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INDUSTRY LEADERS ENDORSE BlueArc MULTI-TIERED STORAGE

BlueArc Corporation, a leader in high performance, highly scalable network attached storage (NAS), has announced industry-wide support for its Multi-Tiered Storage (MTS) storage solution, to provide enterprise-class customers with the ability to deploy and manage high performance, general purpose, near-line and archival data on a single, online NAS platform. Through alliances with a broad range of storage networking partners including Bycast, CommVault Systems, Enigma Data Systems, KVS, and LEGATO Systems Inc, customers gain a strong competitive advantage as they are now able to access significantly more data online at a fraction of the cost of other storage systems currently on the market.

With the introduction of MTS, BlueArc has provided customers with the ability to seamlessly integrate and manage various types of storage within a single BlueArc SiliconServer Storage System, effectively tailoring the solution to meet their unique application requirements. As a result, the optimal blend of high performance, capacity and low cost can be achieved without having to acquire and maintain multiple storage systems, thus allowing enterprises to significantly reduce storage management complexity within the data center.

"The strategy of keeping more data online is right in line with the thoughts of IT professionals today," said Tony Prigmore, senior analyst, Enterprise Storage Group. "Partners will be able to take advantage of a Multi-Tiered Storage solution that helps customers access additional applications as needed for a competitive advantage."

"The ability to automatically specify the appropriate storage tiers where data resides, provides our partners and customers with price/performance flexibility that has never before been possible," said Jeff Allen, senior vice president, Marketing for BlueArc Corporation. "No matter what the application may be -- email, backup, medical imaging or security -- our customers can now keep more data online at a much lower cost, as they can effectively segment data by price, performance and capacity."

BlueArc Partners Support Multi-Tiered Storage Solution

"With the explosion of data in medical imaging and life sciences, organizations require high performance and cost effective methods to archive and distribute imaging data," said Geordan Chester, vice president, Professional Services for Bycast. "By matching the scalability and performance of the SiliconServer Architecture with the availability of low-cost online disk storage, BlueArc MTS, combined with Bycast's Endeavour MultiSite, enable our customers to now have access to a superior, open and highly interoperable solution that enhances patient care and improves efficiency."

"BlueArc's Multi-Tiered Storage allows it to provide its customers and partners with the ability to take advantage of an online archiving technology that resides behind a single, common NAS server, combined with fast online production storage space," said Dave West, vice president of Business Development, CommVault Systems. "This architecture is perfectly suited for CommVault's data migration and backup products, which are designed to take advantage of disk format archiving by using the native capabilities of disk drives."

"BlueArc's Multi-Tiered Storage offers unprecedented capacity, ease of access and performance to solve growing digital storage demands. Enigma Data System's SmartMove is designed specifically to manage the effective use of tiered disk storage architectures," said Duncan Wright, chief executive officer, Enigma Data Systems. "Together we bring on-line archiving and a scalable, managed data storage solution for our joint customers' project storage applications."

"With the explosive growth of documents and email, KVS' Enterprise Vault archiving platform for Microsoft Exchange and SharePointTM frees users from quota restrictions and maintains performance. BlueArc's Multi-Tiered Storage offers an optimum storage platform for an Enterprise Vault content archive," said Andrew Barnes, director of Global Marketing for KVS Inc. "BlueArc's NAS offers low-cost, scalable, highly available enterprise class archive storage for the Enterprise Vault, exactly right for our joint customers' needs."

"With the introduction of BlueArc's Multi-Tiered Storage, customers now have expanded options for how they architect their data protection environment," said Victoria Grey, vice president of Information Protection, LEGATO Systems. "This storage architecture will enable customers to leverage the benefits of LEGATO NetWorker DiskBackup option for seamless, high performance data backup and restore. In addition, both LEGATO DiskXtender and EmailXtender can take advantage of MTS for policy-managed migration/rapid retrieval of reference files and email, respectively."

For more information about BlueArc's partner program, please visit www.bluearc.com.