Acopia Expands Presence in Europe - UK-based FIFTHWAVE to Offer Acopia ARX Solutions to Investment Banking, Telco, and Manufacturing Customers
Lowell, MA and London, UK - October 4, 2006 - Acopia Networks®, Inc., the leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization, and FIFTHWAVE Solutions, a leading UK-based independent solutions provider, today announced that the two companies have entered into a partnership agreement. Under its terms, FIFTHWAVE Solutions will offer the Acopia family of ARX™ solutions to its customers across multiple vertical markets, including Investment Banking, Telecommunications, and Manufacturing. The inclusion of the Acopia ARX product set into the established Infrastructure offerings from FIFTHWAVE will provide its customers with the extended capability to better manage the growth, complexity, and cost of their globally distributed, file-based information, by providing automatic, policy-driven, data migration, tiering, load balancing, and replication capabilities across their heterogeneous storage environments.
"Our customers have been telling us for some time that one of their greatest challenges center around their ability, or rather lack thereof, to efficiently and cost-effectively deliver a fully managed, automated, storage service and cope with the exponential growth of their file-based information - particularly frustrating have been the problems they face in regards to file storage bottlenecks," said Neil Parker, CEO of FIFTHWAVE Solutions. "The availability of intelligent file virtualization technology from Acopia, as a core component of our Infrastructure solution set, will allow our customers to address these storage challenges head-on. By allowing our customers to match their business requirements with each storage tier's cost and capabilities, as a service, they will be able to deliver improved datacenter efficiencies, while dramatically reducing storage and backup costs."
"Storage bottlenecks impact productivity and service levels across virtually all types of enterprise environments. However, by incorporating Acopia intelligent file virtualization, with advanced server technology and services delivered by FIFTHWAVE, customers in the UK will now be able to address these bottlenecks efficiently and cost effectively - improving productivity, reducing cycle times, and processing more tasks with minimal disruption to existing environments," said Kirby Wadsworth, senior vice president of marketing and business development for Acopia. "We are delighted to enter into this agreement with FIFTHWAVE and look forward to a long lasting and mutually beneficial relationship."
Acopia ARX™ systems simplify file storage management - making it easier than ever for companies to migrate, tier, balance, and replicate file data across the entire enterprise storage environment. Specifically, Acopia ARX intelligent file virtualization provides customers with the ability to:
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Migrate large numbers of files, transparently to users, without scheduled outages,
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Tier data to appropriate storage media automatically and continuously - freeing expensive high-performance disk and dramatically reducing storage and backup costs
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Increase utilization and optimize performance with advanced real-time load balancing
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Replicate data efficiently and flexibly to ensure data protection and high availability
Founded in 2004, FIFTHWAVE has become one of the UK's leading independent solutions providers focused on improving the performance and utilization of server platforms and networks within corporate datacenters. It delivers consulting led solutions in partnership with many of the leading technology companies in the world, such as Acopia Networks. Its technology focus areas include Infrastructure Change Management, Automation, Virtualisation, and GRID Computing, delivered by FIFTHWAVE Consulting. For additional information, please visit: http://www.fifthwavesolutions.com/index.htm.
Acopia Networks is the leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization. Its family of ARX™ systems helps 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 systems help IT executives to reduce management overhead and accelerate business workflow.
For further information about Acopia's products and services, please visit:www.acopia.com , call 978-513-2900 (US) / 49-89-944-90-165 (Europe), or email info@acopia.com.
©2006 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.
Contact:
Nicole Gorman
Acopia Networks, Inc.
508-397-0131
ngorman@acopia.com