Dot Hill Expands Distribution through Partnership with Harwood International
Agreement Allows Storage Leader to Deliver Smart, Simple Storage to Additional Resellers Across U.S.
LONGMONT, Colo., Oct. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a leading provider of Unified Virtual Storage and SAN storage solutions, today announced a distribution agreement with Harwood International, an established global solutions-focused distributor with extensive experience in storage solutions and an outstanding track record of service and support.
Under the terms of the agreement, Harwood will distribute Dot Hill's award-winning AssuredSAN™ storage arrays, and AssuredUVS™ storage virtualization products that are designed to address the storage requirements of entry- to mid-level markets. Based in Chattanooga, Tenn., Harwood has been delivering leading IT solutions for more than 36 years to more than 9,000 customers in 92 countries, by offering best-of-breed storage solutions to its customers, partners and resellers.
"Harwood provides Dot Hill with access to an expanded reseller base that is very experienced in delivering storage solutions. With an impeccable reputation for service, Harwood has built strong ties with a dynamic midsize enterprise reseller community," said Brad Painter, vice president of channel sales, Dot Hill. "Given Harwood's history and proven success with resellers, and Dot Hill's nearly three decades of delivering innovative storage and software solutions – this pairing is a perfect match."
"This new partnership is exciting because Dot Hill's market-leading AssuredSAN product offers a number of highly compelling enterprise-level features, including demonstrated 99.999% reliability. The newest addition of the 3003 storage line allows us to offer our reseller community one of the fastest entry-level storage arrays on the market – perfect for demanding workloads in both the rich media and virtual desktop environments," said Larry Harwood, president of Harwood International Corporation. "Dot Hill is also clearly focused on investing in areas that make a difference to our partners – such as ease of doing business, lead generation and great margins – and we're in turn excited to help extend the company's reach into more resellers' portfolios."
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 about Dot Hill, please visit 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 Harwood; any improvement to Dot Hill's financial results due to its relationship with Harwood; the benefits, reliability or performance of Dot Hill's products in any particular environment; and the actual number of customers of Harwood, or countries in which it does business. The risks that contribute to the uncertain nature of the forward-looking statements include: that the relationship between Dot Hill and Harwood, as well as those between Harwood and its customers, may terminate at any time and do 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.
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