Acopia Networks Extends Leadership in Network File Virtualization with Release of 2.0 Products; Adds the Ability to Build File Server Clusters and Distributed Storage Grids.

LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Networks, the innovator of Adaptive Resource Networking, today announced the availability of version 2.0 of its ARX(TM) products. Built upon its award-winning first version, release 2.0 adds unique capabilities to build high-performance clusters of leading file servers and to scale its file virtualization services across global enterprises with distributed data centers.

"As customers achieve dramatic performance and manageability improvements with our products, they are quickly broadening the scope of deployment to a larger set of resources across global enterprises," said Brendon Howe, VP of marketing at Acopia Networks. "Version 2.0 delivers new capability in scaling file virtualization, far beyond the capabilities of appliance-based approaches."

Acopia's version 2.0, which runs on all three of the ARX platforms, further extends its leadership position in the file virtualization product segment. New features provided in this release include:

--Global network file services - the industry's only enterprise-wide namespace for files, extending the virtualization benefits across multiple switches and sites. The Global Presentation Namespace supports non-disruptive operational failover between data centers to greatly enhance the backup attributes of existing file servers;

--Real-time performance load balancing - enhanced file server clustering features of the ARX that build a "grid" of file servers to dynamically load balances data access, greatly increasing application performance while providing best-possible utilization of existing file servers;

--Ease of configuration and management - new utilities to allow customers to quickly deploy and manage services. The new products are: ARN-Manager, a graphical user interface application to greatly simplify the configuration and management of ARX services; and ARN-Site Analyzer, a site analysis tool that inventories the existing file servers and data to report on the opportunities to improve performance and manageability when deploying the ARX.

"We use Acopia's products to dramatically reduce our back up times, greatly increase our operational failover between data centers, and significantly reduce the time we spend manually managing storage capacity," said Yury Gutgarts, CIO of Archive Systems. "These innovative 2.0 features will further enable us to extend the value across our distributed enterprise."

"Our second generation products further extend Acopia's vision of adding resource intelligence into the network to build adaptive resource clusters that are able to scale on demand," said Christopher P. Lynch, CEO of Acopia. "Our unique ability to better utilize and scale existing servers and storage has been the key to our continued customer growth and business momentum."

Version 2.0 for the ARX-500, ARX-1000 and ARX-6000 is available this month.

About Archive Systems, Inc.

Established in 1991, Archive Systems, Inc. is the premier Document Process Outsourcing (DPO) provider, offering production document scanning, Web-based document imaging, workflow automation and off-site hard copy records storage services. Archive DPO is a completely outsourced, turnkey solution for both paper and electronic records. Archive DPO integrates all of the key components into one proven, comprehensive solution - managing the complete document lifecycle from Source-to-Shred, through a single vendor relationship. For more information, please visit www.archivesystems.com.

About Acopia Networks

Acopia Networks is the innovator of Adaptive Resource Networking products, a new class of file switches that uniquely solve the problem of managing unstructured data in the global enterprise. Acopia's Adaptive Resources Switches (ARX) allow customers to improve performance and better utilize existing file server infrastructure. The products also provide non-disruptive data replication, migration, and capacity balancing across multiple NAS devices, thereby reducing management overhead and accelerating business workflow in the process. Information about Acopia's products and services can be found at http://www.acopia.com.

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