Storage News

Networked storage supplier Xyratex will be hosting a conference call to discuss their second quarter results on the 30rd of June. If you’re interested, check out the full press release for details:

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Xyratex reported today that it expects revenue for its fiscal 2009 third quarter ended August 31, 2009 to be approximately $247 million. Their CEO is pretty pleased with this figure:

“The third quarter benefitted from better than expected sales across our product and customer portfolio, indicating improvements in the overall economy and the relative strength of the storage industry” said Steve Barber, CEO of Xyratex. “Additionally, I was pleased with our execution in reducing costs while at the same time meeting the demand requirements of our customers.” Continue reading Xyratex announces preliminary revenue for Q3 2009

Where Winchester Systems was the first company I noticed that included 2 TB SATA drives in their storage systems, Xyratex announced today that they are offering Hitachi’s 7.200 rpm 2 TB drives. These should offer about the same performance as the 1 TB drives most vendors are offering, while providing twice the density. Continue reading Xyratex the first to use Hitachi’s new 7200rpm 2TB drive