Dot Hill Takes Remote Replication Mainstream, Delivers Complete Suite of Disaster Recovery Applications Standard with Latest AssuredSAN Storage Systems Lineup

Company broadens portfolio of solutions for expanded, award-winning channel program; AssuredSAN 3000 Series brings midrange-featured solutions to entry-level customers.

Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a provider of world-class storage solutions and software for OEMs, open storage partners and system integrators, today expanded its award-winning channel program with the introduction of its next-generation AssuredSAN(TM) disk-to-disk data protection appliances targeted at small-to-medium businesses (SMBs).

The Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series, based on the company's new 3000 Series storage platform announced in February, features a suite of disaster recovery applications, including Dot Hill's new AssuredRemote(TM) remote replication software. By including robust volume copy, snapshot and remote replication as standard in the AssuredSAN 3000 Series, Dot Hill makes affordable, comprehensive disaster recovery solutions available to the entry level space through its growing base of channel partners.

The latest addition to Dot Hill's powerful suite of advanced data management offerings, Dot Hill AssuredRemote is completely integrated into Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 storage appliances, providing easy-to-use, remote office data protection and eliminating the need for expensive, third party, host-based software. The combination of AssuredSnap(TM) snapshot, AssuredCopy(TM) volume copy, and AssuredRemote functionality, together in the AssuredSAN 3000 line, enables Dot Hill channel partners to deliver a complete disaster recovery offering for SMBs. This low maintenance, cost-effective approach to remote data protection, recovery, and migration, significantly reduces the burden of meeting modern data retention policies and compliance testing associated with government regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA acts.

With embedded-in-the-array remote replication of snapshot volumes, AssuredRemote offloads backup operations from critical application servers, thereby creating little to no impact to production servers by asynchronously copying and synchronizing data for up to 16 volumes simultaneously, directly between two AssuredSAN 3000R appliances via the local storage area network (SAN) or wide area networks (WANs). Replication can operate via the Fibre Channel ports and/or the iSCSI ports in the case of the dual protocol AssuredSAN 3900 models, and fully supports high-availability failover using dual controllers.