Storage Virtualization Delivers Throughput Essential to Greater Server and Operating System Utilization, Leverages Benefits of NFS.
SAN JOSE, CA - April 8, 2008
Paving the way for customers to extract even greater value from IT infrastructure utilization, BlueArc® Corporation, a leader in scalable, high-performance unified network storage, today announced that its Titan family of storage systems has been certified for interoperability with the VMware server virtualization software platform. Coupled with VMware solutions, BlueArc storage virtualization supports a holistic approach to consolidation, helping enterprises use the combined offering as a strategic element in a comprehensive plan to further reduce total cost of operation.
"Certification of BlueArc solutions with the VMware virtualization platform is an important milestone on the path toward our vision for the future-proof enterprise, capable of accessing information at the speed of change," said Steve Daheb, senior vice president, marketing and business development, BlueArc. "Together, BlueArc solutions and VMware software help our customers get the most value from IT resources and become even more responsive to technical and business demands."
By deploying BlueArc storage virtualization solutions in combination with VMware server virtualization software, enterprise customers can simplify consolidation of data-and consolidate more data than ever, as BlueArc Titan solutions' world-record performance surpasses that of all other network storage products. Distinguished by its capacity for consolidating multiple applications and storage protocols, BlueArc Titan server technology has been certified for network attached storage (NAS) and Internet-protocol-based small computer systems interface (iSCSI) connectivity through the VMware Technology Alliance Program™.
Together, BlueArc and VMware products also simplify the challenges of server infrastructure consolidation. BlueArc Titan server support for the Network File System (NFS) standard for data access delivers both file-based input/output and throughput that are vital to smooth-and accurate-operation of virtualized infrastructure, in addition to simplifying the integration of storage into a consolidated server environment. The Titan family of storage solutions, which delivers world-record performance and scales to 4 petabytes in a single namespace, features a virtualization framework that helps streamline storage consolidation.
Certified interoperability with VMware solutions follows the debut of Titan 3000 and other recent BlueArc product and partner developments that help customers harness the power of world-record-breaking performance and storage capacity, toward BlueArc's vision for business that can access information at the speed of change.
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/.
