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Global Relay Delivers Enterprise-Class Message Archiving, Compliance and Electronic Discovery, Leveraging BlueArc Titan Network Storage System Infrastructure

Global Relay helps customers meet stringent federal agency requirements through offering a bullet-proof system for business communication storage and retrieval.

Los Angeles, CA - Legaltech - June 5, 2006 BlueArc^® Corporation, the world leader in network storage innovation, today announced that Global Relay Communications, a leading provider of world-class message archival, regulatory compliance and electronic discovery solutions, has deployed the company's Titan network storage systems with more than fifty terabytes of capacity in multiple datacenters, offering customers unparalleled system reliability, performance and capacity, enabling them to meet stringent compliance requirements on message storage and security for regulated industries.

Global Relay provides enterprise-class hosted e-mail and instant message archival, compliance and electronic discovery services to a wide array of customers, including the securities brokerage, banking and healthcare industries. The company's services manage, protect and secure customers' critical business communications, in parallel with delivering best in class archival, filtering, search, retrieval and monitoring capabilities. Global Relay's hundreds of compliance archiving customers include the Chicago Stock Exchange, who selected Global Relay in part due to the company's robust technology infrastructure, which ensures anytime access and unequalled security.

For today's leading businesses, e-mail messaging is their lifeblood, and instant access to this data, whether for internal or external review, is essential. In an increasingly-regulated marketplace, the ability to index, archive and efficiently conduct customized searches, filtering and monitoring of corporate messaging can reduce legal costs by millions of dollars and avoid companies finding themselves on the wrong side of a judge's decision or an SEC audit. Global Relay differentiates itself from competitors on the market by archiving customer data in real-time, before legal actions are needed, in a proactive approach, rather than a reactive response. The company delivers high-speed offsite storage and backup, and for the last seven years, has provided outsourced messaging solutions without a single security breach or incident of data loss.

To continue this impeccable record, while expanding the company's capabilities to take on increasing customer demand, Global Relay has invested in the ultimate levels of reliability, implementing BlueArc as the core message storage platform in its mirrored data centers situated on the East and West coasts of North America, as well as for its systems build out in the United Kingdom. Global Relay selected BlueArc to replicate data between data centers, to store data in WORM format for compliance, and address the company's biggest concerns - performance, scalability, and total storage capacity.

"There was no alternative - we looked at NetApp, we looked at EMC, we would not have purchased any of those products as they could not appropriately satisfy our requirements," said Warren Roy, president and CEO of Global Relay. "BlueArc was selected because of the capability to replicate data, and the scalability to address our biggest concerns - performance, and the total data storage need for compliance archiving and electronic discovery."

"For the legal and electronic discovery markets, the ability to rapidly access, search and produce data at any time can save millions of dollars in fees or judicial decisions," said Steve Daheb, vice president of marketing and business development for BlueArc. "To ensure a technology infrastructure capable of handling the ultimate in demands, companies in the electronic discovery and compliance market, like Global Relay, are increasingly turning to BlueArc's Titan, where legacy architectures simply cannot meet requirements."

About BlueArc Corporation

BlueArc is the world leader in network storage innovation. BlueArc's Titan storage system family delivers unparalleled performance, scalability and simplicity, enabling customers to accelerate their digital world. Utilizing a unique patented architecture, Titan customers can achieve tasks impossible with alternative systems, implementing tomorrow's solutions today. The company's headquarters are in San Jose, California with European operations based in Bracknell, England. More information on BlueArc is available on the Internet at www.bluearc.com.

About Global Relay Communications

Founded in 1999, Global Relay is the leading provider of hosted enterprise-class message archiving and compliance solutions for the financial services industry. Built on a reputation of customer service, security and compliance excellence, Global Relay has delivered hosted email, IM and Bloomberg archiving for over 7 years without a single incident of data loss. Global Relay's innovative, easy-to-use, highly secure messaging systems address the requirements of regulatory compliance, audit and eDiscovery, while alleviating the burden of message management, filtering, security, business continuity and message storage. Global Relay operates via a strategic partnership network throughout the US, Canada and Europe. For more information, visit www.globalrelay.com.