Xyratex, Ltd.

Xyratex, Ltd. is incorporated in Bermuda. It is the parent company of the Xyratex Group.It directly wholly-owns all the significant subsidiaries in the group with the exception of Xyratex International Inc., which it owns indirectly. It is a provider of modular enterprise-class data storage solutions and storage process technology. It designs, develops and manufactures enabling technology that provides its customers with data storage products to support high-performance storage and data communication networks. It operates in two business segments: Networked Storage Solutions (NSS) and Storage Infrastructure (SI). The company's NSS products provide modular, highly scalable, high-speed, high-density, reliable, and flexible data storage. The company's hard disk drive (HDD) based storage subsystems support a range of high-speed communication technologies to demanding cost and performance specifications. The company's modular subsystem architecture allows it to support many segments within the networked storage market by enabling different specifications of storage subsystem designs to be created from a standard set of interlocking technology modules. The company's SI product portfolio includes process and test equipment utilized in disk drive head fabrication, disk drive substrate and media manufacturing and disk drive final assembly and test. The Company has research and development, manufacturing, sales and customer support operations at its major locations in the United States, Asia and Europe. In addition, it has research and development activities located in India and it provides local support to major customer locations in Asia. Its OneStorTM family of products, first announced in November 2007, complies with the latest industry standard SBB Version 2 specification and incorporates dynamic cooling, high efficiency power, and modularity, allowing it and its OEM customers to create a range of storage solutions with maximum re-use of design and components. Its application storage systems integrate EATX or SBB motherboards inside a storage enclosure integrated with the necessary device drivers, BIOS, and server and enclosure management software modules to fulfill many different storage application requirements. The Company designs and manufactures large and fully automated process test systems that incorporate mechanical and electronic hardware and firmware for controlling the HDD operating environment during final qualification and testing. It designs and manufactures complete servo track writers and their key subassemblies using a modular approach. Its range of precision media cleaning systems represents the latest in cleaning technology and performance for the HDD industry. These systems can be customized to various media process requirements by integrating specific IP blocks developed by Xyratex. Its Head and Media Test Systems can be used in all areas of the HDD industry from research to high volume component testing. Its auto