Xyratex is delighted to announce that the ClusterStor team is now part of the Xyratex business group. This strategic acquisition assists Xyratex with the clear goal of supporting the Lustre open source community to continue the development of Lustre and to also enable OEM partners to leverage Lustre in their development of next generation High Performance Computing technologies.

Lustre
Xyratex / ClusterStor offers support and development services for Lustre. The Lustre support team combines the agility of a dedicated development group with unmatched leadership, architectural and implementation skills.

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About ClusterStor
ClusterStor was founded by Peter Braam in 2009 and has a very experienced team of architects and developers with a sequence of success stories behind them. Xyratex acquired the assets of ClusterStor in 2010 and has been continuing to add world class development talent in order to further enhance the capabilities of Lustre and support the Lustre community.

Background
Peter Braam, working closely with the United States Department of Energy’s Lustre community, invented the Lustre file system in the early 2000’s at his original company, Cluster File Systems (CFS), which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2007. Most recently Peter was the CEO of ClusterStor, a startup he formed to further develop and support file system technology.