BIOLOGY

New family redefines entry level product category with breakout midrange, performance and energy-saving features

Dot Hill Systems today announced it is now shipping its next-generation 3000 Series disk arrays with support for 8Gb Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), dual interface 8Gb Fibre Channel and 1Gb iSCSI, and optional AssuredRemote data management software.

The 3000 Series ushers in a new category of feature-rich, entry level storage solutions that rival more costly midrange products, providing small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) and data center managers with access to cost-effective and energy-efficient storage options that may previously have been beyond the scope of their budgets. The addition of AssuredRemote software offers SMB IT managers a cost-effective and low maintenance approach to remote office data protection, recovery and migration, and significantly reduces the burden of meeting modern data retention policies and compliance testing associated with government regulations such as the HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley acts.

In addition, Dot Hill’s 3000 Series enables storage network implementers to protect their investments and provides non-disruptive storage upgrades through the use of 8Gb Fibre Channel and/or dual interface 8Gb Fibre Channel/1Gb iSCSI solutions that are fully backward-compatible with existing 4Gb Fibre Channel and 1Gb iSCSI installations. With the addition of drive spin-down, mixed drive type support and dual protocol interfaces, users can now combine both high performance primary volumes and secondary storage with different performance and energy usage profiles in the same physical unit.

“Small businesses want affordable, high performance storage solutions that are highly flexible yet easy to use,” said Andy Mills, vice president of marketing and business development, Dot Hill Systems. “By adding remote data protection software, increased host connectivity options and significant energy-saving features, we believe we are delivering solutions that redefine the entry level storage space, while addressing today’s budget and operational expenditure needs.”