Interview: Xyratex CEO Steve Barber on Raising the Bar for HPC Storage

In this video, Xyratex CEO Steve Barber discusses the company’s role in the HPC market as an OEM provider of high-speed storage systems based around the Lustre file system.

Nearly all of the significant data storage acquisitions over the last 3-4 years have a common theme – the company being acquired leveraged Xyratex for the platform while they focused on their application. Hence EqualLogic, XiV, Data Domain, 3PAR and Compellent, which all based their solutions on Xyratex platforms, all proved such attractive targets for acquisition.

Read the Full Story at the Xyratex blog: When Size and Scale Matter.

Xyratex will be joining OpenSFS and the rest of the Lustre community at the LUG 2012 meeting in Austin on April 23 – 25. Register now.



 

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