Business Benefits

By eliminating the constraints that currently exist in accessing and managing file data, the F5 Acopia ARX solutions help enterprises achieve measurable business benefits and solid ROI. 

Reduced capital expenditure through storage tiering and automated ILM policy. 
The ARX virtualizes heterogeneous storage resources and dynamically matches business and application needs to storage tier. This allows enterprises to realize significant capital expenditure savings by automatically moving non-critical business data off of expensive storage resources to lower cost storage alternatives.

Deferred capital expenditure through higher utilization of existing file storage systems.
The ARX "pools" existing file storage devices, making unused storage capacity automatically available to clients and applications.  This maximizes investments in storage capacity and reduces new expenditures.

Reduced operational costs through automated, non-disruptive storage management. 
The ARX automates data management tasks that were previously performed manually, and eliminates the disruption previously associated with those operations. Tasks such as provisioning, decommissioning, migration, tiering and load balancing can be performed online, transparently to users.

Improved business workflow by scaling the performance of existing file storage devices.
The ARX offers real-time load balancing policies that dynamically distribute demand across many physical storage devices, eliminating bottlenecks before they happen and improving application performance and business workflow.

Simplified access to file storage infrastructure.
The ARX consolidates the numerous client-to-resource mappings that exist in current file storage environments into a more manageable set of mappings that do not change. This dramatically simplifies storage management tasks and eliminates the need for time-consuming, error-prone reconfigurations.

Enhanced disaster recovery and centralized backup. 
The ARX intelligently replicates data at the file level, across heterogeneous storage systems, to minimize capacity and bandwidth use and dramatically reduce costs.  Acopia supports replication across multiple, geographically distributed sites, making it ideal for disaster recovery and centralized backup.

Proven Return on Investment
Acopia products simplify the management of file storage, improve the utilization of existing resources and automate labor intensive data management tasks.  As a result, the ARX provides significant capital and operational expenditure benefits including dramatically reduced operational overhead and lower yearly disk spending.  In addition, the ARX increases the throughput of critical business processes by scaling the existing file storage infrastructure, which often translates into real business value like increased revenues, better customer service, or faster time to market.