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Company broadens portfolio of solutions for expanded, award-winning channel program; AssuredSAN 3000 Series brings midrange-featured solutions to entry-level customers

 Dot Hill Systems today expanded its award-winning channel program with the introduction of its next-generation AssuredSAN disk-to-disk data protection appliances targeted at small-to-medium businesses (SMBs).

The Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series, based on the company’s new 3000 Series storage platform announced in February, features a suite of disaster recovery applications, including Dot Hill’s new AssuredRemote remote replication software. By including robust volume copy, snapshot and remote replication as standard in the AssuredSAN 3000 Series, Dot Hill makes affordable, comprehensive disaster recovery solutions available to the entry level space through its growing base of channel partners.

The latest addition to Dot Hill’s powerful suite of advanced data management offerings, Dot Hill AssuredRemote is completely integrated into Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 storage appliances, providing easy-to-use, remote office data protection and eliminating the need for expensive, third party, host-based software. The combination of AssuredSnap snapshot, AssuredCopy volume copy, and AssuredRemote functionality, together in the AssuredSAN 3000 line, enables Dot Hill channel partners to deliver a complete disaster recovery offering for SMBs. This low maintenance, cost-effective approach to remote data protection, recovery, and migration, significantly reduces the burden of meeting modern data retention policies and compliance testing associated with government regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA acts. 

With embedded-in-the-array remote replication of snapshot volumes, AssuredRemote offloads backup operations from critical application servers, thereby creating little to no impact to production servers by asynchronously copying and synchronizing data for up to 16 volumes simultaneously, directly between two AssuredSAN 3000R appliances via the local storage area network (SAN) or wide area networks (WANs). Replication can operate via the Fibre Channel ports and/or the iSCSI ports in the case of the dual protocol AssuredSAN 3900 models, and fully supports high-availability failover using dual controllers.

“The arrival of the AssuredSAN 3000 Series gives us an incredible opportunity to bolster our professional services offerings,” said Howie Evans, vice president of Dallas Digital Services. “By introducing affordable, turnkey data protection solutions into the SMB space, Dot Hill presents us with new opportunities to enhance this additional revenue stream.”

“Building on the success of Dot Hill's AssuredSAN 2000 Series, the addition of enhanced snapshot and AssuredRemote features to the new AssuredSAN 3000 Series helps to create a reliable disaster recovery solution at a competitive price point. The new 8Gb Fibre Channel connectivity and an option for multiprotocol Fibre Channel and iSCSI hosts within the same solution will also put this system at the forefront of the industry,” states Paul Hickingbotham, solutions manager at Hammer plc.

“The response to our AssuredSAN launch in September was extremely positive,” said David Zimmer, vice president of worldwide channel sales and marketing, Dot Hill. “Customers told us that they would like to see more data protection features such as AssuredSnap and AssuredCopy in future-generation products. The AssuredSAN 3000 Series is the result; by adding AssuredRemote to our new 8Gb Fibre Channel-based 3000 Series architecture, we’re providing SMB customers with affordable, midrange-featured data protection appliances.”

The AssuredSAN 3000 Series bolsters the award-winning Dot Hill Authorized Partner Program by arming Dot Hill channel partners with a broad portfolio of storage solutions, extended warranties and professional services opportunities. Dot Hill provides extensive resources, tools and support to enable channel partners’ success, including lead generation, marketing assistance, opportunity registration discounts, and in-field sales support.  Backed by a three-year warranty, Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series storage systems are available in a wide variety of configurations including AssuredSAN “R” models with AssuredRemote, AssuredSnap and AssuredCopy; AssuredSAN “S” models with AssuredSnap and AssuredCopy; and AssuredSAN “C” base models with free 60-day trial access to  data protection software. Flagship configurations include:

• AssuredSAN 3930R Hybrid 8Gb Fibre Channel/iSCSI with 12 3.5-inch disk drives
• AssuredSAN 3920R Hybrid 8Gb Fibre Channel/iSCSI with 24 2.5-inch disk drives
• AssuredSAN 3730R 8Gb Fibre Channel with 12 3.5-inch disk drives
• AssuredSAN 3720R 8Gb Fibre Channel with 24 2.5-inch disk drives

Additional Information and Availability

The Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series is available through Dot Hill channel partners now. List prices are expected to start at $20,200 for a dual controller Fibre Channel system fully populated with 500GB SATA drives.

For more details about Dot Hill’s 3000 Series architecture, visit www.dothill.com/3000series. For more information on Dot Hill AssuredSAN disaster recovery solutions, visit: http://www.dothill.com/products/san-arrays/.