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BlueArc Accelerates Real-Time On-Demand Internet Services

Great Internet service companies are made through ingenuity, creative content, and the ability to recognize and respond to rapidly changing customer demand. Lightning fast storage is the accelerator. Nonstop customer service is vital. BlueArc is there to help you serve formidable and profitable spikes in demand -- all while handling billions of files and hundreds of terabytes.

The world's leading Internet services companies know the keys to business growth revolve around ways to increase their customer base, improve user experience and expand the quality and quantity of service offerings. Faced with unpredictable spikes in service and sudden increases in user or application load, these companies look at innovative new technology to help them better manage such fluctuations and eliminate outages. Internet services companies that are able to apply the right technology to the task have been able to differentiate themselves in the crowded market by delivering a level of service excellence that exceeds customer expectation.

As the foundation for storage infrastructure, BlueArc offers industryleading performance whether usage is growing smoothly or rapidly changing. High growth operations managing exploding data requirements appreciate the flexibility to expand BlueArc network storage systems to a massive 16 petabytes (TB) while maintaining performance and reliability. This reduces the mounting support and software costs that result from propagation of storage units÷not to mention data migration and floor space savings. BlueArc meets or exceeds Internet service performance requirements in all three critical areas: total system data capacity, simultaneous accesses by users, and management of billions of files.

Based on a uniquely modular architecture, BlueArc systems are designed to ensure that deployment or upgrade is as easy and affordable as possible. With features like Tiered Storage that allow mixing high-performance, "active file" disk drives with lowercost, "archival" disk drives in the same self-contained unit, BlueArc storage offers the assurance of a low-cost, all-in-one solution. And, when rapid growth in services prompts the need to quickly expand storage or increase performance, BlueArc offers simple, modular upgrades that require no expensive "fork-lift" replacements.

BlueArc storage solutions:

Optimized for stability and high data throughput. Using BlueArc's Titan, today's Internet service providers are able to eliminate the need to distribute data across a large number of systems in order to handle simultaneous user load and capacity requirements. They can also eliminate storage constraints and remove the need for specialized infrastructures. Thanks to Titan, companies are enjoying greater improvement in user performance and reduced service outages. When faced with large data sets or billions of files and directories, the Titan comes through with no performance degradation and no reduction in access times for users or applications. Instead of requiring the use of multiple systems to balance the load, Titan's unified, patented architecture seamlessly handles rapid growth in demand and greatly simplifies data management.

BlueArc systems are battle-tested in the most stringent real-world settings. And with in-house expertise in Internet applications and web analytics, BlueArc offers professional service and support teams dedicated to improving storage infrastructures for growing Internet businesses. From hosted service vendors to online analytics firms to content delivery providers, Internet service firms enjoy higher service reliability, smoother growth, improved service performance, and lower costs by deploying BlueArc.

Solutions that streamline access to services and help contain infrastructure costs.

Titan, built upon BlueArc's patented hardwareaccelerated architecture, delivers the most flexible, high performance, highly scalable, network storage solution available today. By maximizing data access and user loads with extremely low latency, Titan ensures customers can handle dramatic increases in the number of simultaneous access connections. In addition, Titan's enterprise-class management tools provide the assurance that customers will always have on-going file access. The end result ensures excellent customer service and the ability to scale quickly up to hundreds of terabytes and billions of files ö all at a lower, overall infrastructure cost.

Internet services are constantly growing, BlueArc's innovativemodular storage solution scales with your business.

In today's production environments, as new server and networking technologies are deployed, storage systems must be upgraded to meet the growing demands of the customer base and increased content. To scale capacity and performance, most storage system require an expensive, "forklift" upgrade. BlueArc's Titan eliminates these painful hardware replacement costs, by delivering a more scalable and modular solution with maximum flexibility that allows Internet services companies to upgrade server modules and capacity without replacing the entire system. In fact, with Titan's ability to scale to up to 512TB, it will continue to grow as more content is created and the customer base increases.

Tiered Storage enables a more cost effective content storage solution.

Titan is built to address a variety of storage needs and budgets. Some Internet service environments call for maximum performance, while others may require lower performance at lower cost. Unlike traditional solutions that require a separatestorage server to address each need, BlueArc's unique Multi- Tiered Storage design supports any combination of fast Fibre Channel or lower cost SATA drives behind a single Titan. This allows Internet service companies to drive down the cost of deploying and maintaining separate storage, without reducing the customer experience. BlueArc's Tiered Storage reduces the cost and complexity associated with matching different disk technology to each unique Internet services package or application. This allin-one design allows administrators to match application performance needs, storage capacity or costs on Titan without deploying additional storage systems and while driving down maintenance, hardware and software costs.

Innovative, profitable, and reliable Internet services result from ingenious responses to customer need matched with brilliant use of ever more powerful technology. Internet service firms face a formidable environment of data explosion, rapid growth in users, expanding customer expectation, and often dizzying spikes in demand. In this environment, a storage system that limits growth in user base, content capacity, or responsiveness to surges in demand is a bottleneck to your growth. BlueArc storage eliminates that bottleneck by delivering fast, integrated storage that cuts costs, eases growth, and fortifies your business.