PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, television program production - across multiple storage tiers to lower storage costs, improve performance, and free-up space in its Quota Trees (Qtrees) which had reached full capacity and were at risk for denying writes and/or producing other errors. "It is indeed a great honor to have been nominated and now recognized for our recent file storage virtualization implementation," said Sean Maisey, manager, IT Operations and Engineering, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. "By implementing the Acopia file storage virtualization solution, we were able to free-up significant capacity on our Tier 1 NAS filers, as well as implement automated ILM policies to ensure capacity always remains at an acceptable level. In fact, we have now been able to eliminate the need for new storage capacity, which we had estimated at $300,000 - $400,000." Maisey continued, "Bottom line, the ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). was immediate and measurable - but perhaps just as important, the solution has granted us freedom of choice, in that we're not locked into any one vendor. While we are happy with our NAS vendor today, if tomorrow their technology, pricing, and/or service levels do not meet our requirements, we can easily switch to another platform." "The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a true 'pioneer' in every sense of the word," said Kirby Wadsworth, senior vice president of marketing and business development, Acopia Networks. "They wisely recognized that more traditional storage solutions would not meet their data tiering, load balancing, and data replication for disaster recovery requirements. They then turned to a more innovative and promising solution - file storage virtualization, featuring Acopia technology as its basis - and the results speak for themselves." He continued, "We are proud and delighted that they have been named a finalist for Storage Networking World's "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program; and we wish them the best of luck." Further information regarding The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation can be found at: http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/visit/planYourVisit/revcity/. Further information regarding Storage Networking World, Spring 2007, can be found at: www.snwusa.com. About Computerworld Computerworld is recognized worldwide as the premier source for news, information and opinion on the critical technology and management issues affecting senior technology professionals. Computerworld's award-winning weekly publication, Computerworld.com Web site, focused conference series and custom research, form the hub of the world's largest (58-edition) global IT media network. In the past five years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 awards, including the 2004 and 2006 Magazine of the Year Award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors You can improve this article by adding links to related material, within the existing text. After links have been created, remove this message. For more information, see the . CIMS Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies (Rochester Institute of Technology) CIMS Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry Spring 2006). Computerworld is on the Web at www.computerworld.com. 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(Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. , CSO (Chief Security Officer) The person in charge of all staff members who are responsible for promulgating, enforcing and administering security policies for all systems within an enterprise or division. , Computerworld, GamePro, InfoWorld, Network World and PC World. The company features the largest network of technology-specific Web sites, with more than 400 around the world. IDG is also a leading producer of more than 170 computer-related events worldwide, including Storage Networking World[R], Premier 100[R], LinuxWorld Conference & Expo[R], Macworld Conference & Expo, DEMO[R] and IDC Directions. IDC provides global market research and advice through offices in 50 countries. Company information is available at http://www.idg.com. About Acopia Networks Acopia Networks is the leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization. Solutions based on Acopia's FreedomFabric[TM] network operating system An operating system that is designed for network use. Normally, it is a complete operating system with file, task and job management; however, with some earlier products, it was a separate component that ran under the OS; for example, LAN Server required OS/2, and LANtastic required DOS. software help customers manage the growth, complexity, and cost of unstructured, globally distributed, file-based information. By providing automatic, policy-driven, data migration, tiering, load balancing, snapshots, and replication across multi-vendor storage environments, Acopia helps IT executives to reduce management overhead and accelerate business workflow. For further information about Acopia's products and services, please visit its Website at www.acopia.com, call 978-513-2900 (US) / 49-89-944-90-165 (Europe) or email info@acopia.com. [c] 2007 Acopia Networks, Inc. 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