Axio Systems, one of the foremost providers of high-end technology
solutions to its many customers in Belgium will present a seminar
entitled, "Intelligent File Virtualization: Have You Seen My File?" on
Thursday, January 25, 2007, from 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (14h00 - 16h30)
in Zaventem, Belgium, featuring speakers from Acopia Networks(R),
Inc., a leader in high-performance intelligent file virtualization,
and Sun Microsystems, a premier provider of technologies that power
the world's most important markets.
The agenda will include Philippe De Meyer, consultant, Axio
Systems, speaking on how to handle complex data growth and management;
Filip Vercauteren, solutions architect, Storage Group, Sun
Microsystems Belgium, will deliver a technology refresh on
network-attached storage; and Patrick Van Arendonk, manager Benelux,
Acopia Networks, will present a file area network (FAN) approach for
optimizing file management. The formal remarks will be followed by a
demonstration of file virtualization technology.
"The rapid growth of file data, often driven by new applications,
such as SOA and Web 2.0, is creating a complexity crisis that can only
be addressed by a network resident solution. Taking a page from the
success of server virtualization, the new concept of FAN, or file area
networking, brings the power of virtualization to storage and
networking - allowing users to reduce cost and complexity while
regaining control," said Van Arendonk. "I look forward to discussing
this topic in greater detail with the attendees, as well as my
industry colleagues."
"We are honored to join with Axio Systems and Acopia to discuss
how file servers and/or NAS systems can be networked in an intelligent
fashion to enable transparent movement of data between storage tiers,
centralize data protection, and significantly reduce cost and
complexity," said Vercauteren. "I believe customers will benefit
greatly from the information, as well as the hands-on demonstration
opportunity, this seminar will present."
"The topic for this seminar was driven by the fact that we were
consistently hearing from customers that the challenges they were
facing around the insurmountable growth of widely distributed,
unstructured file data was a key challenge that needed to be tackled
in the coming year," said De Meyer. "We are delighted to be able to
join with Sun and Acopia - true leaders in their respective spaces, to
discuss such a timely and critical topic for our customers."
Further details on the seminar can be found at:
http://www.axio.be/seminar_acopia.html.
About Acopia Networks
Acopia Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance
intelligent file virtualization. Its family of ARX systems 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 systems
help IT executives to reduce management overhead and accelerate
business workflow. For further information about Acopia's products and
services, please visit http://www.acopia.com, call 978-513-2900 (US) /
49-89-944-90-165 (Europe), or email info@acopia.com.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun
in the development of technologies that power the world's most
important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building
communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the
Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on
the Web at http://sun.com.
About Axio Systems
For more than 15 years, Axio Systems has been a leader in offering
high-end IT architecture to customers; with a special focus in data
intensive environments, such as those found in media, bioscience, and
research organizations, among others. As these architectures are
critical to the client's environment, Axio ensure that its solutions
are based on high-quality hardware and software. As the installed
hardware and software take up a central position in the environment,
it must be supported by an organization that is able to quickly and
efficiently respond to problems. Axio engineers complete a thorough
training program, fully qualifying and certifying them to respond to
any technical questions or queries from customers. For further
information, please visit http://www.axio.be.
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