Acopia Networks Names Tom Sweeney as Vice President Of Engineering; EMC Veteran to Lead Acopia's Rapidly Expanding Development Team

Business Wire, July 13, 2006

LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Networks(R), the pioneer of Adaptive Resource Networking, announced today the appointment of Tom Sweeney to the position of Vice President of Engineering. Previously EMC's Senior Director of Engineering for PowerPath, in this new role Mr. Sweeney will lead the development of Acopia's ARX(R) family of Adaptive Resource Switches, and oversee the continuing technical advancement of the company's software and hardware engineering efforts.

During his 24 year career, Mr. Sweeney has held a variety of executive engineering positions at enterprise storage companies, managing teams responsible for software and hardware product development, qualification and integration. Prior to PowerPath, Mr. Sweeney was Senior Director of Interoperability in EMC's eLab, the fibre channel storage industry's leading integration and qualification facility for SAN products.

"Tom's proven record of developing products and his practical approach to managing high-performance engineering teams further strengthens our software and hardware engineering efforts," said Christopher P. Lynch, President and CEO, Acopia Networks. "We are excited to have Tom on board as we continue to expand our offerings to meet the complex data management needs of customers across the globe."

"With blue-chip customer traction, rapidly growing revenues, and broad industry recognition, this is an exciting time to join Acopia," said Mr. Sweeney. "I look forward to working with this world-class team to maximize the transformational impact of this impressive technology."

Earlier in his career, Sweeney was Vice President of Engineering at Availant Corporation, the developer of IBM's flagship HACMP clustering software. He also spent 14 years in the defense industry managing mission critical software and hardware programs for various companies including Hughes Aircraft Company and Raytheon Corporation. Tom earned a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Providence College and received an MBA from the University of Rhode Island.

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 migration, capacity balancing and replication 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, Humboldstr. 12, 85609 Munich-Aschheim/Dornach, Germany. Phone: 49-89-944-90-165. Email: sales@acopia.com.

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