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Dot Hill Axis Advanced Delivers SAN-to-NAS Solution

Dot Hill Systems Corp, a leading provider of storage networking solutions, announced the addition of Axis Advanced to its Axis family of multi-function storage managers. The Axis Advanced model features dual Fibre Channel (FC) storage area network (SAN) ports, a Gigabit Ethernet network attached storage (NAS) port and an Ultra 160 SCSI direct attached storage (DAS) port, resulting in any-to-any connectivity between storage and networks. The Axis Storage Manager family provides storage routing, extensive virtualization, flexible networking, and centralized management as standard features and advanced options including disaster recovery and remote replication.

"The Axis Advanced extends the capabilities offered by the Axis Basic model to Fibre Channel and makes the convergence of SAN and NAS a reality. This new storage manager consolidates Fibre Channel and SCSI direct attached storage and SANs and allows them to appear as NAS volumes," said Dana Kammersgard, Dot Hill's chief technology officer. "The Axis Advanced offers a cost-effective solution to businesses that want to add the file-sharing capabilities of NAS to their existing SAN."

Implementing Axis Advanced results in any-to-any connectivity between storage and networks. Administrators choose how to present the storage to servers -- as SAN volumes, NAS volumes, or a combination of both. Axis Advanced makes an ideal platform for introducing point-in-time copy, serverless backup and NAS volumes to FC environments. The list price of the standard Axis Advanced model is $24,995.

The Axis Storage Manager extends an organizationıs original IT investment rather than replaces it. Administrators can manage and consolidate all their data, regardless of where itıs stored or whose storage is used. Organizations can dramatically increase the access, availability, and reliability of their information while substantially boosting sharing, protection, security, management, backup, and recovery capabilities.

Dot Hill is a leading independent provider of carrier-class data storage solutions and services. With SANnet solutions that include storage area networks, MIL-STD-810F and NEBS Level 3 certified systems for government, military, Telco and Internet operations, and world-class service capabilities, Dot Hill is uniquely positioned to address the storage requirements of mission-critical continuous computing environments. The Axis Storage Manager family of products enables companies to enhance their existing IT infrastructures without replacing them regardless of what storage is used. Axis also provides mirroring, remote replication and disaster recovery options for mission-critical applications. Dot Hill's customers include many of the worldıs leading Internet service providers, common carriers, service and equipment providers, advanced technology and telecommunications companies, and government agencies. Dot Hill is an ISO 9002 certified company, and its Web site is www.dothill.com.

Contact Joe Austin, JPR Communications, 818-386-0403, joea@jprcom.com.