Acopia File Virtualization and Riverbed Wide-Area Data Services to Meet the Needs of Distributed Enterprise Customers
Lowell, MA (May 21, 2007) - Acopia Networks®, Inc., the world's leading provider of intelligent file virtualization solutions, today announced it will demonstrate its Acopia ARX™ systems and FreedomFabric™ operating system software at Interop Las Vegas, taking place this week at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Acopia's demonstration will take place in the booth of Riverbed Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: RVBD), the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) - Booth #559. It will highlight how by combining the benefits of Acopia's file virtualization technology with Riverbed's WDS solution customers will be able to overcome the common constraints of today's highly distributed enterprises, which are typically complex, inflexible, inefficient, and growing rapidly. Customers will see how they will be able to maximize the benefits of Acopia file area network (FAN) technology, which include simplified access, unhindered flexibility, optimized utilization, and heterogeneous support, when combined with the acceleration provided by Riverbed's WDS solutions.
"Riverbed® Steelhead® appliances accelerate the performance of applications over the WAN by five to fifty times and in some cases over a hundred times," said Venugopal Pai, senior director, alliances at Riverbed. "Together with Acopia, we can offer customers file storage virtualization and management solutions that can be easily and non-disruptively implemented across their highly distributed enterprises."
"By combining Acopia virtualization solutions and Riverbed Steelhead appliances, distributed enterprise customers will be able to enjoy complete freedom in terms of leveraging existing technology investments, while protecting their freedom to choose the most appropriate technology to meet future business requirements," said Kirby Wadsworth, senior vice president of marketing and business development, Acopia. "Together, we hope to solve one of today's most prevalent IT challenges - that is, how to regain control over the management of and escalating costs associated with widely distributed, unstructured, file-based information."
Further information on Interop Las Vegas can be found at: http://interop.com/lasvegas/.
About Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the performance leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. Additional information about Riverbed (Nasdaq: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.
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) / 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
Kim Kapustka
Riverbed Technology
415-344-4476
kim@riverbed.com