Acopia Partners With tcc Products GmbH.

LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Expands Market Presence in Central Europe through New Channel Partnership with Innovative Systems Integrator

Acopia Networks, Inc., the leader in high-performance, enterprise file 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 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."

In a press release dated May 15, 2006 entitled "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, 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, 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 systems and file servers require an inflexible, tightly constrained 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 (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 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 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, Lufthansa Systems, 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 [e-mail].

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