Will Discuss Acopia's Present and Future Outlook, As Well As Provide General Overview On the File Virtualization Marketplace
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 presenter at the Bank of America, 36th Annual Investment Conference, taking place September 18 - 21, 2006 at The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco, California. Wu's presentation, taking place during the Private Technology Track, Wednesday, September 20th at 1:30 p.m. in the Pavilion Room, will focus on Acopia's present and future outlook, as well as provide a general overview on the file virtualization marketplace.
"I am honored to have been invited to present amongst a virtual who's-who of companies and visionary leaders that represent the very fabric of today's most innovative and successful worldwide commerce," commented Wu. "I look forward to discussing Acopia, and the tremendous opportunity the file virtualization space offers, with my esteemed colleagues and the remarkable roster of investors attending this event."
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.
For additional information about the Bank of America, 36th Annual Investment Conference, please visit its Website at: https://gems.bankofamerica.com/public/EventOverview.do?dispatch=display&eventId=10&site=client.
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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Contact:
Nicole Gorman
Acopia Networks, Inc.
508-397-0131
ngorman@acopia.com