Xyratex Company Description
Xyratex designs and manufactures storage subsystems and controllers, as well as PCI cards that analyze and manage network data. The company sells its storage systems primarily to computer hardware vendors such as NetApp that sell the products under their own brands. It also develops products for disk drive manufacturers such as Seagate and Western Digital. The company's disk drive products include production test systems, servo writers, and disk automation systems. Previously a manufacturing unit of IBM, Xyratex was formed from a management buyout in 1994.
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