NetStor Technology Group Signed as Manufacturer's Representative to Deliver Dot Hill's Innovative RAID Products to Customers throughout Canada
CARLSBAD, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dot Hill Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:HILL), a market leader in providing flexible storage offerings and responsive service and support to OEMs and system integrators (SIs), today announced it has signed an agreement with Markham, Ontario-based NetStor Technology Group, Inc. to represent Dot Hill storage solutions to the Canadian marketplace.
Under the terms of the agreement, NetStor Technology Group will market the Dot Hill line of RAID storage solutions, based on the R/Evolution(TM) (Rapid Evolution) architecture, to OEMs, resellers and end-users throughout Canada. Enabling customers to rapidly customize storage solutions through a configure- to-product model, Dot Hill's family of R/Evolution products includes the 2730 Fibre Channel offering, the 2330 iSCSI RAID array, the 2530 SAS RAID array, and Dot Hill's 5730 midrange Fibre Channel solution.
Representing a broad range of solutions in disk, tape automation, networking and storage management software, NetStor Technology Group drives incremental Canadian business through sales, marketing, and support logistics for data storage and networking vendors through its authorized channel partners.
"For technology vendors that choose to pursue this market, Canada represents a tremendous opportunity," said Steven Cheung, managing director for NetStor Technology Group. "NetStor is already seeing interest and acceptance of Dot Hill's unique, modular R/Evolution Architecture in the Canadian telecommunications and government sectors," said Cheung. "Our goal as a company is to achieve a 50 percent growth rate over the next few years, and we see our partnership with Dot Hill as key to attaining this goal." "Given the high level of acceptance we have had from OEMs in the United States and Europe, it was a logical next step to introduce our portfolio of storage offerings into Canada," said Dana Kammersgard, president and chief executive officer, Dot Hill. "With more than 25 years of experience in the Canadian marketplace, NetStor Technology Group offers Canadian customers turnkey storage networking solutions from best-of-breed storage offerings. We're very enthusiastic about entering the Canadian market through our partnership with NetStor Technology Group." 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, Japan, United Kingdom and the United States. For more information, visit us at http://www.dothill.com/.
About NetStor Technology Group NetStor Technology Group Inc. (NTG) is a total service data storage and networking manufacturer's representative in the information technology industry. NTG's services include sales-cycle management, marketing programs execution, and support logistics reporting. NTG is headquartered in Markham, Ontario, and provides coverage to all areas of Canada. NTG provides sales and services to all levels of government through our reseller partners.
NetStor Technology Group Inc. represents leading storage manufacturers and partners with consultants, SIs, VARs and resellers to engineer data storage solutions and services for the Canadian corporate marketplace. These dynamic relationships enable our partners to provide complete and comprehensive solutions in the networking storage and SAN environments.
NTG markets directly, but does not sell directly to end-users. All fulfillments are pushed through partners. NetStor is a member of SNIA Canada. For more information, go to http://www.netstortech.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 statements regarding Dot Hill's continued relationship with NetStor Technology Group Inc., the level of acceptance of Dot Hill products by the Canadian market, the actual future growth rate of NetStor or Dot Hill, and the success of the relationship between the companies. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The risks that contribute to the uncertain nature of the forward-looking statements include: the fact that under the Agreement, NetStor Technology Group Inc. has the right to cancel orders, revise its product forecasts, or terminate the agreement; the fact that under the Agreement, NetStor Technology Group Inc. is not required to purchase any specific amount of product, and NetStor Technology Group Inc. has the right to determine the amount of product it purchases; changing customer preferences in the Open Systems computing market; and other 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 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: Erin Lutz of Lutz PR, +1-949-293-1055, , for Dot Hill Systems Corp.
Web site: http://www.dothill.com/
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