Acopia Networks Names Tim Pitcher Vice President of International Sales; Former Network Appliance Vice President of Global Accounts Joins as Growth Accelerates in EMEA, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.

LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Networks(R), the leader in high-performance, enterprise file virtualization, announced today the appointment of storage industry sales veteran, Tim Pitcher, to the position of vice president, international sales. Pitcher brings more than 20 years of experience driving rapid worldwide sales growth for market-leading technology companies, with particular expertise in enterprise storage. He joins Acopia from Network Appliance where he led Northern EMEA sales efforts, increasing revenues from $10M to $200M during his tenure. Pitcher will report directly to Christopher P. Lynch, president and chief executive officer of Acopia.

In this newly created position, Pitcher will be responsible for defining the company's international sales strategy, building Acopia's growing direct and indirect sales channels, and expanding Acopia's sales efforts in Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA), Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

"We're very pleased to have attracted an executive of Tim's caliber and experience setting international sales strategy, developing international sales organizations, and driving international sales results," said Lynch. "Acopia's business is growing rapidly in EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Latin American markets, as enterprise customers across the globe deploy our solutions to reduce the cost and complexity of storage environments. Tim's talents will be an invaluable asset as we expand to meet the market demand for our products."

"In my talks with customers, the recurring theme I heard again and again was the burgeoning need for solutions to manage the growth, complexity, and cost of globally distributed, unstructured, file-based data. Clearly, traditional approaches are not meeting the challenge," said Pitcher. "Acopia solutions change the way enterprises manage file data -- offering automatic, policy-driven migration, tiering, load balancing, and replication across multi-vendor storage environments. As a result, customers are dramatically reducing expenses and accelerating business workflow in the process." He continued, "I am delighted to be on board."

Prior to Acopia, Pitcher spent over eight years in various management roles at Network Appliance. He joined Network Appliance in 1999 as its first UK sales director, and later served as vice president of sales for Northern EMEA and vice president of global account sales. Earlier, he spent six years at Sun Microsystems in various senior sales management roles. Tim also spent two years managing partner sales at Hewlett-Packard.

About Acopia Networks

Acopia Networks is the leader in high-performance, enterprise file virtualization. Its family of Adaptive Resource Switches (ARX) 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 switches help 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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