SAN JOSE, CA–( EMWNews – 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″(1) 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 ‘bulk’ 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/.

(1) Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End NAS Solutions, 1H08”

by Pushan Rinnen, et. al. March 15, 2008