Dot Hill Announces Certification of AssuredSAN Storage Arrays With Blackmagic Design and Tiger Technology

AssuredSAN 4004 Storage Solutions From Dot Hill Provide Superior Performance, Reliability and Scalability to Post-Production Workflows


AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Sept. 15, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IBC2014, Hall 6, Stand A.16Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq:HILL), a trusted supplier of innovative storage systems to the media and entertainment industry, announced today at the IBC symposium in Amsterdam that two leading post-production solution providers have certified Dot Hill AssuredSAN® 4004 storage for use with their workflow solutions.

Blackmagic Design, which creates the world's highest quality and most innovative post-production, film and broadcast technology solutions, has certified the Dot Hill AssuredSAN Series for use with its DaVinci Resolve 11 color correction and editing solution.

Tiger Technology, which designs, markets, and supports world-class innovative storage workflow management solutions, has certified Dot Hill AssuredSAN storage for use with its Tiger Series solutions.

Tiger Technology will be showcasing its Tiger Series workflow management solutions running on a Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4004 storage platform here at the show in Hall 7, Stand C.10. Robert Keske, Tiger Technology CEO, said, "We're thrilled to be working closely with Dot Hill and to certify its great high-performance storage with Tiger Series Shared Storage Workflow Solutions. The industry is hungry for alternatives to complex and expensive file-sharing products, and the certified Dot Hill – Tiger combination provides multi-user content-centric productions with a complete and easy project, workspace, user, and media management solution."

Joe Swanson, Dot Hill vice president of marketing and business development, said, "The AssuredSAN product line is a perfect match for M&E requirements, delivering predictable performance, exceptional reliability and scalability. We are pleased to be certified by Tiger Technology and Blackmagic Design, which further validates our unique ability to cost-effectively address high-end video workflow requirements including the ability to handle multiple streams of 4K video directly from our storage solutions."

Dot Hill's rock-solid, wicked-fast AssuredSAN arrays provide over half a petabyte of high-speed 16Gb Fibre Channel storage with 99.999 percent data availability that can be shared by multiple users for maximum efficiency and increased workflow productivity. Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4004 solutions are built on the company's proven and patented RAID architecture, which integrates performance-tuning and optimization of randomized sequential I/O for Media and Entertainment workloads.

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 software with the industry's most flexible and extensive hardware platform and automated management to deliver best-in-class solutions. Headquartered in Longmont, Colo., Dot Hill has offices and/or representatives in China, Germany, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

For more information, visit us at www.dothill.com.

Statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ from those expressed or implied by the statements. For a discussion of risks and uncertainties that Dot Hill may face, please consult the Forms 10-K and 10-Q most recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Dot Hill. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they were made and Dot Hill undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect changes in circumstances.

Dot Hill is not responsible for statements made by third parties, including Tiger Technology.

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