Acopia Networks to Demonstrate File Area Network (FAN) Solution at Interop Las Vegas.Acopia File Virtualization See storage virtualization. and Riverbed Wide-Area Data Services to Meet the Needs of Distributed Enterprise Customers LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Networks[R], Inc., the world's leading provider of intelligent file virtualization solutions, today announced it will demonstrate its Acopia ARX[TM] systems and FreedomFabric[TM] operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. software at Interop Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , taking place this week at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center The Mandalay Bay Convention Center is one of the largest privately owned and operated convention centers in the world. The 1 million square foot facility is owned by MGM Mirage. It is attached to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and adjacent to the Mandalay Bay Events Center. , Las Vegas, Nevada. Acopia's demonstration will take place in the booth of Riverbed Technology Riverbed is a corporation providing wide area data services (WDS). Riverbed Technology's world headquarters is located in San Francisco, California. , Inc. (Nasdaq: RVBD), the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS Wds Words WDS Wireless Distribution System (Joint Common Database) WDS Wide-area Data Services WDS Wireless Domain Services (Cisco Systems technology) WDS Wavelength Dispersive Spectroscopy ) - Booth #559. It will highlight how by combining the benefits of Acopia's file virtualization technology with Riverbed's WDS solution customers will be able to overcome the common constraints of today's highly distributed enterprises, which are typically complex, inflexible, inefficient, and growing rapidly. Customers will see how they will be able to maximize the benefits of Acopia file area network (FAN) technology, which include simplified access, unhindered unhindered Adjective not prevented or obstructed: unhindered access Adverb without being prevented or obstructed: he was able to go about his work unhindered flexibility, optimized utilization, and heterogeneous support, when combined with the acceleration provided by Riverbed's WDS solutions. "Riverbed[R] Steelhead[R] appliances accelerate the performance of applications over the WAN by five to fifty times and in some cases over a hundred times," said Venugopal Pai, senior director, alliances at Riverbed. "Together with Acopia, we can offer customers 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. and management solutions that can be easily and non-disruptively implemented across their highly distributed enterprises." "By combining Acopia virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. solutions and Riverbed Steelhead appliances, distributed enterprise customers will be able to enjoy complete freedom in terms of leveraging existing technology investments, while protecting their freedom to choose the most appropriate technology to meet future business requirements," said Kirby Wadsworth, senior vice president of marketing and business development, Acopia. "Together, we hope to solve one of today's most prevalent IT challenges - that is, how to regain control over the management of and escalating costs associated with widely distributed Adj. 1. widely distributed - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" cosmopolitan bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms , unstructured, file-based information." Further information on Interop Las Vegas can be found at: http://interop.com/lasvegas/. About Riverbed Riverbed Technology is the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. Additional information about Riverbed (Nasdaq: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.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. Acopia is a trademark of Acopia Networks. Riverbed Technology, Riverbed, Steelhead, RiOS, Interceptor, and the Riverbed logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. 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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