Acopia Networks, the leader in high-performance, intelligent file virtualization, today announced that it will join with Databasement, one of Europe’s leading storage management solutions providers, to showcase its industry leading solutions for globally distributed, file storage and management, at the upcoming Storage Expo, taking place in Brussels, Belgium, March 21 – 22, 2007, in stand #D017.

“In talks with Databasement customers, we have heard consistently that the number one priority in the coming year is overcoming the challenges associated with exponential data growth, in terms of both capital expenditures, as well as operating costs,” said Rob Christ, founder and director, Databasement. “By employing Acopia’s ARX™ file virtualization switches, combined with its FreedomFabric™ network operating system software, we can fully leverage advances in silicon, network infrastructure, and industry standard systems to build highly customized, highly scalable, and robust file management solutions for our customers, designed explicitly to overcome these challenges.”

Acopia’s FreedomFabric network operating system, combined with its award-winning ARX series intelligent file virtualization platforms – including the ARX 6000, ARX 1000, and ARX 500, delivers the industry's first platform-neutral, network-based, file virtualization solution. Customer benefits include:

    -- Freedom of choice
        -- Organizations are free to leverage the technology that most appropriately addresses their business need(s), regardless of platform or vendor.
    -- Automated online storage management
        -- Administrators are able to perform common storage management tasks such as adds, moves, and changes during regular business hours, without downtime or manual
           reconfiguration.
    -- Simplified access
        -- The complex mapping to multiple devices where data physically resides is dramatically simplified.

Acopia's FreedomFabric software also provides the basis for enforcing powerful automated intelligent data management policies, including:

    -- Non-disruptive data migrations move data across heterogeneous storage devices to facilitate seamless server consolidation, platform upgrades, and vendor switches.
    -- Automated storage tiering places data on the appropriate storage tier automatically and manages the data lifecycle over time, reducing capital expenditures (CAPEX) and shrinking
       backup and recovery windows.
    -- Efficient data replication of file data between heterogeneous storage devices for more efficient and cost effective disaster recovery.
    -- Dynamic load balancing distributes demand across existing storage devices dynamically, improving application performance. 

"We are delighted to join with Databasement at this year’s Storage Expo Belgium, and with the opportunity it affords us to highlight the powerful combination of Databasement’s enterprise storage solutions design and implementation expertise, managed storage services, and consulting services with Acopia’s ground-breaking ARX systems and FreedomFabric OS technology. Together, we are able to offer the Benelux marketplace the most open, extensible, and massively scalable file storage management solutions possible,” said Patrick van Arendonk, regional manager, Benelux, Acopia Networks. 

For further information on Databasement, please visit: http://www.en.databasement.eu/?pub_Id=174.

For further information on Storage Expo, Belgium, please visit: http://www.storage-expo.be/sites/www_storage-expo_be/en/index.asp.