BIOLOGY

Dot Hill will exhibit its SANnet(R) II storage solutions at CeBIT, the world's largest IT expo, March 18-24, at the Hannover Exhibition Grounds in Hannover, Germany. The following Dot Hill channel partners will display SANnet II storage solutions in a variety of configurations: INCOM GmbH, Hall 1-stand 5g6, will display the full SANnet II product line including Fibre Channel, SCSI and Blade storage solutions. A Dot Hill representative will be on hand throughout the exhibition in the INCOM stand. Cristie GmbH, Hall 1-stand 7g2, will demonstrate SANnet II Fibre Channel in a high-availability configuration. This demonstration is well suited to mission-critical applications. Computerlinks AG, Hall 6-stand G38, will demonstrate a storage area network (SAN) configuration including a backup solution and tape library. Dot Hill representatives will be available in the Computerlinks stand throughout the exhibition. "Our SANnet II product line has been well received by our channel partners and we are pleased to support them at CeBIT," said Bert van der Woning, managing director of Dot Hill EMEA. "We look forward to demonstrating the products to attendees interested in reliable high-performance storage solutions." 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. 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(R) and SANpath(R) 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. 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.