Acopia tunes up Warner Music data

Acopia has invented the first switching platform that enables enterprises to globally access, manage and optimise unstructured data while making better use of their existing server and storage infrastructures.

This unstructured data outside of the database can consist of about 80 percent of a company's whole data. These new products, the ARX6000 and ARX1000, provide a global view to each application without the need to reconfigure or add additional mount points.

They eliminate islands of storage to transform today's data centres into "on-demand" resources for global applications.

Christopher Lynch, president and CEO of Acopia said. "Managing unstructured data, and its associated IT infrastructure, is clearly one of the most daunting tasks for CIOs in large enterprises today. Our customers report that up to 85 percent of their business information exists as unstructured file data, and most of their initiatives to virtualise the infrastructure, and improve the capital and operational costs, don't apply to this unstructured data. Our Adaptive Resource Switches are designed specifically to solve this problem, regardless of whether that data resides in the next room or across the world."

Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst of the enterprise storage group added. "As unstructured data balloons to such a large proportion of all data stored in enterprises today, CIOs are being forced to manage it as part of the data centre infrastructure, not just as content. Existing approaches aren't well suited to handle the breadth and scale that exist within many enterprises today. Acopia's ARX products are the most innovative technology we've seen that address the significant challenges of unstructured data on a global scale."

Merill Lynch and Warner Music plan to deploy the new ARX switches to increase server consolidation, global namespace for clients, data life cycle management, data migration to classes of storage, capacity balancing and enterprise-wide file services.

Andy Brown, chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, said. "Merrill Lynch plans to move to an adaptive IT infrastructure to consolidate its worldwide data centres and reduces its total cost of ownership. Acopia's Adaptive Resource Switches enable this transformation by consolidating the back-end data store while providing global data access to users without disruption. Its network-based approach enables the use of best-in-class file systems, eliminates costly desktop re-configurations, and automatically migrates data without manual intervention or costly application disruption."

The ARX switches work across multi-vendor systems and require no additional software to be installed on the client desktops or storage systems.

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