[April 16, 2007]

Acopia Networks to Demonstrate Intelligent File Virtualization Solutions at Storage Networking World, Spring 2007

LOWELL, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- Acopia Networks(TM), Inc., the world's leading provider of intelligent file virtualization solutions, today announced that it will demonstrate its Acopia ARX(TM) systems and FreedomFabric(TM) operating system software during this week's Storage Networking World (SNW), Spring 2007, taking place April 16 - 19, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA, in Booth C-18.

The Acopia exhibit will showcase its award-winning intelligent file virtualization solutions' ability to make it easier than ever to migrate, tier, balance, and replicate file data while reducing capital expenditures and operating costs. IT executives will be able to see first-hand how Acopia can help them to avoid spending hours manually deleting files, reconfiguring client systems, or copying files between storage tiers, as well as how they can pool existing storage resources to scale with the business and improve business workflow. Additionally, Acopia will highlight how its solutions eliminate vendor lock-in and give customers the flexibility to choose data storage and management technologies based solely on business needs.

This year's SNW Spring will also feature case studies from three Acopia customers: Comcast, Quest Diagnostics, and Wiley Publishing. Their presentations are scheduled to take place:

-- Monday, April 16 at 1:00 p.m.: Paul Yarborough, Comcast Media Center, "Deploying and Managing a File Storage Virtualization Solution in an On Demand World"

-- Monday, April 16 at 2:50 p.m.: Steve Warner, Quest Diagnostics, "How to Keep Your Storage Network Healthy with File Virtualization"

-- Monday, April 16 at 4:40 p.m.: James Sample, Wiley Publishing, "File Storage Virtualization 'For Dummies'"

Acopia CTO, Rick Gillett will also present the following Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) tutorials:

-- Monday, April 16 at 1:00 p.m.: "Accelerating Application Performance - Tier 0"

-- Wednesday, April 18 at 3:05 p.m.: "FAN: An Architecture for Scalable, Service-Oriented, Data Management"

Gillett explained, "The file area network, or FAN, provides today's enterprises with a tool that leverages file virtualization, network-based policy enforcement, and globally distributed access, in an inclusive and open approach that not only 'allows' but 'calls for' multiple vendor technologies to interoperate. It is an approach that provides a common reference framework for all file-related technologies, offering huge improvements in management efficiency, access to data, and business agility."

"Tier 0 builds upon traditional approaches to tiered storage, or ILM. Whereas before, the goal was to move lower priority files to lower performing, less expensive disk in an effort to save on storage and backup costs; today users can expand this conventional cost savings approach to include migration of data to higher performance memory based devices for the specific purpose of dramatically optimizing performance," Gillett continued. "I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on two such timely and highly critical topics for today's IT executive."

In a press release dated March 28, 2007, Acopia announced that its customer, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, had been named a finalist for Storage Networking World's "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program, in the category of "Innovation and Promise." The twice annual awards program identifies and acknowledges excellence among users of storage technology. Finalists will be honored at the Storage Networking World conference during a Gala Evening and Awards Ceremony held on April 18, 2007, and will also be recognized on the event Website and in an event press release.

For further information regarding Storage Networking World, Spring 2007, please visit: www.snwusa.com.

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 info@acopia.com.

(C) 2007 Acopia Networks, Inc. Acopia, Acopia Networks, ARX, and FreedomFabric are trademarks of Acopia Networks, Inc. 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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