Dot Hill Awarded 2010 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide Five-Star Partner Rating
Dot Hill Authorized Partner Program Recognized for Excellence by Leading Channel Authority
LONGMONT, Colo., March 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a provider of world-class storage solutions and software for OEMs, open storage partners and system integrators, today announced it has been recognized by Everything Channel as one of North America's top information technology (IT) vendors for its Authorized Partner Program. Additionally, the Dot Hill Authorized Partner Program was recognized with a Five-Star rating, representative of an exceptional channel support program.
The Dot Hill Authorized Partner Program was awarded a Five-Star recognition in the Midsize category in Everything Channel's 16th annual 2010 Partner Program Guide (PPG), acknowledging its commitment and strength of its programs for storage reseller partners, which include IT integrators, technology solution providers and consultants. The Five-Star Partner Program rating recognizes the elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors that give solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs. The Five-Star rating is bestowed on programs whose overall rating is among the elite based on company size.
The Dot Hill Authorized Partner Program, which offers Authorized, Silver and Gold membership tiers based on revenues and certification, provides qualified VARs and solution providers with access to dedicated Dot Hill channel specialists who are committed to helping storage channel partners grow their business, as well as a secure and dedicated partner portal for access to Dot Hill channel program tools. The Dot Hill AssuredSAN™ family of disk-to-disk data protection products, designed specifically for channel partners, combines Dot Hill's robust storage capability with enhanced data protection software features that address many of today's disaster recovery, business continuance and regulatory compliance needs. AssuredSAN solutions are available with the company's suite of disaster recovery applications, creating self contained backup and recovery appliances for today's mission-critical applications that are fully independent of application or server operating system environments.
Research for the 2010 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and the Five-Star Partner Program rating was conducted by Everything Channel's research department. Everything Channel analyzed 130 vendor programs rating vendors' responses to in-depth questions about their partner programs in the five elements of sales support, partner profitability, partner ecosystem development/management, partner communication/marketing, and demand generation. To ensure fair comparisons, companies were placed in one of four categories based on company size (Enterprise, Midsize, Small and Emerging). Questions from each section were scored individually and weighted appropriately.
"We are pleased to deliver to the Channel an exclusive list of the leading vendor channel programs with details about key technologies, program opportunities, and information on the hottest new program offerings," said Kelley Damore, vice president, editorial director, Everything Channel. "The quality of a technology vendor's partner program determines how profitable its partners will be. For their commitment to their business partners and their efforts to build quality programs, we congratulate those recognized as this year's Five-Star Partner Program winners for helping to drive greater revenue in the channel."
"We have placed a major emphasis the past year on the development of our AssuredSAN™ brand of storage solutions and the Dot Hill Authorized Partner Program," said David Zimmer, vice president of worldwide channel sales and marketing, Dot Hill Systems. "It is gratifying to see Everything Channel and CRN, such strong voices in the reseller community, validate our efforts."
The PPG list and those companies recognized as Five-Star appear in the March 29 issue of CRN magazine and online at www.Channelweb.com.
About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)
Everything Channel, headquartered in Framingham, MA, is a technology marketing and sales solutions company. Through its "Complete Technology Channel Solution," Everything Channel offers the right business tools to accelerate technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to the sellers of technology to achieve measurable and significant results.
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About Dot Hill
Delivering innovative technology and global support, Dot Hill empowers OEMs and resellers to bring unique storage solutions to market, quickly, easily and cost-effectively. Offering high performance and industry-leading uptime, Dot Hill's RAID technology is the foundation for best-in-class storage solutions offering enterprise-class security, availability and data protection. The company's products are in use today by the world's leading service and equipment providers, common carriers, advanced technology and telecommunications companies as well as government agencies. Dot Hill solutions are certified to meet rigorous industry standards and military specifications, as well as RoHS and WEEE international environmental standards. Headquartered in Longmont, Colo., Dot Hill has offices and/or representatives in China, Germany, Israel, Japan, United Kingdom and the United States.
For more information, visit us at www.dothill.com.
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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: the size and timing of orders for Dot Hill through the channel or due to Dot Hill's Authorized Partner Program; any improvement in Dot Hill's financial results due to the Partner Program; and the effectiveness of the Partner Program. The risks that contribute to the uncertain nature of the forward-looking statements include: that the Authorized Partner Program is relatively new and Dot Hill has limited experience with the program; 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.
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SOURCE Dot Hill Systems Corp.
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