Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
SAN JOSE, CA - April 8, 2008
BlueArc® Corporation, a leader in scalable, high-performance unified network storage, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant in the "Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions, 1H08" report. BlueArc's worldwide customers in data-driven industries such as Internet services, life sciences, entertainment, oil and gas exploration, design and simulation and electronic discovery rely on BlueArc Titan servers' distinctive hardware-based architecture and proven world-record performance, scalability and reliability-without increased energy consumption.
Mike Gustafson, CEO and president, BlueArc, said, "We believe our positioning in the visionaries quadrant by Gartner validates our commitment to unsurpassed storage performance and reliability. Building on our innovative, hardware-based approach to storage technology, the BlueArc Titan 3000 server family reduces data center barriers to business potential and advances our vision for business at the speed of change."
In "Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions, 1H08" by Pushan Rinnen, et. al. (March 15, 2008), Gartner reports that "Storage administrators who have been focusing on managing their storage area networks (SANs) are facing new storage challenges, especially in consolidation of distributed file servers, the high-throughput requirement of rich media and HPC applications, and low-cost, easy-to-grow disk storage for Ôbulk' digital content."
As BlueArc customers worldwide experience explosive growth in unstructured data, the BlueArc Titan family of unified storage solutions delivers up to 200,000 SPECsfs IOPS (Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. system file server input/output operations per second), maximum throughput of 20 gigabits per second and maximum capacity of 4 petabytes. At the same time, BlueArc solutions' energy requirements remain unchanged, and top-of-the-line Titan 3000 series servers are priced to provide the industry's lowest price per IOP.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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/.
