BlueArc Will Support the Data Discovery Suite of Partner HDS

Aiming to help eliminate the thousands of hours and millions of dollars
of productivity that companies lose as a result of employees’
ineffective search for information, BlueArc Corporation announced support
for the Hitachi Data Discovery Suite unveiled today at CeBIT by Hitachi
Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd..

The search and discovery solution, integrated with
BlueArc’s new data and file management API, builds on the company’s new
Titan 3000 unified storage platform to help data-driven businesses
respond quickly to customers and comply with regulatory requirements.

"Powered by the Hitachi Data Discovery Suite, BlueArc gives
customers in industries from life sciences to litigation support the
high-performance, reliable option they’ve long sought for
file-intensive search and discovery," said Michael Hay, senior director
of product strategy, Hitachi Data Systems. "BlueArc is a crucial ally
in our vision for integrated file and content services."

Based on a distinctive hardware-based architecture that delivers the
world’s fastest storage performance, BlueArc Titan technology anchors
the Hitachi High-performance NAS (HNAS) solution and provides an
intelligent platform for file services. The Hitachi Data Discovery
Suite extends that platform to data management, for simplified,
ultra-fast and incredibly accurate search and retrieval of files from
the entire storage cluster namespace. Users and applications can search
multiple data sources using a single query through a single interface
to HNAS and the Hitachi Content Archive Platform.

"Until now, most search tools simply haven’t matched the capacity of
BlueArc unified storage solutions," said Mike Gustafson, CEO, BlueArc.
"The Hitachi search and discovery solution makes the most of Titan
servers’ scalability and speed. It’s the latest evidence that both
companies’ technological strengths and our close working relationship
are delivering on our vision for business at the speed of change."

BlueArc support for the Hitachi Data Discovery Suite supports the
company’s intelligent platform for file services strategy including an
application programming interface which enables customers and partners
in BlueArc’s ecosystem to integrate Titan 3000 server features into
custom applications. BlueArc has qualified both the Hitachi Data
Discovery Suite and the Hitachi Content Archive Platform with the
company’s Titan product line.

BlueArc Corporation

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation