File Virtualization's Ability to Deliver Automatic and Non-Disruptive Data Tiering to be Presented as Key Solution
Lowell, MA - September 12, 2006 - Acopia Networks®, the leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization, today announced that its founder and chairman of the board, Cheng Wu, will be a featured panelist at TiE-Boston's Software Services Business Forum (SSBF) taking place later this week on Thursday, September 14th, from 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. at the MIT Tang Center, Cambridge, MA. The panel, which will focus on the topic of "Storage and Security" will be moderated by Zenas Hutcheson, senior managing director, Vesbridge Partners, and include participants from EMC, The Yankee Group, Voltage Security, ChosenSecurity, and Computer Associates.
"Given the current stringent legal climate and even stronger and more complicated laws that are forthcoming, experts are advising that IT managers need to give even greater priority to the implementation of data protection procedures and protocols. Yet, the majority of organizations, large and small, admit that they are still in the very early phases of implementing an appropriate strategy," commented Hutcheson. "The participants on this panel each offer a unique and vital piece of the overall solution. I look forward to learning more about this critically important topic, as well as the 'lively' debate that is likely to ensue." He added, "We are of course delighted that Cheng Wu, a highly regarded serial entrepreneur and technology visionary is able to join us."
"The ability for system administrators to set policy that allows for transparent, or non-disruptive, automatic movement of less critical, less accessed and many times - low security files to storage that is lower performance and less expensive, while ensuring business critical files are moved to higher performing and highly secure storage is indeed a capability in great demand," said Wu. "Optimizing resources in such a manner not only provides the greatest levels of data protection and security, it also allows for IT executives to free-up valuable resources to concentrate on other activities, while dramatically lowering the overall IT budget."
For additional information about the TiE-Boston's Software Services Business Forum (SSBF), please visit its Website at: http://boston.tie.org/Home/iFrame_template?id:int=1236&title=UpComingEvents_tiebstn.
Prior to founding Acopia in 2002, industry visionary and serial entrepreneur, Cheng Wu founded and subsequently sold Arrowpoint Communications, a leading Web switching company, to Cisco Systems for $5.7 Billion in 2000. Prior to the sale, Mr. Wu was the technical visionary behind ArrowPoint's innovative intelligent L4-7 load balancing switches, optimized for e-commerce and content delivery capabilities. After the sale, Mr. Wu held various executive management positions at Cisco Systems, including group vice president, general manager and vice president of strategy for Cisco's Content and Multi-Service Edge Group. Prior to founding Arrowpoint, he founded Arris Networks, a developer of high-density Internet access products, which he subsequently sold to Cascade Communications (now Lucent Technologies) for $150 million in 1996, just seven months after founding. Mr. Wu holds a Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering from ChiaoTung University, Taiwan and a Master's Degree in computer science from Indiana University.
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Acopia Networks is the leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization. Its family of Adaptive Resource Switches (ARX™) 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 switches help 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.
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Contacts:
Nicole Gorman
Acopia Networks, Inc.
508-397-0131
ngorman@acopia.com
Tarangini Suresh
TiE-Boston
781-272-3875
tarangini@tie-boston.org