Acopia Networks, which provides high-performance, intelligent file virtualization, announced it will showcase ARX solutions at the Storage World Conference, Fall 2006 that takes place on September 19-21, 2006 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Kirby Wadsworth, Acopia's senior VP of marketing and business development, will join a panel discussion entitled, "The Virtues of Virtualization", Acopia Networks, which provides high-performance, intelligent file virtualization, announced it will showcase ARX solutions at the Storage World Conference, Fall 2006 that takes place on September 19-21, 2006 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Kirby Wadsworth, Acopia’s senior VP of marketing and business development, will join a panel discussion entitled, “The Virtues of Virtualization”, which takes place on Tuesday, September 19 at 2:00 PM. The panel will examine the current state of the storage virtualization market as well as its anticipated rapid growth.“High cost, stranded capacity, disruptive processes, and performance issues are persistent problems in today’s enterprise datacenter,” said Wadsworth. “The raw cost of storage is falling, but IT budgets aren’t benefiting because the disruption and switching costs associated with traditional technologies are high. IT managers feel locked in. Intelligent file virtualization breaks the bonds, letting customers take full and immediate advantage of new technologies, and changing market conditions.” He added, “I am delighted to have been invited to join such an esteemed group of panel participants to discuss and debate the current status and future direction of the file virtualization space.” Acopia will offer a demonstration that will highlight the value of intelligent file virtualization, and its ability to simplify file storage management. Specifically, it provides the ability to: Migrate large numbers of files, transparently to users, without scheduled outages Tier data to appropriate storage media automatically and continuously – freeing expensive high-performance disk and dramatically reducing storage and backup costs Increase utilization and optimize performance with advanced real-time load balancing Replicate data efficiently and flexibly to ensure data protection and high availability Software Development