Acopia Networks to Demonstrate Intelligent File Virtualization Solutions at Storage Networking World, Spring 2007.Acopia Customers Comcast, Quest Diagnostics Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE: DGX) is a United States corporation which provides clinical laboratory services . The company also has a business presence in England and Mexico. Quest Diagnostics is a member of the Fortune 500 and the S&P 500. , and Wiley Publishing to Present Case Studies on 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. Implementations; Acopia CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , Rick Gillett, to Present Two 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 Tutorials on File Area Networking (FAN) and Accelerating Application Performance - Tier 0 Acopia Customer, Colonial Williamsburg Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. Colonial Williamsburg consists of many of the buildings that formed the original colonial capital of Williamsburg in James City County from 1699 to 1780, with all traces of later Foundation, Finalist for Storage Networking World Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. , Best Practices in Storage Awards LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Networks[TM], Inc., the world's leading provider of intelligent file virtualization See storage virtualization. solutions, today announced that 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 during this week's Storage Networking World (SNW SNW Snow SNW Strange New Worlds (Star Trek) SNW Social Networking Website SNW Sub Networks SNW Storage Networking World ), Spring 2007, taking place April 16 - 19, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , CA, in Booth C-18. The Acopia exhibit will showcase its award-winning intelligent file virtualization solutions' ability to make it easier than ever to migrate, tier, balance, and replicate file data while reducing capital expenditures and operating costs. IT executives will be able to see first-hand how Acopia can help them to avoid spending hours manually deleting files, reconfiguring client systems, or copying files between storage tiers, as well as how they can pool existing storage resources to scale with the business and improve business workflow. Additionally, Acopia will highlight how its solutions eliminate vendor lock-in and give customers the flexibility to choose data storage and management technologies based solely on business needs. This year's SNW Spring will also feature case studies from three Acopia customers: Comcast, Quest Diagnostics, and Wiley Publishing. Their presentations are scheduled to take place: * Monday, April 16 at 1:00 p.m.: Paul Yarborough yar·bor·ough n. Games A bridge or whist hand containing no honor cards. [After Charles Anderson Worsley, Second Earl of Yarborough , Comcast Media Center, "Deploying and Managing a File Storage Virtualization Solution in an On Demand World" * Monday, April 16 at 2:50 p.m.: Steve Warner, Quest Diagnostics, "How to Keep Your Storage Network Healthy with File Virtualization" * Monday, April 16 at 4:40 p.m.: James Sample, Wiley Publishing, "File Storage Virtualization 'For Dummies'" Acopia CTO, Rick Gillett will also present the following 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) tutorials: * Monday, April 16 at 1:00 p.m.: "Accelerating Application Performance - Tier 0" * Wednesday, April 18 at 3:05 p.m.: "FAN: An Architecture for Scalable, Service-Oriented, Data Management" Gillett explained, "The file area network, or FAN, provides today's enterprises with a tool that leverages file virtualization, network-based policy enforcement, and globally distributed access, in an inclusive and open approach that not only 'allows' but 'calls for' multiple vendor technologies to interoperate. It is an approach that provides a common reference framework for all file-related technologies, offering huge improvements in management efficiency, access to data, and business agility." "Tier 0 builds upon traditional approaches to tiered storage, or ILM. Whereas before, the goal was to move lower priority files to lower performing, less expensive disk in an effort to save on storage and backup costs; today users can expand this conventional cost savings approach to include migration of data to higher performance memory based devices for the specific purpose of dramatically optimizing performance," Gillett continued. "I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on two such timely and highly critical topics for today's IT executive." In a press release dated March 28, 2007, Acopia announced that its customer, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, had been named a finalist for Storage Networking World's "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program, in the category of "Innovation and Promise." The twice annual awards program identifies and acknowledges excellence among users of storage technology. Finalists will be honored at the Storage Networking World conference during a Gala Evening and Awards Ceremony held on April 18, 2007, and will also be recognized on the event Website and in an event press release. For further information regarding Storage Networking World, Spring 2007, please visit: www.snwusa.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, Acopia Networks, ARX, and FreedomFabric are trademarks of Acopia Networks, 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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