Acopia Partners With tcc Products GmbH.LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Expands Market Presence in Central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, Northern, Southern and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe. through New Channel Partnership with Innovative Systems Integrator Acopia Networks, Inc., the leader in high-performance, enterprise file virtualization See storage virtualization. , announced today the addition of tcc Products GmbH to the Acopia Channel Partner program, further intensifying Acopia's growing business activities in the Central European market. tcc Products, an experienced and trusted IT-infrastructure service provider and integrator, will immediately incorporate Acopia's Adaptive Resources Switches (ARX(R)) into its product portfolio. Additionally, tcc customers will now profit from high quality service and support offered by tcc's Acopia factory-certified services team. "Tiered storage A data storage system made up of two or more types of storage based on their access speed. For example, magnetic disk and tape or magnetic disk and optical disc are widely used in a tiered storage system. See HSM. and file virtualization are rapidly becoming strategic focus points for our customers - we see great potential for these solutions on the Central European market," explained Dirk Muller-Niessner, managing director of tcc Products GmbH. "Acopia's innovative ARX products fit ideally into our portfolio and enable us to deliver high quality integrated solutions. Additionally, Acopia's outstanding technical performance and innovative features offer our customers a superb ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ." In a press release dated May 15, 2006 entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "Key Trends that Will Drive Technology Further into the Business," Gartner identified four key trends predicted to significantly influence IT in the coming 30 years. Virtualisation was ranked second among developments that would dramatically change IT infrastructure. "This gives these IT leaders the flexibility to manage rapidly changing priorities in the demand for computing resources, and to better use their computing infrastructure," said Martin Reynolds Martin Edward Reynolds (born 22 February,1949) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. He competed for Great Britain in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Alan , vice president and Gartner Fellow. (http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_152230_11.html) "As a recognized leader in network services, tcc Products GmbH shares our vision for delivering innovative solutions to manage unstructured file-based data -- offering automatic, policy-driven, data migration, tiering, load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them , and replication - without vendor, protocol, or location constraints," commented Tim Pitcher, vice president of international sales for Acopia. "The combination of tcc's storage expertise and our innovative ARX solutions enables customers to achieve real value. We are very excited to partner with tcc Products to help customers dramatically reduce expense and accelerate business process efficiency." Acopia's award-winning ARX systems provide file virtualization across the network, simplifying the management of file storage and greatly improving the scale, performance and availability of existing file storage investments. Traditional NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular systems and file servers require an inflexible, tightly constrained con·strain tr.v. con·strained, con·strain·ing, con·strains 1. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige: felt constrained to object. See Synonyms at force. 2. relationship between clients and the underlying physical storage. By replacing this static relationship with an adaptable service layer, Acopia offers customers tremendous flexibility in the management, provisioning, and administration of their file storage resources. The recently published survey entitled, "New Country Analysis from the Experton Group: Information Lifecycle Management Information Lifecycle Management refers to a wide-ranging set of strategies for administering storage systems on computing devices. Specifically, four categories of storage strategies may be considered under the auspices of ILM. (ILM) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland," dated June 22, 2006, shows the increasing importance and need for intelligent storage management solutions and services. It states that ever-increasing volumes of data, new regulatory challenges, and compliance issues are making a strategic and integrated storage management approach a mission critical requirement for enterprises today. In Central Europe alone, the Experton Group estimates the market for storage solutions and services will grow by 11% until 2008, reaching a total volume of EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 6,51 billion. About tcc Products tcc Products GmbH is an experienced and trusted IT-infrastructure service provider, who develops integrated solutions for Client-Server environments based on proven and innovative products. tcc products GmbH is more than just a product provider, tcc Products GmbH provides solutions for all areas of IT-infrastructure with a focus on system and network environments. An authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: Microsoft Certified Partner, founded in 1998, tcc has become one of the leading experts in network management and the preferred IT-partner of leading companies such as Goodyear, Dunlop, Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (ISIN: DE0005557508, FWB: DTE, NYSE: DT, LSE: DEU, TYO: 9496 ) (abbreviated DTAG) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Germany and in the EU. , Lufthansa Systems Lufthansa Systems AG is one of the world’s leading IT service providers for the airline and aviation industry. It has around 3,320 employees in several locations in Germany and offices in 17 countries and is headquartered in Kelsterbach near Frankfurt. , Gebaudeversicherung Bern, etc. For more information, please visit its Website at http://www.tcc-products.de. 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 capabilities, 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 info@acopia.com. (C) 2006 Acopia Networks, Inc. Acopia is a trademark of Acopia Networks. 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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