Open Storage Picks Xyratex 5000

HAVANT, U.K. -- Xyratex Ltd. (NASDAQ:XRTX - News), 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."

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