Acopia Networks to Join Databasement at Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Conference

Will Demonstrate the IT and Business Value of File Storage Virtualization with Netherlands-Based Strategic Channel Partner
 
Lowell, MA and Dekker, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands - June 4, 2007 - Acopia Networks®, Inc., the world's leading provider of high-performance, intelligent file virtualization solutions, today announced that it will join with strategic channel partner, Databasement, to demonstrate the IT and business benefits of file storage virtualization at the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Conference, being held June 12, 2007 in Dekker, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands.
 
Acopia will join with Databasement in its stand to showcase its ARX™ systems' and FreedomFabric™ network operating system software's ability to simplify file storage management, helping customers to manage the growth, complexity, and cost of unstructured, file data.  Together they will demonstrate how by providing automatic, policy-driven, data migration, tiering, load balancing, and replication across multi-vendor storage environments, Acopia solutions help IT executives to reduce costs and management overhead, while accelerating business workflow.
 
"Partnering with Acopia fits perfectly with our vision to deliver industry leading replication and restore solutions for medium and large enterprise customers across Europe," said Rob Christ, founder and managing director, Databasement.  "We look forward to meeting with many of the most prominent companies across Europe at the upcoming ILM Conference, and the opportunity to discuss with them how a Databasement file area network (FAN) solution, featuring Acopia technology, can help them to meet their globally distributed file management lifecycle needs."
 
"Managing data growth is today's number one problem for storage professionals.  Acopia solutions offer customers of all sizes the ability to better manage their explosive data growth, while also controlling the associated escalating storage management costs.  In fact, according to a recent IDC white paper (IDC #206435), Acopia file virtualization solutions have helped our customers to reduce storage costs by 50% - 80% and improve management efficiency by up to 90%," said Kirby Wadsworth, senior vice president of marketing and business development, Acopia.  "We are indeed proud and fortunate to have the opportunity to highlight our file virtualization technology, as well as the recent IDC white paper findings, together with Databasement, one of the leading solution providers in Europe."
 
Further information on Databasement can be found at: http://www.databasement.eu/.
 
Further information about the ILM Conference can be found at: http://heliview.nl/Applications/Heliview.nsf/InschrijvingenCongres?OpenForm&ParentUNID=69467BAF3FE5D082C1257244003DE6E8.
 
About Acopia Networks
Acopia Networks is the leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization.  Solutions based on Acopia's FreedomFabric™ 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) or 49-89-944-90-165 (Europe), or email info@acopia.com.
 
 © 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.

Contacts:    

United States
Nicole Gorman    
Acopia Networks, Inc.   
508-397-0131    
ngorman@acopia.com

Benelux & Nordic Region
Patrick van Arendonk
Acopia Networks
+31-653240476
pvanarendonk@acopia.com