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BlueArc Achieves Growing Momentum and New Customers

Significant Customer Wins Achieved in Corporate Enterprise and Vertical Markets, as Average System Sale Doubles in Size From Previous Year

STORAGE DECISIONS -- BlueArc® Corporation, provider of the world's highest performance network storage systems, today announced several new customer wins from their just-completed quarter ending October 31, 2005.

During the quarter, BlueArc added to its strength in key vertical industries, including Entertainment, Internet Services, Life Sciences and the federal government, as well as expanding its reach in the corporate enterprise, securing new accounts like Bechtel National, Inc.'s Waste Treatment Plant Project, Evans & Sutherland, Freeze.com, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, among others. Additionally, BlueArc continues to see great expansion within the company's installed base. Some of these customers include ChoiceOne Communications, discover-e Legal, Mr. X Visual Effects, Penn State University, Revenue Science, and WebTrends, who each contributed to BlueArc's growth in the most recent quarter.

New customers recognize Titan's ability to scale in performance, user load and capacity well beyond traditional NAS systems. BlueArc's installed base continues to rapidly expand their Titan systems through adding new applications to the system to benefit from Titan's leading performance and expanding towards its industry-leading 256 terabyte capacity. By implementing Titan, which has been measured as the world's fastest storage system and file system, according to multiple third-party benchmarks, customers are able to achieve tasks previously gated by an insufficient storage infrastructure, and greatly simplify management through elimination of costly infrastructure through storage consolidation.

"The Bechtel National, Inc. Waste Treatment Plant Project was looking for a storage solution that enabled the consolidation and reduction of a number of direct attached storage servers, improved storage utilization, improved storage systems' availability and performance, reduced overall storage management and administration, and leveraged the project's existing network architecture without the addition of a costly Fibre Channel network," said Michael Maier, Information Systems & Technology Manager, of Bechtel National, Inc.'s Waste Treatment Plant Project. "The BlueArc Titan was selected, configured with 70 terabytes of Fibre Channel and SATA storage, as the system that best met the project's needs."

Freeze.com, a leading Internet Services company serving millions of customers each day, selected Titan at the heart of their storage infrastructure to deliver a solution capable of scaling in performance and capacity in line with the company's rapid growth.

"BlueArc serves as the core storage for our virtualized server environment as the Titan currently offers unmatched performance in the industry. We are able to scale servers and network resources in near real-time, allowing us to shift and react to any market change at any time," said Kyle Ohme, Director of Information Technology for Freeze.com. "As our business is growing quickly and stakes are higher then ever, we require a scalable and robust platform that we can rely on day in and day out. Storage is not just about retaining assets, it's about performance, and better performance offers a better user experience. Millions of people a day will indirectly use this storage -- to choose any other NAS platform to power our network is not a risk I was willing to take."

With more than 18 months of Titan market success, customers are deploying larger systems more quickly and as a primary component of storage consolidation. In 2005, the average Titan system deployed has featured more than 25 terabytes, double the average capacity of 2004.

"Customer adoption and deployment of Titan has accelerated significantly in the last several months as enterprise customers and vertically focused customers alike are realizing the real-world benefits of our unique hardware-driven architecture," Mike Gustafson, president and CEO of BlueArc, said. "Titan enables customers to do more, faster, while reducing management overhead -- driving increased revenues and decreased costs, whether they are looking to create special effects for blockbuster movies, analyze the human genome, or reduce server sprawl."

BlueArc's Titan Storage System is backed by a unique hardware-accelerated architecture that allows customers to scale their storage systems far beyond any other servers available on the market today. Titan's inherent ability to support primary, nearline, and archive storage within the same storage system enables customers to upgrade the system, utilizing the latest disk technology, when needed. Automatically storing data on the most appropriate storage dramatically reduces cost while maintaining access times consistent with application requirements. Titan allows a single file system to grow up to 256 terabytes and delivers throughput of up to 20 Gigabits per second (Gbps). The architecture adapts to changing application or capacity needs, thus simplifying management, accelerating productivity and protecting a customer's long-term investment. Alongside the system's hardware benefits, Titan also features an industry-leading software suite including virtual servers, policy-based data migration, iSCSI support, remote mirroring and a WORM file system.

About BlueArc

BlueArc(r) Corporation changes the economics of network storage by helping customers manage more information with less effort. BlueArc's Titan storage systems enable organizations to maximize performance and reduce operating costs through the movement of software functions into programmable hardware. Since 1998, BlueArc has provided scalable and reliable products, services and solutions to help enterprises achieve unmatched productivity and profitability from their data. The company's headquarters are in San Jose, California, with UK operations based in Bracknell, England. More information on BlueArc is available on the Internet at www.bluearc.com.

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