Dot Hill Systems

Dot Hill Systems Corp is a major manufacture of computer Storage area network arrays. Providing hardware and software products for small and large computer data storage systems. Dot Hill was started in 1997 in Carlsbad, California.^[1] In 2004 Dot Hill acquired Chaparral Network Storage in Longmont, Colorado. Chaparral Network Storage was started in 2000 and also manufactured storage systems.^[2] In 2010 Dot Hill start moving almost all Carlsbad operations to Longmont.^[3] Dot Hill was listed on the NASDAQ as HILL.^[4]

Dot Hill products have interfaces systems supporting: Fibre Channel (FC), Internet small computer systems interface (iSCSI), and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). Products having standard hard drives and Solid-state drives (SSD). Dot supports a large range of enterprise class RAID software. Storage management applications run on Windows, Linux (RHEL)-(SUSE), Apple snow leopard, Oracle's Solaris, XenServer and VMware ESX servers. With host interfaces to: SSD, SAS and SATA drive technologies.^[5]

Seagate Technology finalized the acquisition of the company in October 2015.^[6]

Products

• AssuredSAN® Hardware^[7]
  • 2000 Series
  • 3000 Series
  • 4000 Series
    • 4004 Series
  • Pro5000 Series
  • 48 Ultra Series
• Software^[8]
  • AssuredCopy
  • AssuredSnap
  • AssuredRemote
  • AssuredVRA - High performance RAID stack

Industries

• Media and Entertainment Post product: Digital cinema Post-production requires high speed of large files.^[9] Dot Hill as partnered with Digital Film Technology to capture 4k DPX files at 15 frames per second.^[10]
• Digital imaging
• High-performance computing that requires fast read and write times.^[11][12]
• Large and midsize corporate for email and databases storage servers.
• Financial accounting and Investment banking that requires speed and multi-level RAID protection.
• Telecom storage
• Video on demand - video streaming
• Defense and government
• Healthcare
• Tiered storage and Nested RAID levels solutions
• Off site back up, Snapshot,^[13] Disk mirroring, Replication, Provisioning
  • Dot Hill has partnership with other major computer manufacturers for interoperability.^[14]

See also

• Metadata controller
• List of file systems
• StorNext File System-CVFS
• Xsan
• Megabyte (MB)
• Gigabyte (GB)
• Terabyte (TB), a unit of information (often measuring storage capacity)
• Terabit (Tb), a unit of information (often measuring data transfer)
• Petabyte (PB)

External links

• Official website

References

1. finance.yahoo.com, Dot Hill
2. thefreelibrary.com, Chaparral Network Storage starts IPO
3. SOCALTECH LLC, Dot Hill moves, new headquarters in Longmont, Colorado, June 16, 2010
4. finance.yahoo.com, HILL, NASDAQ
5. NY Times, Dot Hill Systems Corporation, HILL: Nasdaq; Technology/Computer Hardware
7. Dot Hill storage arrays
8. Dot Hill Software
9. NAB- National Association of Broadcasters Exhibitor Details, Dot Hill
10. finance.yahoo.com, Industry-Pioneering Dot Hill Ultra48 Storage Array Now Integrated With DFT Scanity for High-Performance 4K Video Applications, Industry's-First AssuredSAN Ultra48 Provides Multiple Hours of 4K Content and Addresses Demanding Performance Requirements of Lightning-Fast Scanity HDR Scanner Dot Hill Systems Corporation, August 6, 2014
11. studiodaily.com, Dot Hill Storage Solutions Optimized for Advanced Video Post-Production
12. finance.yahoo.com. Dot Hill, Greater Capacity and High Speed Connectivity
13. finance.yahoo.com, dothill Snapshot
14. Dothill Partners in technology