Acopia Networks Joins with Premier Industry Analyst Firm and Enterprise End User to Discuss File Virtualization.

On-Demand Webcast Offers Solutions for Managing File Growth

One Lucky Viewer to Win a Trip for Two to Visit Colonial Williamsburg's Famed Historic Area - First 25 Viewers to Receive Copy of the Peabody Award-Winning DVD "Liberty!"

LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Networks[R], Inc., the world's leading provider of high-performance, intelligent file virtualization solutions, today announced the availability of a Webcast entitled, "Managing Storage Growth with Intelligent File Virtualization" featuring expert commentary from Dave Russell, research vice president, Gartner, Sean Maisey, manager, IT operations and engineering, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and Kirby Wadsworth, senior vice president of marketing and business development, Acopia.

Starting off the program, Gartner's Russell offers a definition of file virtualization, and discusses the key IT and business challenges addressed by file virtualization technology.

"Today, customers recognize the significant challenge of managing file data growth. Primary areas of concern include provisioning, migration, and managing the data lifecycle," commented Russell. "File storage virtualization promises to simplify management, improve availability, and increase utilization while controlling costs." He continued, "We expect to see file virtualization adoption increase because users are rapidly discovering the benefits it delivers."

Maisey follows with a first-hand account of how file virtualization has improved his enterprise IT environment. At the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the world's largest living history museum, Maisey and his team recently deployed an Acopia file virtualization solution to support its data tiering, load balancing, and data replication for disaster recovery (DR) efforts.

"We recognized some time ago that we would soon reach the maximum capacity allowable for our existing network-attached storage assets. We needed a solution that would optimize existing resources, without requiring a significant capital expenditure in new storage capacity," Maisey explains. "We chose the Acopia solution because of its unique ability to utilize intelligent policies to automate lifecycle management of our data without disrupting users. The Acopia solution has delivered exactly as promised."

The program concludes with Wadsworth discussing the power of intelligent file virtualization.

"Today, companies struggle with the need to reduce the costs and complexity associated with virtualization to simplify the management of burgeoning file data. They are running out of capacity and growing more and more frustrated with the limitations imposed upon them by their current storage vendors," said Wadsworth. "Intelligent file virtualization is gaining rapid acceptance because it delivers permanent relief."

In conjunction with the launch of the Webcast, Acopia announced today that one lucky viewer that registers and watches the program before July 31, 2007 will be awarded a trip for two to visit Colonial Williamsburg's famed historic area (terms and conditions apply). In addition, the first 25 viewers will receive a copy of the Peabody award-winning DVD, "Liberty!"

The Webcast is available now, on-demand, at: http://www.acopia.com/revolution.

Further information on The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation can be found at: http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.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 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 http://www.acopia.com, call 978-513-2900 (US) / 49-89-944-90-165 (Europe) or email [e-mail].

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