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Acopia Networks Announces Breakthrough Software for Network-Based Intelligent File VirtualizationLOWELL, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- Acopia Networks(R), the leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization, today announced the availability of its FreedomFabric(TM) V2.5 network operating system software. With the release, Acopia continues to lead the market by offering the industry's first network-based, open, extensible, and massively scalable intelligent virtualization software, providing enterprise customers with a comprehensive set of network-based, file management services. "Acopia offers freedom of choice, plain and simple," said Christopher Lynch, president and CEO, Acopia. "Our customers are free to let their business requirements alone dictate the most appropriate storage technology for a given set of data. Customers love the fact that our powerful value proposition allows them to take advantage of the rapidly falling price of open storage while providing heterogeneous, real-time, automated data management. With this release, we are taking our offerings to the next level of value. Acopia's FreedomFabric network operating system is the industry's first and only independent, enterprise-class, intelligent file virtualization software. With this announcement we are further aligning our offerings with the best interests of our customers." Powered by FreedomFabric V2.5 software, Acopia's ARX(TM) systems create powerful, easy to manage, virtualized environments comprised of popular file servers and network attached storage devices. No longer locked into high priced, proprietary technology, Acopia's enterprise customers enjoy revolutionary freedom to choose the best and most appropriate storage devices based solely on their business needs. About FreedomFabric V2.5 Acopia's FreedomFabric network operating system delivers the industry's first platform-neutral, network-based, file virtualization solution. By replacing the traditional static mapping between users and storage with a dynamic virtualization layer, FreedomFabric V2.5 software separates logical access from physical location, masking changes at either end. Management operations that were once manual and disruptive become automatic and transparent - reducing operating expenses (OPEX) and capital expenditures (CAPEX), and improving business efficiency. FreedomFabric V2.5 software enables data to be moved freely throughout the entire breadth of storage tiers - driven by business policy not technical constraint, and without impacting business operation. Infrequently accessed or less critical data can be automatically stored on inexpensive systems while the most performance sensitive data can be delivered at semi-conductor speeds.
Customer benefits include:
-- Freedom of choice
-- Organizations are free to leverage the technology that most
appropriately addresses their business need(s), regardless
of platform or vendor.
-- Automated online storage management
-- Administrators are able to perform common storage
management tasks such as adds, moves, and changes during
regular business hours, without downtime or manual
reconfiguration.
-- Simplified access
-- The complex mapping to multiple devices where data
physically resides is dramatically simplified.
Acopia's FreedomFabric network operating system also provides the
basis for enforcing powerful automated intelligent data management
policies, including:
-- Non-disruptive data migrations move data across heterogeneous
storage devices to facilitate seamless server consolidation,
platform upgrades, and vendor switches.
-- Automated storage tiering places data on the appropriate
storage tier automatically and manages the data lifecycle over
time, reducing CAPEX and shrinking backup and recovery windows.
-- Efficient data replication of file data between heterogeneous
storage devices for more efficient and cost effective disaster
recovery.
-- Dynamic load balancing distributes demand across existing
storage devices dynamically, improving application performance.
"There is no real debate currently around the fact that Acopia has become the very high-end, super scale choice in the big shops for file virtualization," stated Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). "It seems the segregation of hardware and software enables them to take advantage of new silicon advancements very quickly, which translates into getting those advancements into customer sites equally fast. Not everyone will need that kind of scale, but for those who do, the list of options is very, very short." FreedomFabric V2.5 software is a unified network operating system that today powers all of Acopia's award-winning ARX family of intelligent file virtualization systems including the ARX 6000, ARX 1000, and ARX 500. About Acopia Networks Acopia Networks is the leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization. Solutions based on Acopia's FreedomFabric(TM) network operating system software 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, snapshots, and replication across multi-vendor storage environments, Acopia helps IT executives to reduce management overhead and accelerate business workflow. For further information about Acopia's products and services, please visit its Website at www.acopia.com, call 978-513-2900 (US) / 49-89-944-90-165 (Europe) or email [email protected]. (C) 2007 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. |
