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The Industry's Most Flexible Approach to Scaling Capacity
Titan is designed to meet any enterprise storage requirements, supporting massive 5Gbps performance at the entry level, with the ability to scale to 20Gbps of data throughput with a simple modular upgrade. As data and user populations grow, or as workstation and application server performance accelerates, Titan will adapt to meet these increased demands. Customers can add storage at any time to meet new application or business needs and consolidate a company's disparate storage into a single point of management, without incurring downtime. Titan's Silicon File System supports Virtual Volumes up to 256TB - logical containers that manage data capacity and can dynamically expand and contract to meet changing allocation requirements.

Business Continuance
Titan is designed for the heart of the enterprise, with no single point of failure. All aspects of the system's modular architecture deliver maximum availability during upgrades or maintenance. Additionally, BlueArc's Accelerated Data Copy (ADC) technology provides hardware-accelerated local and remote replication; together with fast restore options, providing instant data availability even during times of crisis. Should performance requirements grow beyond a single Titan system, the system's native clustering capability supports multiple Titans connected into a single file system. The data managed by each Titan is available to each clustered system, allowing for seamless fail-over and continued data access regardless of an enterprise's maintenance or disaster recovery requirements.

Maximize Storage Utilization
BlueArc's Multi-Tiered Storage allows enterprises to match appropriate storage media to differing application requirements, achieving the optimal levels of performance, capacity and cost without being required to manage and maintain multiple storage systems. Combined with the accelerated productivity achieved from server's underlying SiliconServer Architecture, Titan delivers a fast return on investment.

Unprecedented Investment Protection
In today's environments, as new server and networking technology is deployed within the enterprise, storage systems must be upgraded to meet the needs of the IT infrastructure. The vast majority of storage system upgrades require an entirely new product installation - a "fork lift" upgrade. Titan eliminates these painful hardware replacement costs, delivering a modular, enterprise storage server with maximum flexibility to upgrade server modules without replacing the entire storage system, offering the greatest return on investment in storage.

Titan Modules

Network Interface Module (NIM)
Titan's NIM module provides the networking and management interfaces and carries out TCP, UDP and IP processing, in hardware. This module has four media-configurable Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, each configurable to support IEEE802.3ad link aggregation. All four of the ports accept and transmit both standard and jumbo Ethernet frames. The NIM Module also supports four dedicated 10/100Mbps Ethernet interfaces and 2 RS-232 serial interfaces for management. Management is functionally separated from the prime data paths.

File System Modules (FSA and FSB)
Titan's Silicon File System modules combine to carry out protocol processing (including CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and NDMP) and all aspects of file system operations in hardware. The hardware execution of file system operations is key to delivering the throughput and low latency offered by Titan. Due to this hardware acceleration, directory searches and file lookups are far more efficient and less time consuming than traditional network storage systems, allowing data to be returned to the client quicker, and increasing productivity. The FSA module also implements battery-backed and mirrored NVRAM ensuring no data will be lost in the event of power failure. The FSB module is responsible for managing the unique SiliconStack at the heart of Titan's Silicon File System.

Storage Interface Module (SIM)
Titan's SIM module is responsible for disk and storage management as well as the high-speed cluster interconnection to other Titan systems. The SIM also supports a very large data cache, which provides very rapid access to commonly used data. As is the case throughout Titan's design, all data movement and management is carried out in dedicated hardware specifically designed for the task.

Titan Software Specifications: Protocols Supported CIFS NFS v2 and v3 NDMP v2, v3 and v4 File Transfer Protocol iSCSI Licensed Protocols CIFS NFS iSCSI Server Clustering Management Protocols HTTP, SSL, SSH, SNMP v1 and v2c, NIS, DNS, WINS, NTP, E-mail Alerts Supported Features: Standard Supported Features Snapshots Quotas - volume, group, user, Virtual Volumes Virtual Volumes Accelerated Data Copy (ADC) File System Attributes: File System Silicon File System (SiliconFS) Hardware-based file system Multi-Protocol Support Simultaneous CIFS, NFS and iSCSI Maximum Volume Size 256 TB Maximum Storage Supported 256 TB RAID Levels Supported RAID 1, 5, 10 RAID Striping Parallel RAID Striping supported NDMP Backup Attributes: NDMP Support NDMP v2, v3 and v4 Tape Library System (TLS) Support for Ethernet-attached TLS, FC-attached TLS NDMP Features Direct Access Recovery (DAR) 3-Way Backup and Restore Disk Storage Sub-System Attributes: Storage Sub-system Hard Disks Supported Multi-Tiered Storage (MTS) Support Mixed Fibre Channel and ATA disks Enclosures Supported FC-14H: RAID Enclosure FC-14C: RAID Enclosure, 14 FC drives FC-14E: Expansion Enclosure, 14 FC drives SA-14H: RAID Enclosure SA-14C: RAID Enclosure, 14 SATA drives SA-14E: Expansion Enclosure, 14 SATA drives RAID Controllers FC-14H: Hardware based FC interface FC-14C: Hardware based FC interface SA-14H: Hardware based FC interface SA-14C: Hardware based FC interface RAID Controller Interface FC-14H: 2 Gbps, SFP connectors FC-14C: 2 Gbps, SFP connectors SA-14H: 2 Gbps, SFP connectors SA-14C: 2 Gbps, SFP connectors Disk Storage Sub-System Attributes continue on the right

Disk Storage Subsystem Attributes (Continued): Disk Drives Supported: Tier 1: 15,000 RPM, 36GB, 73GB FC Drives Tier 2: 10,000 RPM, 36GB, 73GB, 146GB FC Tier 3: 7,200 RPM, 250GB SATA Max Drives per RAID Controller FC-14H: 224 disks per RAID FC-14C: 112 disks per RAID SA-14H: 224 disks per RAID SA-14C: 112 disks per RAID System Management Attributes: Integrated Storage System Management Titan SiliconServer(s) RAID controller management Disk sub-system management Enclosures and disks Fibre Channel Switch management Standard Management Features: Multi-server management Accelerated Data Copy Automated system configuration and backup Enhanced system monitoring Anti-virus support Private, side-band Ethernet management network Management Interfaces GUI-based: HTTP, HTTPS CLI-based: Telnet, Serial Scripting: (SiCtrl) Secure Management SSL SSH Management Access Control User/Password Authentication Management port definition Management access method Access Control Lists (ACLs) SNMP Support SNMP v1 SNMP v2c SNMP Traps NDMP Backup Attributes: NDMP Support NDMP v2 and v3 Tape Library Support Fibre Channel attached Ethernet attached NDMP Features Supported Direct Access Recovery (DAR) 3-Way Backup and Recovery Advanced System Management Attributes: Advanced Management Features Anti-virus support OpenSSH management Accelerated Data Copy Advanced management interface Automated system configuration backup Incremental data replication AC Power Options 208V 110V/220V AC Anti-Virus Support SAVSE 4.3

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