Acopia Networks and Taneja Group to Present Webcast on the Top 5 Ways to Simplify Storage Management

Business Wire, Nov 13, 2006

Attendees to Learn How to Migrate Huge Amounts of Data, Automatically Tier Storage, Balance Storage Utilization, and Efficiently Replicate Data

LOWELL, Mass. -- Acopia Networks([R]), Inc., the leader in high performance intelligent file virtualization, today announced that it is joining with industry leading analyst research and consulting firm, the Taneja Group, to present a Webcast entitled, "Top 5 Ways to Simplify File Storage Management" later this week, on Thursday, November 16 at 9:00 a.m. EST. Acopia's director of product marketing, Nigel Burmeister, will join with senior analyst and consultant with the Taneja Group, Brad O'Neill, to review the challenges associated with file storage management and to discuss new trends and innovative technologies that could present the ideal solution.

In particular, this Webcast will delve into the advantages of intelligent file virtualization, which is being actively used in leading businesses around the world to improve the way files are managed. Attendees of this Webcast will learn how to:

* Migrate huge amounts of data non-disruptively, without downtime and without impacting users

* Tier storage automatically, freeing expensive disk and reducing storage and backup costs

* Balance storage utilization, dynamically optimizing application performance

* Replicate data efficiently, ensuring data protection and availability

To register for the Webcast, please visit: http://searchstorage.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1161962456_429.html?asrc=R SS_BP_BLATSTORAGE. (Due to the length of this URL, it may be necessary to copy and paste it into your Internet browser's URL address field. You may also need to remove an extra space in the URL if one exists.)

For further information about The Taneja Group, please visit: http://www.tanejagroup.com.

About Brad O'Neill, senior analyst and consultant, Taneja Group

As a respected market strategy expert within in the data storage industry, Brad O'Neil helps Taneja Group clients to develop, position, and launch offerings in the software, systems, and services sectors. As an analyst, Brad specializes in defining and tracking disruptive technology trends that will register long-term impacts on enterprise IT. A veteran of multiple start-ups, Brad's operating experience includes senior management positions in business development and product marketing.

About Nigel Burmeister, director of product marketing, Acopia Networks

Nigel Burmeister has more than 12 years of combined marketing and technology experience with products in the storage, carrier, and networking markets. With keen insight into customer requirements, he has a proven record of defining products that meet and resolve real business problems. At Acopia, Nigel is responsible for ensuring that the company's intelligent file virtualization products are aligned to the needs of its enterprise customers.

About Acopia Networks

Acopia Networks, Inc. is the leader in high performance intelligent file virtualization. Its family of ARX systems 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 across multi-vendor storage environments, the ARX systems help IT executives to reduce management overhead and accelerate business workflow. For further information about Acopia's products and services, please visit: http://www.acopia.com/, call: 978-513-2900 (US) / 49-89-944-90-165 (Europe), or email: info@acopia.com.

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