BlueArc Adds Titan 3000

BlueArc Corporation announced the BlueArc Titan 3000 series of
unified storage solutions, doubling the world-record-holding
performance and capacity of current BlueArc products-at the industry’s
lowest price per IOP, all without increasing energy demands and
environmental impact.

Horizontal enterprises and vertical organizations
in data-driven markets, can now take advantage of improved technology
that has been battle-tested in the world’s most demanding IT
environments, which include Internet services, life sciences,
entertainment, oil and gas exploration, design and simulation and
electronic discovery. Additionally, BlueArc has expanded its leadership
in harnessing the massive growth of unstructured data, through the
introduction of an open application programming interface (API), which
brings the Titan 3000’s leading capabilities to the Company’s diverse
set of application partners.

Customers in all markets are grappling with processes that have
grown incredibly data-intensive and complex due to increasing file
sizes, a broadening user base, multiple remote offices with 24 by 7
data access demands and expanding volumes. From Web 2.0 applications
for collaboration to oil and gas exploration, credit card processing
and visual effects rendering, a wide range of enterprise activities
demand storage flexibility and performance once reserved solely for
hosted environments. As facility and energy costs rise, a flexible and
dynamic infrastructure also promises to help organizations optimize
their capital investments.

With the Titan 3000 series, BlueArc continues to deliver on its
vision for the future-proof organization, where information can be
accessed at the speed of change, enabling companies to scale at a new
velocity. By building on distinctive hardware-based BlueArc storage
architecture, the new Titan 3000 family supports file service
consolidation with usable file system capacity of 256 terabytes-16
times that of the traditional market competition-and four times the
number of virtual servers, aimed to tailor storage offerings and
management to customers’ specific application and environmental
demands.

Customers around the world rely on BlueArc unified storage solutions
to bring important life sciences discoveries to market; deliver high
quality visual effects for award-winning films and entertainment; offer
scalable Internet and application services around the clock, and
discover new sources for the world’s energy. As yesterday’s high
performance demands become increasingly mainstream in both verticals
and the horizontal enterprise, with customers placing intense demands
on storage operations, BlueArc has doubled the performance and scale of
its products with each generation. Thanks to efficiencies in sourcing,
supplier relationships and significant research and development,
BlueArc is debuting the Titan 3000 series, with its new world-record
capabilities, without increasing prices and delivering the lowest cost
per IOP in the industry, thereby offering customers the opportunity to
reduce complexity and simplify their infrastructures all while
increasing their capabilities, but not their budgets.

"The BlueArc Titan 3000 series is designed to help businesses and
organizations capitalize on intelligence by removing the obstacles to
action and innovation," said Mike Gustafson, CEO and president for
BlueArc. "Storage has lagged behind as the rest of the IT
infrastructure has evolved into a utility that users can tap as needed.
The BlueArc Titan 3000 series marks a significant milestone for our
customers and for the company’s vision, and we’re pleased to offer a
unified storage solution so powerful and so cost-effective that it
replaces our current generation of products."

A New Intelligent Platform for File Services
A crucial step to making the most of data is integrating storage
into business processes. The BlueArc Titan 3000 series features a new
open API for partners and customers to create or modify applications to
take advantage of the storage solution’s software suite and underlying
hardware capabilities.

Customers and partners can build intelligent file services with
confidence that Titan’s server architecture will sustain performance,
regardless of the complexity of software applications and features that
are added.

The BlueArc Titan 3000 series offers the Titan 3100 and the Titan
3200, delivering multiple options with respect to performance and
price. Technical highlights of the Titan 3100 and Titan 3200 models
include:

• Titan 3200: Maximum performance of approximately 200,000
  SPECsfs IOPS (Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. System File Server
  Input/Output operations per second), maximum throughput at 20 gigabits
  per second and maximum capacity of 4 petabytes (usable).
• Titan 3100: Maximum performance of approximately 100,000
  SPECsfs IOPS, maximum throughput at 10 gigabits per second and maximum
  capacity at 2 petabytes (usable).

Customers may purchase or upgrade to the BlueArc Titan 3000 series
immediately.

BlueArc Corporation