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Peter Bojanic

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Deep Experience and Understanding in Storage Market

!  Largest OEM Disk Storage System provider* in the world

!  19% of worldwide external storage capacity shipped in 2010

!  > 3,000 Petabytes of storage shipped in 2010

!  ~ 50% of w/w disk drives are produced utilizing Xyratex SI Technology (Company estimates)

! Over 25 years of storage & networking R&D experience

! Over 2,000 employees worldwide

! Tenfold revenue growth since 2000

*Source: IDC, December 2010; Coughlin Associates, 2010

2010 Revenue ($1,603M)

NASDAQ: XRTX

Open Lustre Experience and Ongoing Investment

•  File system expertise combined with rich history of storage system experience –  Completed acquisition of ClusterStor in July 2010 –  Investment adds capabilities and support for the Open Lustre File System –  Continuing to recruit top file system talent

•  Xyratex provides Lustre Support today with a commitment to Quality & Testing

•  Capabilities will be leveraged to assist our OEM partners as they address the growing HPC market & Large Data solutions

•  Committed to working with Lustre Open Source Community to expand

architectural capabilities and develop Lustre •  Stay tuned for major new product announcements of Lustre based HPC storage

systems –  Please speak with us about your upcoming storage procurements

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