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DOT HILL PARTNERS WITH QUALITEC FOR NORDIC DISTRIBUTION

Dot Hill announced recently that it is partnering with Qualitec, a value-added distributor for the Nordic region of Europe including Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Qualitec, based in Sweden, will distribute Dot Hill's SANnet II storage solutions to value added resellers and system integrators.

Qualitec's product mix includes storage solutions along with computer components and peripherals. Over the years Qualitec has built a strong network of resellers for the finance, military and telecommunications industry in the Nordic countries.

"We selected Dot Hill as our storage partner because we believe it offers the best value for the money," said Patrik Bjorklund, managing director for Qualitec Distribution. "Dot Hill's storage solutions are extremely reliable, scalable and dense. All this is backed by NEBS Level 3 and MIL-STD-810F certification for the telecommunications industry and the military."

Bert van der Woning, managing director of Dot Hill EMEA, said "Qualitec's principals have years of experience in the technology industry, with a focus on sales and marketing to the channel. We believe they can help us gain exposure in the Nordic region."

The SANnet II family of storage systems provides industry-leading 99.9998+ percent uptime in a compact, rugged enclosure. SANnet II brings enterprise class features into the workgroup and virtually eliminates downtime with no single points of failure.

The common modular architecture of the SANnet II product family provides seamless scalability for future growth and includes:

• SANnet II SCSI, a 2U (3.5 inches high), 12 drive, multi-host, direct attached storage (DAS) RAID solution that scales to 5.25 terabytes (TB),
• SANnet II FC, a 2U, 12 drive, 2Gbit, DAS or storage area network RAID solution that scales to 28TB in a single rack cabinet,
• SANnet II Blade, an ultra-slim 1U (1.75 inches high) solution with 4 drive bays and hardware RAID that scales to 1.75TB.

All SANnet II products feature hot-swappable, field-replaceable components including drives, controllers, power supplies, fans and event monitoring units. This product line meets MIL-STD-810F standards for Military industry and is certified to the telecommunications industry NEBS Level 3 standard.