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DOT HILL ANNOUNCES NEW BUSINESS CONTINUANCE SOLUTIONS

Dot Hill has announced the addition of two new models to its Axis Storage Manager family. The new solutions, Axis DR and Axis SAN, are designed to address specific business needs including disaster recovery and SAN/NAS convergence. The Axis Storage Manager family provides storage routing, extensive virtualization, flexible networking, and centralized management as standard features. The new Axis solutions will be demonstrated in Dot Hill¹s booth 715 at the upcoming Networld+Interop exhibition in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center, September 10-12.

"Having a well-conceived disaster recovery plan in place is the key to business continuance," said Mike Karp, senior analyst with Enterprise Management Associates. "Some companies have, unfortunately, learned this the hard way. With affordable disaster recovery technology available now, there is no reason for a company to expose itself to the risk of interrupting its business process due to lost data."

"The new Axis Storage Manager models are designed to help ensure business continuance in organizations of all sizes. The Axis DR gives businesses the opportunity to cost-effectively deploy a disaster recovery solution," said Dana Kammersgard, Dot Hill¹s chief technology officer. "The Axis SAN provides customers with the ability to more effectively use existing direct attached storage and storage area networks while taking advantage of their IP networks for storage."

Optimized for storage area networking, Axis SAN delivers multi-vendor and multi-standard interoperability, adds powerful storage resource management, enables flexible volume management, establishes complete redundancy, and provides load-balanced paths with automated failover. It also allows access to SAN volumes from a LAN, migrates direct-attached SCSI storage to the SAN, and creates NAS volumes to enhance sharing of information.

The new Axis DR solution is optimized for disaster recovery and protection. This model includes the functionality necessary to implement a complete disaster recovery solution. It provides all the features of Axis SAN and creates non-disruptive point-in-time copies of information, synchronously mirrors information across a storage area network (SAN), and asynchronously replicates information across any distance using an IP network.

Dot Hill is a leading independent provider of storage networking solutions. Its SANnet product line includes storage area networks, MIL-STD-810F and NEBS Level 3 certified systems. 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 world¹s leading Internet service providers, telecommunications companies, and government agencies. Dot Hill is an ISO 9002 certified company, and its Web site is www.dothill.com.