Acopia Joins StorageNetworking.org Initiative.Will Help Spearhead Efforts to Educate Users on the Topic of File Virtualization See storage virtualization. LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Networks([R]), Inc., the leader in high-performance intelligent file virtualization, today announced that it has joined the StorageNetworking.org initiative at The University of California's Information Storage Industry Center (ISIC ISIC International Student Identity Card ISIC Information Storage Industry Center ISIC International Standard Industrial Classification ISIC International Symposium on Intelligent Control (IEEE) ISIC Immediate Superior In Command ) to help further StorageNetworking.org's mission to educate data storage technology users. "We are delighted to add Acopia to our growing list of influential industry sponsors," said Ron Durbin, industry relations director, ISIC. "Their expertise in the relatively new and increasingly critical area of data storage - 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. - will be a great addition to our knowledge base." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the recent TheInfoPro (TIP), Wave 8 Storage Management Fortune 1000 Study, Acopia is "edging out" its competition in the file virtualization space. The list of competitors included such companies as Network Appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything , Microsoft, Cisco, Brocade, and others. The study also showed file virtualization is now at the top of TheInfoPro's Storage Technology Heat Index[TM] - an effective measure of users' spending and implementation plans based on interviews with Fortune 1000 IT professionals. "A most interesting takeaway from the survey is the obvious and pressing need for education in the space," said Kirby Wadsworth, senior vice president of marketing and business development, Acopia. "It's telling that file virtualization is at the top of the heat index, yet when asked which vendor they currently use for file virtualization, a large number of respondents listed a vendor that does not, in fact, offer file virtualization today." "We are delighted to join with StorageNetworking.org, who in addition to the countless number of data storage end users, counts the Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ), among its members," he continued. "Who better to help spearhead this education process?" To view a rich media presentation of TIP's Wave 8 Storage Management Fortune 1000 Report please visit: http://www.brainshark.com/theinfopro/storw8_smr_f1000_pr. About the StorageNetworking.org Initiative StorageNetworking.org is a university-based, non-profit initiative created and managed by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic non-profit organization in the United States. It was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., then-President and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Information Storage Industry Center (ISIC) at the University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. . Its mission is to assess and address the educational needs of data storage technology users. The initiative currently supports a network of local and regional storage networking user groups (or SNUGs), so that data management professionals can exchange information with their peers and other knowledge experts. It also manages an online resource portal that provides access to user group resources and industry-specific educational opportunities. For more information, go to http://www.StorageNetworking.org. About the ISIC The Information Storage Industry Center (ISIC) at the University of California, San Diego is a research program studying the business and economic aspects of the data storage industry. Established in 1998 as an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Center, ISIC conducts research on all segments of this rapidly evolving and highly competitive global industry. ISIC is affiliated with UCSD's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies The Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), at the University of California, San Diego, is devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, and policy education. Its research and education focus is the Pacific Region. (IR/PS IR/PS Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (University of California, San Diego) ), one of the world's top international graduate programs specializing in the Pacific Rim. For more information on the ISIC, visit http://isic.ucsd.edu. About Acopia Networks Acopia Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance intelligent file virtualization. Its family of ARX systems 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, and replication across multi-vendor storage environments, the ARX systems help IT executives to reduce management overhead and accelerate business workflow. For further information about Acopia's products and services, please visit www.acopia.com, call 978-513-2900 (US) / 49-89-944-90-165 (Europe), or email info@acopia.com. [c] 2007 Acopia Networks, Inc. Acopia is a trademark of Acopia Networks. All other brands, products, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of the companies with which they are associated. |
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