Ibis Consulting Achieves Significant Business Benefit after Deploying Acopia's ARX Switches.LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Networks, Inc., the pioneer of Adaptive Resource Networking products, today announced that Ibis ibis (ī`bĭs), common name for wading birds with long, slender, decurved bills, found in the warmer regions of both hemispheres. The body is usually about 2 ft (61 cm) long. Most ibises nest in colonies. Consulting, Inc., an innovator in electronic data discovery, has experienced dramatic improvements in the throughput, utilization and scale of its digital factory operations through the use of Acopia's award-winning ARX switches. Ibis Consulting, a leader in the electronic data discovery market, analyzes and transforms massive amounts of electronic data for its customers for use in the discovery phase of legal proceedings All actions that are authorized or sanctioned by law and instituted in a court or a tribunal for the acquisition of rights or the enforcement of remedies. . Driven by substantial business growth, Ibis reached the point where the capacity of its Network Attached Storage (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 ) infrastructure might limit future growth potential. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Cliff Dutton, Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Ibis Consulting, "The size and performance of our existing file storage infrastructure began to challenge our ability to scale operationally to meet the business demands. Our systems were approaching performance limits. We frequently had to provision new storage and manually migrate data sets across the new systems." Ibis found Acopia's ARX switches to be a powerful enhancement to their scalability. According to Dutton, "Immediately after deploying Acopia's switches, we experienced remarkable improvements in operational efficiencies. Acopia's in-band adaptive resource switch provided real-time balancing of load across our BlueArc file servers, greatly increasing storage scalability, while effectively utilizing all of our available file storage capacity. Going forward, the switches will automate our data management tasks, greatly reducing the operational expense of manually managing data on our file servers." Brendon Howe, Vice President of Marketing for Acopia Networks, said, "We're thrilled with the early results Ibis has achieved by using our products to better manage their NAS infrastructure. It's yet another proof point of how the ARX switches provide immediate and significant return to customers who are looking to better utilize their existing file server infrastructure, improve application performance, and simplify the management of storage." 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 Data that does not reside in fixed locations. Free-form text in a word processing document is a typical example. Contrast with structured data. See free-form database. 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. About Ibis Consulting Ibis Consulting, an innovator and expert in electronic discovery and regulatory compliance since 1992, provides enterprise solutions for managing data, including retention, recovery, discovery, and 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. in compliance with recent corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. regulations. Ibis regularly supports the largest and most complex compliance, regulation and litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. actions globally. Ibis Consulting is based in Providence, Rhode Island  “Providence” redirects here. For other uses, see Providence (disambiguation). Providence is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. with offices in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . For further information about Ibis, please call 401-453-9000, ext. 9142 or visit www.ibisconsulting.com. 2005 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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