BIOLOGY

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND -- Dot Hill Systems Corp., (NYSE:HIL) a leading provider of carrier-class information storage and storage area network (SAN) solutions announced today that its new SANnet(TM) Axis intelligent storage appliance and its SANnet 7100 Fibre Channel storage system have been selected as the essential storage components for the GRID demonstration at the High Performance Networking Forum (HNF-Europe) Conference at CERN, September 26-27, in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is host of the HNF-Europe conference and is the world's largest particle physics center. "Dot Hill is proud to be a part of the GRID demonstration at CERN. Our new SANnet Axis will establish the benefits of introducing intelligent storage services to GRID deployments. The result is a significant breakthrough in distributed computing with shared WAN storage access," said Dana Kammersgard, Dot Hill's chief technology officer. "SANnet storage systems are being demonstrated with major server platforms including Sun, IBM, Compaq, and Silicon Graphics (SGI), and offer the only documented 99.9998+ percent uptime, providing the high-availability required by CERN." SANnet Axis enhances high-performance distributed computing environments by providing shared storage access to virtual volumes over both IP and FC for both NAS files and SAN blocks. Virtual volumes can be geographically dispersed over heterogeneous storage pools. This flexibility and reach allows collaborative research to expand globally with traditional storage resource management (SRM) functionality. Information is protected through Axis's automated mirroring, remote replication and snapshot volume increment services. John Burkey, Dot Hill's EMEA senior technical manager, will deliver a presentation at the CERN HNF Europe conference entitled, "Storage Solutions for High Performance Distributed Computing," on September 27. Burkey will also present "Storage Virtualization-Beyond SAN and NAS" to conference attendees on September 26. CASPUR/INFN, a prominent research consortium in Italy, has tested the SANnet Axis and will participate in the CERN HNF Conference. Andrei Maslennikov, CASPUR/INFN lead systems engineer said, "We have been working closely with Dot Hill to test the Internet Protocol (IP) functionality of SANnet Axis. We are convinced SANnet Axis is a viable solution for asymmetric storage access of unreliable networks, such as a wide area network (WAN) or the Internet." For more information visit www.dothill.com