HAVANT, England, March 15,
2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Xyratex Ltd (Nasdaq: XRTX), a
leading provider of data storage technology, today announced that
it is opening two new facilities in North
America.
- A new center of excellence for storage software development,
based in the Kitchener-Waterloo
region of Ontario, Canada, will be
primarily focused on clustered file system, cloud infrastructure
and management software development.
- A new disk drive integration and system configuration facility
in Guadalajara, Mexico to provide
its Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partners with disk drive
integration and system configuration capabilities adjacent to their
America's distribution facilities.
The Kitchener-Waterloo software
development center will be responsible for building next generation
clustered file system capabilities and an advanced application
framework with intuitive management tools for Lustre® based
ClusterStor™ High Performance Computing storage solutions.
The facility will open in May of this year and will support
the expansion of the Xyratex software development organization over
the next few years.
"The Kitchener-Waterloo region
has a long track record for attracting some of the brightest
software talent in the industry and cultivating great developers.
We're delighted to join this world-class community of IT
organizations in Canada," said
Peter Bojanic, Software Development
Director, Xyratex. "We have a number of Linux/Lustre developers and
application architects already on our team and we're looking to
expand the team with several more talented developers to work on
clustered file systems, cloud infrastructure and management
frameworks. We feel that K-W is the ideal location to recruit these
types of developers and to promote storage software research and
development with the local universities."
The Guadalajara disk drive
integration and system configuration facility will open in May and
is located close to the integration and distribution facilities of
major OEM partners to enable 'just in time' manufacturing
integration of the Xyratex OneStor™ data storage platform with the
OEMs solutions. This facility complements Xyratex's current global
integration and fulfillment facilities located in the United Kingdom, California and Malaysia.
About Xyratex
Xyratex is a leading provider of enterprise class data
storage solutions and hard disk drive capital equipment. The
Networked Storage Solutions division designs and manufactures a
range of advanced, scalable data storage solutions for the Original
Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) community. As the largest capital
equipment supplier to the industry, the Storage Infrastructure
division enables disk drive manufacturers and their component
suppliers to meet today's technology and productivity requirements.
Xyratex has over 25 years of experience in research and development
relating to disk drives, storage systems and manufacturing process
technology.
Founded in 1994 in an MBO 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.
Lustre is a registered trademark of Oracle. Oracle and Java
are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other
names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
SOURCE Xyratex Ltd