Ken Claffey

Xyratex Ltd. provides enterprise class data storage subsystems and hard disk drive capital equipment. The company operates in two business segments: Enterprise Data Storage Solutions and Hard Disk Drive Capital Equipment. The Enterprise Data Storage Solutions segment products are primarily hard disk drive based storage enclosures and solutions, which it provides to original equipment manufacturers. The Hard Disk Drive Capital Equipment segment products consist of disk drive manufacturing process equipment, which it sells directly to manufacturers of disk drives and their component suppliers. Xyratex was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Havant, The United Kingdom.

Panasas, Inc. develops storage solutions for technical applications and data workloads. The firm serves the bioscience, energy, finance, government, manufacturing, media, and university markets. The company was founded by Garth Gibson, Frederic Roy Carlson and William Courtright in 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.