BlueArc

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BlueArc Corporation

Type	Private
Founded	1998
Headquarters	San Jose, California
Key people	Mike Gustafson, President and CEO Michael Hasley, CFO Shmuel Shottan, CTO Peter Amirkhan, VP Sales, North America Steve Daheb, VP Marketing & Business Development Carlo Garbagnati, VP Engineering Robert Harvey, VP Operations Chris McBride, VP Customer Operations
Industry	Data storage devices
Products	Titan 1100, 2100, 2200, 2500, 3100 and 3200
Website	www.bluearc.com

BlueArc Corporation is a network storage device manufacturer headquartered in San Jose, California. BlueArc offers high performance network storage solutions for both data-driven vertical markets and the horizontal enterprise. The company offers both network attached storage and storage area network solutions, including the Titan 3000 family for highest performance and capacity, and the mid-range 1100 storage system. The 3000 family consists of the 3100 and 3200 models, featuring maximum performance scaling to 200,000 IOPs and 4 petabytes. The 1100 scales to 50,000 IOPs and 128 terabytes.

BlueArc competes with offerings from companies such as EMC, NetApp, Sun Microsystems and smaller companies including Isilon.

BlueArc's product line is differentiated through its hardware architecture, founded on FPGA technology. BlueArc holds the world record for single system and dual system performance on SPECsfs, an NFS test provided by SPEC.org.