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BlueArc Named Fastest Growing High-End NAS
Vendor By Analyst Firm for Third Consecutive Year
Company achieves #2 position in competitive market for second consecutive year
San Jose, Calif. - June 6, 2006
BlueArc® Corporation, the world leader in network storage innovation, today announced that according to Gartner's report, "Market Share: NAS/Unified Storage, Worldwide, 2000-2005," the company achieved significant market penetration and growth. For the second consecutive year, BlueArc has attained the number two position in the high-end standalone NAS segment of the market.
According to Gartner, for the third consecutive year, BlueArc achieved the highest growth rate among the published high-end standalone NAS vendors, achieving two-year revenue growth of 124%, and three-year growth of 246%. According to Gartner, the company increased its market share in this space from 2.9% in 2003 to 7.3% in 2005.
"We believe with BlueArc storage, customers accelerate their NAS and SAN infrastructures without compromising on performance, scalability or manageability," said Mike Gustafson, President and CEO of BlueArc. "BlueArc has always been known for its technology leadership, best represented by our new Titan 2000 series, which delivers industry-leading performance in both Iops and throughput, is the scalability leader and offers enterprise features including a global namespace. The company is in parallel making significant strides on growing market leadership by offering customers solutions that enable new business and product development, providing significant business impact through removing the barriers previously placed and still existing with competitive NAS offerings."
BlueArc solutions enable customers to scale to hundreds of terabytes in a single solution utilizing a single filesystem, all while delivering high-level performance. Customers deploy Titan 2000 systems to accomplish more tasks in less time, to consolidate servers or legacy NAS filers and reduce costs, while greatly simplifying management. With expectations for customers' technology infrastructures ever-growing, the market is increasingly turning to BlueArc Titan to meet unprecedented demands in a variety of markets, from enterprise consolidation and database to Internet services, life sciences, entertainment, oil and gas and the federal government.
Details about the Gartner report, "Market Share: NAS/Unified Storage, Worldwide, 2000-2005", are available at
http://www.gartner.com.
About BlueArc Corporation
BlueArc is the world leader in network storage innovation. BlueArc's Titan storage system family delivers unparalleled performance, scalability and simplicity, enabling customers to accelerate their digital world. Utilizing a unique patented architecture, Titan customers can achieve tasks impossible with alternative systems, implementing tomorrow's solutions today. The company's headquarters are in San Jose, California with European operations based in Bracknell, England. More information on BlueArc is available on the Internet at
www.bluearc.com.
