Xyratex posts Q3 results

… and they’re pretty close to the preliminary figures they announced earlier. Their GAAP net income came to $7.8 million, the same as Q3 last year, despite a slightly lower gross profit margin. Revenue was lower than last year, $246.3 million compared to slightly over $280 million in 2008. The full figures are available on [...]

Xyratex announces preliminary revenue for Q3 2009

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 [...]

Xyratex the first to use Hitachi’s new 7200rpm 2TB drive

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.