Dot Hill AssuredSAN Systems Certified with VMware vSphere

LONGMONT, Colo., Aug. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a leading provider of Unified Virtual Storage and SAN storage solutions, today announced that its AssuredSAN™ 3000 Series storage arrays have been certified for use with VMware® vSphere 5.0.

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By passing the extensive testing of the VMware hardware certification program, Dot Hill's proven, reliable, highly available AssuredSAN 3000 Series are ready for deployment in VMware vSphere 5.0 environments. VMware vSphere, one of the most trusted virtualization platforms for building cloud infrastructures, offers the highest levels of availability and responsiveness and enables users to run business-critical applications with confidence and respond faster to their business.

"The Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series is highly synergistic with VMware environments primarily because it delivers up to 99.999 percent availability," said Jim Jonez, senior director of marketing, Dot Hill. "Dot Hill's VMware-certified storage solutions leverage VMware's virtual file system and Storage vMotion technologies to perform non-disruptive storage migration, free up storage capacity and maximize IT investments."

Designed to assist IT-constrained, midsize organizations facing the demands of data storage and data protection requirements, Dot Hill's AssuredSAN storage solutions support businesses in meeting their IT needs by delivering breakthrough storage performance, efficiency, flexibility and scale. To date, Dot Hill has sold more than 500,000 storage systems worldwide.

Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series

Storing up to 288TB per SAN system, the Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series supports mixed SAS, SATA and SSD drive options, and includes high availability features -- dual redundant controllers, fans and power supplies – able to deliver 99.999 percent availability. The Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series of disk-to-disk data protection products combines the company's robust storage capability with enhanced data protection software features such as Dot Hill AssuredRemote™ data management software for remote replication, AssuredCopy™, Dot Hill's volume copy technology, and AssuredSnap™ snapshot capability to address many of today's disaster recovery, business continuity and regulatory compliance requirements.

AssuredSAN storage solutions incorporate a number of eco-friendly features 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 arrays feature Dot Hill's patented EcoStor™ "green" battery-free alternative for cache memory – a technique 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.

Dot Hill is showcasing the AssuredSAN 3000 Series at VMworld August 29-Sept. 1.

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.

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Statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Due to various risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such statements include those regarding: any improvement to Dot Hill's financial results or increase in product orders due to its products receiving vSphere 5.0 certification; the compatibility of Dot Hill products with VMware products, and; the performance or benefits of Dot Hill products in any particular environment. The risks that contribute to the uncertain nature of the forward-looking statements include, among other things: the current or continued popularity of VMware products; changing customer preferences; unforeseen technological, intellectual property, personnel or engineering issues; and the additional risks set forth in the Forms 10-K and 10-Q most recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission 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 events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.  VMware and Dot Hill are independent entities, and Dot Hill takes no responsibility for any statements made by VMware.

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SOURCE Dot Hill Systems Corp.