Managing Storage Growth Revealed As Biggest Customer Pain Point, While Consolidation and Tiered Storage Build-Out Topped List of Top Storage Initiatives
Lowell, MA – July 10, 2007 – Acopia Networks®, Inc., the world’s leading provider of high-performance, intelligent file virtualization solutions, today announced that TheInfoPro (TIP), an independent research network and leading supplier of market intelligence for the IT industry, has named Acopia to its Wave 9 Time Series “Most Exciting Storage Vendors” list.
The list, compiled as part of the Wave 9 Storage Study which details technology adoption trends, management techniques, and vendor performance, is based upon feedback from storage professionals regarding which storage organizations they consider as having the most exciting storage products and services.
“Our research unmistakably indicated that managing storage growth was the biggest customer pain point, while consolidation and tiered storage build-out topped the list of top storage initiatives,” said Robert Stevenson, TheInfoPro’s managing director of Storage Research. “Our research further revealed that enterprise customers are recognizing in ever growing numbers that file virtualization solutions, such as that delivered by Acopia, provide an ideal solution for managing the growth, complexity, and cost of their burgeoning data storage. It therefore makes perfect sense that file virtualization is also viewed as a powerful tool for tackling consolidation and tiering efforts.”
“Customer recognition of Acopia’s market leadership is clearly shown in TIP’s ‘Most Exciting Storage Vendors List’,” said Kirby Wadsworth, senior vice president of marketing and business development, Acopia. “Indeed, Acopia’s rapidly increasing installed base reflects the incredible customer enthusiasm we see everyday. It is very gratifying however, that this enterprise end-user excitement for our solutions is now officially confirmed by a trusted and well respected market intelligence firm – TheInfoPro.”
To view a rich media presentation of the findings, please visit: http://www.brainshark.com/theinfopro/stor_timeseries.
About TIP’s Storage Study
Over 150 Fortune 1000 end users were interviewed for the Wave 9 Storage Study, providing commentary and insight on their storage adoption plans, management strategies, and vendor performance.
About TheInfoPro
TheInfoPro (TIP) is the only independent research network for the Information Technology (IT) industry. Through a peer network of over 900 of the world’s largest buyers and users of IT, including Citigroup, FedEx, McGraw-Hill, MasterCard, Pfizer, Vodafone, PepsiCo, JPMorgan Chase, and Harvard University, TIP delivers detailed budget, vendor performance, and technology roadmap data without spin or bias. Known as the “voice of the customer,” TIP helps IT professionals, technology providers, and institutional investors make sound decisions on technologies, vendor relationships, and investments. Founded in 2002 by alumni of Gartner, Giga, EMC, and Bell Labs, TIP is headquartered in New York City, with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston. To learn more, visit: www.theinfopro.net or call: 1-212-672-0010.
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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Contact:
Nicole Gorman
Acopia Networks, Inc.
508-397-0131
ngorman@acopia.com