Acopia Wins ''Storage Product of the Year'' for 2006; Acopia's ARX Series Selected for Prestigious Award at Techworld Awards.LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Networks (R), the pioneer of Adaptive Resource Networking products, today announced that its Adaptive Resource Switch (ARX(R)) series has been selected the Storage Product of the Year for 2006 at the annual Techworld Awards. Acopia's ARX switches were selected 1st from a group of six leading storage category finalists, out of a record-breaking number of product nominations. The Storage Product of the Year Award recognizes Acopia's ARX products for outstanding technical excellence, innovative functionality, leading performance and customer's return on investment. "Acopia is deeply honored to have been selected for the Storage Product of the Year Award, out of such a prestigious group of storage industry finalists," said Christopher P. Lynch, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Acopia Networks. "This kind of recognition further validates the strengths of the ARX products, the uniqueness of the solution, and the dramatic impact the ARX is having on our customers." Acopia's award-winning ARX products embed file virtualization See storage virtualization. technology into the network to simplify the management of file storage and greatly improve the scale, performance and availability of existing 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 and file server infrastructure. Acopia's customers today include a growing list of Fortune 500 companies such as Merrill Lynch, Toshiba, Warner Music Group Warner Music Group (WMG) is one of the four major record labels. Warner Music Group also has a publishing arm, Warner/Chappell Music, which dates back to 1929, when Jack Warner, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. , Raytheon and Goldman Sachs. Techworld's Storage Product of the Year for 2006 is the second industry distinction Acopia has received in less than a month. Early this month, Acopia's ARX was recognized as a Most Valuable Product finalist in the 2006 MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. 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About Acopia Networks Acopia Networks is the innovator of Adaptive Resource Networking products, a new class of file switches that uniquely solve the problem of managing unstructured data in the global enterprise. Acopia's Adaptive Resources Switches (ARX) allow customers to improve performance and better utilize existing file server infrastructure. The products also provide non-disruptive data replication, migration, and capacity balancing across multiple NAS devices, thereby reducing management overhead and accelerating business workflow in the process. Information about Acopia's products and services can be found at http://www.acopia.com. Acopia corporate headquarters are located at 41 Wellman Street, Lowell MA. Phone: 978-513-2900, email: info@acopia.com. Its European headquarters are at Acopia Networks EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. , Humboldstr. 12, 85609 Munich-Aschheim/Dornach, Germany. Phone: 49-89-944-90-165. Email: sales@acopia.com. 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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