News | July 21, 2011

Dot Hill And BEXSA Solutions Deliver Ruggedized Storage Systems To Canadian Government Agencies

Companies to Address Storage Requirements for Canadian Military Operations Including Airborne, Ground, Naval and Unmanned Applications

Dot Hill is extending its reach into Canada and into government applications.

Dot Hill Systems Corp., a leading provider of Unified Virtual Storage and SAN storage solutions, recently announced it has entered into an agreement with BEXSA Solutions Inc, a manufacturer's representative for embedded systems companies in Canada. Under the terms of the agreement, BEXSA Solutions will market Dot Hill's ruggedized rack-mount RAID storage solutions and the Assured UVS Unified Virtual Storage appliance to Canadian OEM integrators and government military agencies that support airborne, ground, naval and unmanned mission-critical programs.

BEXSA Solutions specializes in rugged communications, providing design capabilities and full systems for applications that require rugged sub-systems, which together provide a total solution for tactical, unmanned, and C4 communication networks. Covering Eastern Canada, BEXSA's team of professionals provide years of experience in business development, sales, design, customer service and support.

"We rely on leading COTS suppliers such as Dot Hill to help us provide a full communication network of solutions to our marketplace," said Pierre Carriere, president of BEXSA Solutions. "Dot Hill's years of delivering field-proven, ruggedized solutions for government and military applications made them the logical selection as our go-to-market partner for storage."

"Our agreement with BEXSA Solutions allows us to extend Dot Hill's reach into the Canadian marketplace and build on our ruggedized storage portfolio," said Inese Lanka, senior director, Federal Sales, Dot Hill Systems. "BEXSA's extensive experience in the rugged communications market is a great fit for Dot Hill, providing another way for military integrators to source reliable, robust COTS storage systems for mobile applications and numerous other government programs."

Dot Hill — A Trusted Partner for Government and Defense Applications
Over the past twenty years, Dot Hill has led the industry in developing high-quality, commercial and military grade storage products supporting the mission-critical applications of government customers worldwide. Dot Hill's dedicated government and defense team holds the industry knowledge to quickly understand the unique and complex needs of government and defense environments. With a rapid product development pace and a unique architecture, Dot Hill provides unparalleled modularity and flexibility to meet customer needs.

Dot Hill provides iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage solutions featuring NEBS Level 3, MIL SPEC 810F, and 810G compliance and certifications to meet the most rugged requirements. The company's storage arrays are used extensively for mobile C4ISR centers, ground stations, deployable command centers and video archives where scalability, reliability, and redundancy are essential. Dot Hill storage systems support interchangeable SAS, SATA and solid state drives (SSDs).

About Dot Hill
Leveraging its proprietary Assured family of storage solutions, Dot Hill solves many of today's most challenging storage problems — helping IT to improve performance, increase availability, simplify operations, and reduce costs. Dot Hill's solutions combine breakthrough virtualization software with the industry's most flexible and extensive hardware platform and automated management to deliver best-in-class unified virtual storage and SAN solutions. Headquartered in Longmont, Colo., Dot Hill has offices and/or representatives in China, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

For more information, visit www.dothill.com.

SOURCE: Dot Hill Systems Corp