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OPEN STORAGE SOLUTIONS® CHOOSES XYRATEX 5000 SERIES OF RAID SOLUTIONS
Brampton, ON June 1, 2007 – Open Storage Solutions® Inc., a leader in providing data storage solutions in Canada and the US has just announced that it will integrate the 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 Xyratex’s 5000 series RAID family, form the backbone of these infrastructures. They can be packaged together 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. “Xyratex’s 5000 series RAID products does 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 high performing data protection solutions our customers have come to rely on us for.”
Xyratex’s RAID family enhances solutions provided by organizations like Open Storage Solutions. In addition to enterprise class product design and advanced functionality, the 5000 series RAID family features Storview, management software. Storview provides simplified system configuration and management lowering total cost of ownership and providing a seamless interface to all solutions within a network.
“Xyratex’s ongoing relationship with Open Storage Solutions serves as evidence that the 5000 series RAID family continues to exceed the storage requirements that are present across Open Storage Solutions’ customer base,” said Todd Gresham, executive vice president, Networked Storage Solutions. “We are confident that future product generations will build on this success and we look forward to enhancing this relationship and delivering additional industry leading systems in the months and years to come"
About Xyratex
Xyratex is a leading provider of enterprise data storage subsystems and storage process technology. The company designs and manufactures enabling technology that provides OEM and disk drive manufacturer customers with data storage products to support high-performance storage and data communication networks. Xyratex has over 20 years of experience in research and development relating to disk drives, storage systems and high-speed communication protocols.
About Open Storage Solutions
Open Storage Solutions, Inc has been designing and integrating advanced storage products for high performance computer applications for over 30 years. The company has a total commitment to providing the very best value solutions by utilizing leading edge technology and backing it with a high level of after sales service. Open Storage Solutions provides storage solutions from disk and tape systems, RAID systems as well as Enterprise Class servers, Network Attached Storage, Storage Area Networks and provides professional services.
Open Storage Solutions has offices throughout Canada and the USA.