Dot Hill Adds Proven Storage Veterans to Lead Channel Sales and Customer Services

LONGMONT, Colo., July 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a leading provider of Unified Virtual Storage and SAN storage solutions, today announced the hire of two storage industry veterans. Brad Painter has been named vice president of worldwide channel sales while Scott Brooks will take on the new position of vice president of customer services and sales.

With more than 24 years of industry experience, Painter joins Dot Hill from Pillar Data Systems, recently acquired by Oracle, where he served as vice president of worldwide channel sales. While at Pillar, Painter was responsible for worldwide channel sales and all distribution of Pillar branded products. Before this, Painter was vice president of worldwide sales at Lantronix, a market leader in wired and wireless device networking. Prior to Lantronix, Painter was director of worldwide host bus adaptor sales for Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, a global manufacturer of semiconductor solutions, and held various senior sales management positions at Crossroads Systems, Pinacor, Exabyte and Hewlett-Packard.

Dot Hill's new vice president of customer services and sales, Scott Brooks, has more than 24 years of experience in IT sales and customer services, giving him a unique perspective on both OEM and end customer requirements and priorities. Prior to joining Dot Hill, he held various positions over the past 11 years with LSI's Engenio Storage Group, recently acquired by NetApp, ranging from international sales to global customer support and services. Brooks also served as Midwest regional sales director for Diebold as well as regional services director for QMS Inc.

"The hiring of these two proven industry veterans, recruited from our competitors, will increase our ability to expand our customer and revenue base," said Dana Kammersgard, president and chief executive officer, Dot Hill. "I have great confidence that Brad and Scott, with their many years of serving businesses with well-regarded IT brands, will be able to take Dot Hill's sales and services programs to the next level while enhancing the Dot Hill customer experience for both OEM and channel customers. The ongoing consolidation of the industry, coupled with Dot Hill's compelling strategy and well-regarded intellectual property portfolio, is creating unique opportunities to attract proven talent. With this new leadership in the executive team, Dot Hill will continue our strategy to grow revenue and increase margins across all business opportunities."

In 2010, Dot Hill grew channel revenue 54 percent year-over-year, expanded distribution coverage into France, Germany and Italy and launched the Dot Hill Assured UVS line of unified virtual storage appliances. In 2011 the company was recognized for its Dot Hill Connections Partner Program and was named to CRN's 5-Star Partner Programs Guide for the second consecutive year. In addition Dot Hill earned a spot on Everything Channel's CRN Virtualization 100 list, which highlights the most compelling virtualization solutions and vendors delivering best-in-class products to meet the growing needs of the channel. Dot Hill chief executive officer, Dana Kammersgard, has also been recognized as a "Storage Superstar" by Everything Channel's CRN.

About Dot Hill

Leveraging its proprietary Assured family of storage solutions, Dot Hill solves many of today's most challenging storage problems – helping its customers 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: any improvement in Dot Hill's financial results or sales growth through the channel due to the hiring of Brad Painter or Scott Brooks; the benefits or performance of Dot Hill products in any particular environment; and any improvement to Dot Hill's results due to industry recognition of its channel programs. The risks that contribute to the uncertain nature of the forward-looking statements include: that the relationship between Dot Hill and its employees, including Brad Painter and Scott Brooks, could terminate at any time; the limited influence or visibility of industry recognition of Dot Hill's channel program; that historical sales of Dot Hill's channel sales growth, as well as historical successes of any particular Dot Hill employee, may not be indicative of future growth or successes; changing customer and partner preferences in the open systems computing market; and unforeseen supply, technological, intellectual property or engineering issues. However, there are many other risks not listed here that may affect the future business of Dot Hill, 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. Dot Hill undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect any change in circumstances or events.   

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SOURCE Dot Hill Systems Corp.