ADVISORY/BlueArc CTO to Present at Storage World Conference 2001 December 11, 2001.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Storage World Conference 2001

ADVISORY ... for Tuesday (Dec. 11)

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    WHAT: Dr. Geoff Barrall, executive vice president and chief
    technology officer at BlueArc, will participate in a panel titled
    "Storage on the Edge ... Companies to Watch" on Tuesday, December
    11 at 3:30 p.m. PT. Discover what's new from four hand-selected
    companies as they face off on key business and technology issues
    confronting IT organizations today. Dr. Barrall will discuss how
    BlueArc's SiliconServer(TM) technology is redefining the market
    for network-attached storage (NAS).

    Storage World Conference 2001 features prominent leaders from
    every major company from the various sectors of the storage world,
    and aims to keep companies on the brink of the paramount issues
    facing the industry.

    BlueArc Corporation delivers the world's highest-performance
    enterprise-class NAS system that simplifies the way enterprise
    customers design and build their storage infrastructures. BlueArc
    provides products with groundbreaking speed, scalability and low
    total cost-of-ownership as a result of its unique SiliconServer
    architecture. This revolutionary technology removes the
    bottlenecks that limit performance in other network storage
    systems on the market today. The company's headquarters are in San
    Jose, Calif. with UK operations based in Bracknell, England. More
    information on BlueArc is available on the Internet at
    www.bluearc.com.

    WHEN/WHERE: Storage World Conference 2001
                Fairmont Hotel
                San Jose, CA
                Tuesday, December 11, 2001
                Dr. Geoff Barrall, CTO, BlueArc
                Panel presentation at 3:30 p.m. PT
                "Storage on the Edge ... Companies to Watch"
                www.storageworld.com