Ocarina Networks and BlueArc Extend Partnership to Mid-Market Customers

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - July 9, 2009) - Ocarina Networks today announced an expanded partnership with BlueArc Corporation, highlighted by support for the company's new Mercury™ series, a premium, network storage platform that delivers capacity and performance-optimized storage solutions to the mid-range commercial market. BlueArc Mercury is a powerful, cost-effective file system and hardware platform that allows mid-size companies with enterprise-sized storage challenges to consolidate users, applications and storage systems in order to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO).

"We've worked closely with BlueArc to develop a version of our content-aware deduplication and compression offering for the company's Titan NAS product line, and see the new Mercury series as a logical extension of our partnership," said Dave Withers, VP of business development at Ocarina Networks. "By combining Ocarina's capacity optimization technology with BlueArc's strengths in data management, performance and scalability, the Mercury series answers the call of the broader market for NAS storage typically reserved for HPC deployments."

Ocarina and BlueArc recently announced the BlueArc Intelligent Tiered Storage with Ocarina 3400 for BlueArc -- a fully integrated storage solution that reduces the cost of storing online data archives on a BlueArc Titan Network Storage System. Ocarina's patented content-aware storage optimization technology combined with BlueArc's award-winning Titan storage solutions addresses the challenge of archiving massive amounts of data cost-effectively without sacrificing performance or adding complexity. The Ocarina 3400 for BlueArc offers the flexibility to take advantage of a true tiered storage strategy for exceptionally efficient archiving to the most cost-effective and optimal storage tier. And now with BlueArc's Mercury series, mid-market customers can also take advantage of these cost saving benefits.

"The Ocarina and BlueArc technology is an ideal solution for customers who are looking to do more with less in maximizing storage management and expenditures, and are unwilling to compromise on scalability or performance," continued Withers.

Ocarina Networks provides the industry's first solution to leverage patented content-aware object deduplication and compression technologies to enable capacity-optimized storage of online data.

About Ocarina

Ocarina is a leader in online storage optimization solutions. Organizations of all sizes use Ocarina's content-aware optimization technology to reduce their storage footprint and achieve up to a ten-fold increase on their current storage capacity.

Based in San Jose, Calif., Ocarina is privately-held and financed by leading investors JAFCO Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners. For more information, visit www.ocarinanetworks.com.

About BlueArc

BlueArc partners with customers to solve their storage and data management-related business challenges. BlueArc's best-of-breed, high-performance, highly scalable and cost-effective storage solutions help to accelerate our customers' success. Information about BlueArc solutions and services can be found at http://www.bluearc.com/

Contact Information: Media Contacts: Jason Throckmorton or Melissa Biles LaunchSquad 415-625-8555 ocarina(at)launchsquad(dot)com