GERMERING, Germany and STUTTGART, Germany, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dot Hill Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:HILL), a market leader in providing high- performance, flexible storage offerings and responsive service and support to OEMs and system integrators, today announced it has entered into an original equipment manufacturer agreement with Stuttgart based Stordis GmbH. Under the terms of the agreement, Stordis will integrate Dot Hill's high-performance modular storage systems of the 2000 and 5000 series into the product family of Stordis' Snapstor storage arrays. Stordis will market these arrays through distributors, storage resellers and system integrators throughout Europe.
Stordis is a new German value-adding distributor focused on storage and networking solutions. The company delivers these solutions on a European-wide basis. Stordis distributes Dot Hill's disk arrays for SAS and SATA II disks. Each 2000 series RAID chassis supports the loading of up to 12 disks. With the addition of a JBOD or disk enclosure, the total disk capacity can be increased to 56 disks. The 5000 series extends this capacity to a maximum of 108 disks with a total capacity of up to 108 TB per system. The 5000 series will support NEBS-Level 3 and MIL-STD-810F certification, making it ideal for telecommunications and military use. Stordis' Snapstor product family offers high performance, high availability and various software features with these platforms.
The OEM partnership between Stordis and Dot Hill is the latest in a series of OEM relationships announced by Dot Hill. The company's unique business model has enabled Dot Hill's OEM partners to provide their customers with competitive products while lowering development costs and accelerating time to market.
"Stordis selected Dot Hill because of its predominant technology and its excellent reputation in the industry," said Alexander Jeffries, Managing Director of Stordis GmbH. "The partnership with Dot Hill enables us to offer our customers a reasonable high-performance and high quality solution for a vast number of different applications." "Stordis' comprehensive experience in supporting resellers and system integrators in developing high-performance storage solutions helped us select Stordis as an OEM partner," said Stefan Kollar, Managing Director EMEA of Dot Hill. "We are confident that Stordis will play a key part in our expansion into the European storage market." About STORDIS: STORDIS, located in Stuttgart, Germany and operating throughout Europe prides itself as being a truly independent value-adding distributor offering its European customer base profound knowledge in the products it distributes, ranging from consulting, pre-sales, installation to post-sales support. Focusing on both storage and networking solutions, STORDIS brings the two merging markets together, and offers a high level of competency within both market segments, making STORDIS the ideal single point of contact for storage and networking needs. Further information is available at http://www.stordis.com/.
About Dot Hill Delivering innovative technology and global support, Dot Hill empowers the OEM community 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 Carlsbad, Calif., Dot Hill has offices and/or representatives in China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States. For more information, visit us at http://www.dothill.com/ 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 such forward-looking statements. Such statements include any implications regarding: Stordis' future success in selling Dot Hill products or otherwise; the amount of revenue or profit to be generated by Dot Hill under the OEM agreement, and; any positive impact on Dot Hill's financial results due to its relationship with Stordis. The risks that contribute to the uncertain nature of the forward-looking statements include the fact that the OEM Agreement can be terminated under various circumstances, the fact that the agreement does not contain any minimum purchase requirements, and unforeseen technological, intellectual property, logistical or operations 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 Dot Hill'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 events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made. DATASOURCE: Dot Hill Systems Corp.
CONTACT: Stefan Kollar, Managing Director EMEA of Dot Hill, +49(0)89-89 40 98 70, ; or Arno Lucht of STRATEGIC, +49(0)89-2424 1693, ; or Alexander Jeffries, Managing Director of STORDIS GmbH, +49(0)711 34 21 58-10, , both for Dot Hill Systems Corp.
Web site: http://www.dothill.com/
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