Open Storage Solutions Chooses Xyratex 5000 Series of RAID Solutions

Xyratex Ltd. (NASDAQ:XRTX), a leading provider of enterprise class data storage subsystems and storage process technology, today announced that Open Storage Solutions®, one of Canada’s leading providers of data storage solutions, will integrate Xyratex’s latest RAID technology into its line of Omega Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions. Open Storage Solutions has an unrivaled reputation for designing personalized enterprise class SAN and NAS infrastructures into markets such as healthcare, government, education, film production and manufacturing. The Omega range of storage solutions, based on the Xyratex 5000 series RAID family, forms the backbone of these infrastructures, which can be packaged with other Open Storage Solutions including backup, server and SAN/NAS technologies and delivered as fully optimized systems. "Open Storage Solutions has enjoyed a long relationship with Xyratex. Our thirty years in the data storage industry has shown us that dazzling specifications must be backed by flexibility, expandability, performance and reliability,” said Andrew Betterton, president and CEO, Open Storage Solutions. "The Xyratex 5000 series RAID products do exactly that, and they fit our solution set perfectly. The flexibility of the Omega 5402 and the capacity-optimized Omega 5404 enable us to deliver the high performing data protection solutions our customers have come to rely on.” Xyratex’s RAID family enhances solutions provided by organizations like Open Storage Solutions. In addition to enterprise class product design and advanced functionality, the 5000 series RAID family features StorView management software. StorView provides simplified system configuration and management, lowering total cost of ownership and providing a seamless interface to all solutions within a network. "Xyratex’s ongoing relationship with Open Storage Solutions serves as evidence that the 5000 series RAID family continues to exceed the storage requirements that are present across Open Storage Solutions’ customer base,” said Todd Gresham, executive vice president, Networked Storage Solutions, Xyratex. "We are confident that future product generations will build on this success and we look forward to enhancing this relationship and delivering additional industry-leading systems in the months and years to come." About Xyratex Xyratex is a leading provider of enterprise class data storage subsystems and storage process technology. The company designs and manufactures enabling technology that provides OEM and disk drive manufacturers with data storage products to support high-performance storage and data communication networks. Xyratex has over 20 years of experience in research and development relating to disk drives, storage systems and high-speed communication protocols. Founded in 1994 in a management buy-out from IBM, and with headquarters in the UK, Xyratex has an established global base with R&D and operational facilities in Europe, the United States and South East Asia. For more information, visit Xyratex’s Web site at www.xyratex.com.