April 12, 2007

Congratulations to
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation for its
"Best Practices in Storage" Nomination

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the world's largest living history museum and an Acopia customer, is a finalist for Storage Networking World's "Best Practices in Storage" award, in the category of "Innovation and Promise." Learn how their deployment of Acopia solutions resulted in savings of up to $400,000! Read case study.

FAN Early Adopters Share Stories

Presentation Highlights for SNW Spring
Intelligence for Unstructured File Data
Acopia Announces Alliance
Funniest Tech Videos on YouTube

File Area Network Early Adopters Share Their Stories

Techworld
End-users from a diverse set of companies cite easier data migrations and less downtime as key reasons for embracing new technologies.

Storage Tip: Choosing Data to be Protected with Encryption

storage.itworld.com
Protecting data from physical loss means making sure that the data can’t be accessed. But before you decide to encrypt you must decide what to encrypt.

Fast Guide: Storage Capacity Planning

SearchStorageChannel.com
The reality of storage forecasting is anything but a science. You can plot past growth and add in a fudge factor, but the result is still a guess. Here are seven areas to investigate that should make the process a little more science and a little less art.

File Area Networking (FAN): The Next Generation

InfoStor Europe
File area networking will bridge the worlds of applications and file resources, bringing global scalability, transparent, secure access to data, and efficient, centralised data and storage management.

The Role of the Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Systems
In any organization, the role of the enterprise architect is a combination of soothsayer, confidant, leader and technician who manages to keep one eye on technology, one eye on the business and, well, yet another eye on the future.

A CFO Speaks: I Hate IT!

Storage Bits
One man's take on the sometimes contentious relationship between IT and the business side of the organization. Bottom line: taking care of the customer should be the mantra for every IT department.

Intelligence for Unstructured Data

storage.itworld.com
Structured, semi-structured and unstructured data must all be managed differently by IT. However, a movement is afoot to add intelligence to unstructured data to make it more manageable.

Backup Failure Costs State a Bundle

Enterprise Storage Forum
A perfect storm of errors caused the Alaska Department of Revenue's data backup procedures to fail, wiping out data on a $38 billion account and costing the state $200,000 to restore the data. Lesson learned: test, test and the retest.

Users Shatter Storage Myths

Byte and Switch
IT managers gathered at the recent Data Protection Summit in California debunk a trio of familiar storage myths.

Justifying Your Storage Staffing

SearchStorage.com
With storage often growing at 50%GAGR doing the same job with the same staff means you are moving backwards; and then the financial wizards tell you to cut back. Here are three areas that can help you put objective numbers on a subjective subject

The Top 10 Funniest Tech Videos on YouTube

Computerworld
What the heck...everyone needs a laughter break during the day!

 

 

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SNW Spring '07 Update:
Not-to-be-missed Sessions

End-user Presentations

Monday, April 16:
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.: "Deploying and Managing a Storage Virtualization Solution in an On-Demand World"
Paul Yarborough, Manager of Server and Storage Operations, Comcast

2:50 p.m. - 3:35 p.m.: "How to Keep Your Storage Network Healthy with File Virtualization"
Stephen Warner, Executive Director, IT Infrastructure, Quest Diagnostics

4:40 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.: "File Storage Virtualization 'For Dummies'"
James Sample, Director, IT Infrastructure, Wiley Publishing

SNIA Tutorials by Acopia CTO Rick Gillett

Monday, April 16:
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.: "Accelerating Application Performance - Tier 0"

Wednesday, April 18:
3:05 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.: "FAN: An Architecture for Scalable, Service-Oriented, Data Management"

Plus, visit Acopia in Booth C-18 to learn about "The Freedom Effect" of our intelligent file virtualizations solutions and pick up your "Freedom" travel mug!

Acopia Advocates Freedom of Choice for Storage Users with Launch of FreedomFabric™ Alliance

Leading technology vendors from around the globe sign on to help customers better manage globally distributed, unstructured, file-based information.
Read full announcement >
View list of alliance members>

London Seminar April 24, 2007: The Case for Intelligent File Virtualisation

This one-day seminar features Acopia CTO Rick Gillett and a peer networking session during a Campagne Flight aboard the London Eye.
Register or learn more now >

Acopia Announces NeoPath Buyback Program
Acopia is offering a limited-time NeoPath Buyback Program which offers a product allowance of up to 100% towards the purchase of an Acopia ARX™ system.
Learn more >

 

 

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