Dot Hill and BEXSA Solutions Deliver Ruggedized Storage Systems to Canadian Government Agencies
Companies to Address Storage Requirements for Canadian Military Operations Including Airborne, Ground, Naval and Unmanned Applications
LONGMONT, Colo., July 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a leading provider of Unified Virtual Storage and SAN storage solutions, today announced it has entered into an agreement with BEXSA Solutions Inc, a manufacturer's representative for embedded systems companies in Canada. Under the terms of the agreement, BEXSA Solutions will market Dot Hill's ruggedized rack-mount RAID storage solutions and the Assured UVS™ Unified Virtual Storage appliance to Canadian OEM integrators and government military agencies that support airborne, ground, naval and unmanned mission-critical programs.
BEXSA Solutions specializes in rugged communications, providing design capabilities and full systems for applications that require rugged sub-systems, which together provide a total solution for tactical, unmanned, and C4 communication networks. Covering Eastern Canada, BEXSA's team of professionals provide years of experience in business development, sales, design, customer service and support.
"We rely on leading COTS suppliers such as Dot Hill to help us provide a full communication network of solutions to our marketplace," said Pierre Carriere, president of BEXSA Solutions. "Dot Hill's years of delivering field-proven, ruggedized solutions for government and military applications made them the logical selection as our go-to-market partner for storage."
"Our agreement with BEXSA Solutions allows us to extend Dot Hill's reach into the Canadian marketplace and build on our ruggedized storage portfolio," said Inese Lanka, senior director, Federal Sales, Dot Hill Systems. "BEXSA's extensive experience in the rugged communications market is a great fit for Dot Hill, providing another way for military integrators to source reliable, robust COTS storage systems for mobile applications and numerous other government programs."
Dot Hill – A Trusted Partner for Government and Defense Applications
Over the past twenty years, Dot Hill has led the industry in developing high-quality, commercial and military grade storage products supporting the mission-critical applications of government customers worldwide. Dot Hill's dedicated government and defense team holds the industry knowledge to quickly understand the unique and complex needs of government and defense environments. With a rapid product development pace and a unique architecture, Dot Hill provides unparalleled modularity and flexibility to meet customer needs.
Dot Hill provides iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage solutions featuring NEBS Level 3, MIL SPEC 810F, and 810G compliance and certifications to meet the most rugged requirements. The company's storage arrays are used extensively for mobile C4ISR centers, ground stations, deployable command centers and video archives where scalability, reliability, and redundancy are essential. Dot Hill storage systems support interchangeable SAS, SATA and solid state drives (SSDs).
About Dot Hill
Leveraging its proprietary Assured family of storage solutions, Dot Hill solves many of today's most challenging storage problems – helping IT to improve performance, increase availability, simplify operations, and reduce costs. Dot Hill's solutions combine breakthrough virtualization software with the industry's most flexible and extensive hardware platform and automated management to deliver best-in-class unified virtual storage and SAN solutions. Headquartered in Longmont, Colo., Dot Hill has offices and/or representatives in China, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
For more information, visit us at www.dothill.com.
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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 the statements. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding: the size and timing of orders placed by BEXSA; any improvement to Dot Hill's financial results due to its relationship with BEXSA and; the benefits and performance of any particular Dot Hill product in any particular environment. The risks that contribute to the uncertain nature of the forward-looking statements include: that the relationship between Dot Hill and BEXSA may terminate at any time and does not require minimum purchases; changing customer preferences in the open systems data storage market; and unforeseen supply, technological, intellectual property or engineering issues. Plus, there are many other risks not listed here that may affect Dot Hill's business, 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 the company'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.
Contact:
Steve Sturgeon
Lutz PR
858-472-5669
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Company Contact:
Ruth Macdonald
Marketing Communications Manager
303-845-3364
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BEXSA Contact:
Pierre Carriere
President
613-762-2681
[email protected]
SOURCE Dot Hill Systems Corp.
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