BIOLOGY

Dot Hill is demonstrating its SANnet® II Fibre Channel storage solutions and exhibiting the entire SANnet II product line at FOSE 2004, the largest and longest-running government technology showcase, March 23-25, at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Product demonstrations and displays are in Dot Hill's booth 3127. Dot Hill is also showcasing its new high-performance Rio storage solution, which uses controller technology from its recent acquisition of Chaparral. "Our SANnet II product line is MIL-STD-810F certified to meet the rigorous environmental requirements of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)," said Omar Barraza, Dot Hill's director of marketing. "SANnet II is rugged and compact making it well suited for military field conditions. It also delivers the high performance and fault-tolerance required for mission-critical applications used by many federal government agencies." The SANnet II FC storage solutions feature end-to-end 2Gbit Fibre Channel technology with support for sophisticated storage area network (SAN) and traditional direct attached storage (DAS) architectures. Dot Hill's SANscape® and SANpath® storage software enable comprehensive remote management and secure storage networking. SANnet II FC storage solutions feature 12 disk drive bays, single or dual controllers, AC or DC power supplies and eight host ports in a compact 2U (3.5 inches high) enclosure. Capacity scales without interruption by adding one or more expansion systems providing an additional 12 disk drive bays each. SANnet II FC solutions deliver very fast performance -- up to 160,000 transactions per second from cache. The SANnet II family of storage solutions provides industry leading 99.9998+ percent uptime in compact, rack-optimized packages. SANnet II brings carrier-grade reliability and enterprise-class features to open systems platforms. The common modular architecture of the SANnet II family provides seamless scalability for future growth within storage networking and direct attached environments. All SANnet II products feature hot-swappable, field-replaceable components including drives, controllers, power supplies, fans and event monitoring units. This product line meets MIL-STD-810F standards for the U.S. Department of Defense and is certified to the telecommunications industry NEBS Level 3 standard. Dot Hill Systems Corp. is a leader in the innovative design and delivery of storage networking solutions to channel partners worldwide. Its products include the SANnet II family of storage systems, SANscape® storage management software, SANpath® storage networking software and professional training, support and service. For more information, visit Dot Hill on the Web at www.dothill.com.