Autodesk Selects Dot Hill Storage for High-end Post-Production Solutions

LONGMONT, Colo., Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a leading provider of Unified Virtual Storage and SAN storage solutions, today announced it has entered into a supply agreement with Autodesk, Inc., a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software.

Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk continues to develop a broad portfolio of software for global markets. The company's customers in the media and entertainment industries – including the last 16 Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects – use Autodesk software to design, visualize and simulate their ideas. Solutions include Autodesk Flame and Autodesk Flame Premium software for 3D visual effects, relighting, grading and finishing for film and television.

Under the terms of the agreement, Autodesk will integrate Dot Hill's AssuredSAN 3000 Series 8Gb Fibre Channel storage offering as part of Autodesk's turnkey solution for 3D visual effects and finishing. Dot Hill storage can be configured as either direct attach storage and as a Storage Area Network (SAN) as needed.

Featuring a compact 2U24 footprint, 8Gb Fibre Channel connectivity and "five nines" (99.999%) of availability, Dot Hill 3000 storage systems deliver high performance for sequential workloads required in deadline-driven, mission critical effects and finishing work.

Dot Hill offers a storage solution specifically designed to support clients using Quantum StorNext file systems. The Dot Hill solution offers customers a powerful combination of Dot Hill AssuredSAN storage controllers, solid state (SSD) and conventional hard disk drives, creating a high-performance storage tier based on SSD drives for fast I/O and throughput needed for the StorNext metadata volume, along with a second tier based on rotating drives for high capacity data storage.

"Autodesk's selection of Dot Hill storage to support high performance storage requirements is further validation of Dot Hill's momentum in the media and entertainment space with our AssuredSAN 3000 Series," said Garrett Wein, vice president, world-wide OEM sales, Dot Hill Systems Corp. The Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series continues to be the first choice of clients in search of a superior solution for visual effects, grading and finishing in both 2D monoscopic and 3D stereoscopic projects."

The Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series

Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series arrays offer support for 8Gb Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), 10Gb iSCSI, as well as other "state of the art" interface options. In addition, Dot Hill continues to add midrange capability and value to its 3000 Series with options such as AssuredRemote data management software for remote replication. Advanced data management such as AssuredCopy™, Dot Hill's volume copy technology, enabling the creation of independent data volume copies for additional data protection, and Dot Hill's AssuredSnap™ snapshot capability for improved data availability and business continuity, allow companies to reduce the burden of meeting modern data retention policies. The AssuredSAN 3000 systems can scale to a total of 288 terabytes of storage with inexpensive JBOD expansion units.

The AssuredSAN 3000 Series features a number of eco-friendly enhancements such as drive spin-down capability and 595-watt 80 PLUS-rated (greater than 80 percent energy efficiency) power supplies for reduced operating costs. Additionally, the AssuredSAN 3000 Series also features Dot Hill's patented EcoStor™ "green" battery-free alternative for cache memory, which leverages a combination of super capacitors and flash memory that outlasts traditional batteries nearly fivefold. Business benefits include lower maintenance and disposal costs and reduced server and application down time due to scheduled battery replacement and maintenance.

About Dot Hill
Leveraging its proprietary Assured family of storage solutions, Dot Hill solves many of today's most challenging storage problems – helping IT to improve performance, increase availability, simplify operations, and reduce costs. Dot Hill's solutions combine breakthrough virtualization software with the industry's most flexible and extensive hardware platform and automated management to deliver best-in-class unified virtual storage and SAN solutions. Headquartered in Longmont, Colo., Dot Hill has offices and/or representatives in China, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

For more information, visit us at www.dothill.com.

About Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc., is a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. Customers across the manufacturing, architecture, building, construction, and media and entertainment industries 3/4 including the last 16 Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects 3/4 use Autodesk software to design, visualize and simulate their ideas. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk continues to develop the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art software for global markets.

For additional information about Autodesk, visit www.autodesk.com.

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Autodesk, AutoCAD and Flame are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. Academy Award is a registered trademark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.

Certain statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical fact are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by the statements. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding: any improvement in Dot Hill's financial results due to its OEM relationship with Autodesk; the length of that relationship; and the benefits or performance of any Dot Hill product in any particular environment. The risks that contribute to the uncertain nature of the forward-looking statements include: that the relationship between Dot Hill and Autodesk does not provide for any mandatory minimum purchase amounts and may be terminated at any time, for any reason; changing customer and partner preferences in the open systems computing market; and unforeseen supply, technological, intellectual property or engineering issues. However, there are many other risks not listed here that may affect the future business of Dot Hill, as well as the forward-looking statements contained herein. To learn about such risks and uncertainties, you should read the risk factors set forth in the company's public filings with the SEC, including the Forms 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q most recently filed by Dot Hill. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Dot Hill undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect any change in circumstances or events.

Contact:
Steve Sturgeon
Lutz PR
858-472-5669
[email protected]

Company Contact:
Ruth Macdonald
Marketing Communications Manager
303-845-3364
[email protected]

SOURCE Dot Hill Systems Corp.

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