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Dot Hill Awarded Patent For Storage Architecture Bus Zoning

Dot Hill Systems Corp announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company U.S. patent 6,839,788, entitled "Bus Zoning in a Channel Independent Storage Controller Architecture." The patent derives from Dot Hill's proprietary RAID controller technology.

"We are pleased that another patent award has been added to Dot Hill's growing portfolio of intellectual property," said Dana Kammersgard, president of Dot Hill. "This patent award also demonstrates our ongoing commitment to offer our customers innovative storage networking solutions through research and development."

Through a unique, fault-tolerant backplane design using bus zoning, the patented technology provides very high internal performance while preserving high data availability. This technology enables high-speed, reliable access to business-critical applications.