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Air Guard Flight Data Analysis Soars With BlueArc Titan Storage Solution
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SAN JOSE, CA, July 22 / MARKET WIRE/ --
BlueArc? Corporation, a leader in scalable,
high-performance unified network storage, today announced a state air
guard's deployment of a BlueArc Titan 3200 storage solution with a
6x1-gigabit Ethernet connection and 20 terabytes of Fibre Channel storage
for secure data access and fast analysis of massive volumes of information
captured from flight missions. Titan's world-record throughput addresses
the agency's performance needs without adding complexity -- an added
advantage as the system expands to other users around the globe.
BlueArc implemented the solution with value-added reseller West Coast
Technology (WCT), a nationwide specialist in data storage and protection.
"As the agency considered the alternatives to prohibitively complex
technology, we were challenged to find a solution that would deliver
throughput, ease of use and security," said Rick Crane, CEO, WCT. "In our
experience, only BlueArc Titan offers the performance of a storage area
network, the simplicity of network attached storage, and support for
multiple storage formats, so that government customers don't have to make
trade-offs that could jeopardize projects or classified information."
Among other tasks, the BlueArc solution plays an integral part in the final
testing of software for quality assurance before it is implemented in F16
aircraft. A lean team of approximately 35 military personnel from the air
guard, the state air reserve and active U.S. Air Force servicemen,
government and contract staff work together at a National Guard base in the
Southwest. The agency monitors and evaluates flight combat equipment and
systems performance information collected from its squadron of F16 planes.
A single test flight may produce as much as 10 to 15 terabytes of data and
many times, multiple flights occur each day. Collection devices are
connected directly to the air guard's workstations and transferred to the
Titan storage solution for analysis, and then data is archived to tape.
Faced with the challenge of enhancing its storage infrastructure just
months before summer and peak test conditions, the air guard's information
technology team pursued an aggressive competitive evaluation of several
leading storage products, with the additional requirement of a physical
demonstration of throughput. In its San Jose lab, BlueArc demonstrated
Titan 2000 series sustained throughput of 500 megabytes, and the customer
chose the Titan 3000 series for performance even beyond the agency's
extreme-use case.
West Coast Technology and BlueArc deployed a storage infrastructure with 16
workstations and tape-based backup, using CommVault backup software. Titan
3200 provides the added advantage of capacity in excess of other vendors'
systems, making it possible to deploy Titan at the head of the storage
infrastructure and 20 terabytes of disk space appearing as a single file
system behind it. As a result, the air guard's staff does not need
additional expertise to manage multiple storage devices.
The air guard expects Titan's performance and capacity will serve its
changing needs and prove cost-effective for the long term. Recognizing that
other agencies will have use for the data it collects, the air guard is
considering offering analysis as a service to other organizations, and
anticipates a corresponding increase in storage capacity. Titan 3000 series
can expand up to 4 petabytes of usable space to accommodate the air guard's
future plans.
About West Coast Technology (WCT)
WCT was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. A
leader in network storage technology, WCT's consulting and professional
services have developed and evolved, winning numerous awards making it one
of the most sought after companies for storage products and services --
Nationwide.
WCT is a full service storage and backup solutions provider offering the
latest in networked storage technology, which includes SAN and NAS. WCT
has developed strategic partnerships with the leading storage industry
manufacturers to address today's data storage challenges. Through its
expertise, products and total solution approach, WCT provides the maximum
advantage. Information about WCT solutions and services can be found at
http://www.wct.com/.
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/.
Contact:
Louis Gray
BlueArc Corporation
(408) 576-6684Email Contact
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