History (1996): Xyratex Buys Zadian

Xyratex (Havant, UK) is continuing its strategy of investing in the storage test system market.

After purchasing Peer Protocols last year. the company acquired Zadian Technologies (San Jose, CA), a developer and manufacturer of test systems for devices using ATAPI. IDE and SCSI interfaces.

Zadian also has sales and service offices in Singapore.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue 100, published on May 1996.

Note: Seagate acquired Xyratex for $374 million in 2013.