Award-winning Combination Simplifies Data Recovery in Complex IT Environments: BlueArc Corporation, a market leader in scalable, high-performance network storage, today announced that the company’s Titan 2000 unified network storage family has been certified for interoperability with BakBone NetVault: Backup, delivering a solution that provides customers with enterprise-class capabilities in data protection and disaster recovery, while reducing complexity and offering top-tier performance. For data-driven businesses and any enterprise that can’t afford to risk the loss of critical data, BlueArc’s Titan 2000 family of storage solutions and BakBone’s NetVault: Backup data protection software offer a combination of breakthrough storage performance and fast recovery for instant data availability and multi-platform data protection. Since 2002, through multiple product generations, BlueArc and BakBone have collaborated to offer interoperability between the two companies’ product suites. “Together, BlueArc and BakBone offer our mutual customers peace of mind,” said Jeff Drescher, vice president of marketing at BakBone. “Customers see us as a logical combination--BakBone’s products simplify data management in Linux and multi-platform environments, and BlueArc’s Titan 2000 helps remove complexity and adds performance to the storage component of backup and recovery.” The BlueArc Titan 2000 storage family delivers record performance on multiple third-party benchmarks, scalability to 512 terabytes in a single global namespace and a leading virtualization framework. Titan 2000 systems have been tested with NetVault: Backup, which offers comprehensive backup across Linux, Windows, and Solaris operating systems. “Our customers turn to BlueArc not only for storage network performance and scalability that can handle ever-increasing demands, but also for technology that is cost-effective,” said Steve Daheb, senior vice president, marketing and business development, BlueArc. “Coupled with our latest technology enhancements for server consolidation, BakBone solutions provide an outstanding return on investment in a vital aspect of infrastructure.” BlueArc and BakBone both recently earned the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards for their products.