InfoWorld Names BlueArc Titan 3000 'Best NAS' in Technology of the Year 2009 Awards

Market Wire, January, 2009

BlueArc® Corporation, a leader in scalable, high-performance unified network storage, today announced that the Titan 3000 storage solution, noted for its outstanding platform scalability, management solutions and performance, was declared "Best NAS" as part of the InfoWorld 2009 Technology of the Year Awards in the Systems and Storage Category.

"We are honored to receive InfoWorld's highly acclaimed recognition," said Mike Gustafson, president and CEO of BlueArc. "This accomplishment is a testament to the hard work of our employees and their commitment to engineer revolutionary storage solutions and intelligent functions for more powerful information management."

According to an InfoWorld Test Center review published in August 2008, BlueArc's Titan 3000 achieved a rating of 'Excellent,' scoring 9.3 out of 10. "Combining exceptional scalability, stellar performance, powerful storage applications, and management tools that make even the most complex tasks seem easy, the BlueArc Titan 3000 sums up the best of what you can expect in a file serving system," wrote InfoWorld Test Center senior analyst Mario Apicella.

IDG's InfoWorld, the leading integrated media brand for IT decision makers, recognized 40 products across nine general categories in its 2009 Technology of the Year honors. Selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, the annual awards identify the best and most innovative products on the IT landscape. Winners are drawn from all of the products tested during the past year.

The Titan 3000 series is an enterprise-class storage solution for high-performance applications and enterprise-level data centers. Providing an advanced systems framework, the 3000 series simplifies storage management and administration, enables high systems uptime and optimal performance while reducing the complexities and costs of ownership.

About InfoWorld Media Group

InfoWorld Media Group helps Senior IT Decision Makers choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy, for business impact at their organizations. Rather than merely covering the enterprise technology market, InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, research, and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide both hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com .

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About BlueArc

BlueArc is a leading provider of high-performance unified network storage systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education, Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Our products support both network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN, services on a converged network storage platform.

We enable companies to expand the ways they explore, discover, research, create, process and innovate in data-intensive environments. Our products replace complex and performance-limited products with high performance, scalable and easy to use systems capable of handling the most data intensive applications and environments. Further, we believe that our energy efficient design and our products' ability to consolidate legacy storage infrastructures, dramatically increases storage utilization rates and reduces our customers' total cost of ownership. Information about BlueArc solutions and services can be found at http://www.bluearc.com/ .

Contact: Louis Gray BlueArc Corporation (408) 576-6684 Email Contact