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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Winchester Systems and Dot Hill Deliver Rugged Storage for Military and Mobile Data Storage Applications


Defense News:
BILLERICA, MA--(Marketwire - 04/21/10) - Winchester Systems, a leader in rugged disk arrays for military and mobile applications, and Dot Hill Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:HILL - News), a provider of world-class storage solutions and software for OEMs, open storage partners and system integrators, today announced that Winchester Systems will leverage Dot Hill's R/Evolution™ architecture to deliver ruggedized, high-density, high speed storage solutions to Winchester Systems' base of U.S. military and commercial customers.

Winchester Systems provides network-attached storage, direct-attached storage, tiered-storage, storage area network and enterprise data storage solutions for commercial,industrial, healthcare, education, government and military applications. These solutions include high performance iSCSI, SAS, SCSI, SATA and Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays; disk backup devices and other high performance commercial and military grade data storage for mid-range servers including Windows, Windows Clusters, Linux, Linux Clusters, and UNIX.

The new RR Series Rugged RAID Disk Arrays from Winchester Systems builds on Dot Hill's MIL-STD-810F/NEBS Level 3 certified/compliant Fibre Channel and iSCSI networked storage and SAS direct-attach compact, high density, high speed storage solutions, Winchester Systems broadens its portfolio of ruggedized storage offerings. Along with its line of rugged servers, Winchester Systems is marketing the rugged 4Gb Fibre Channel 2722 and 2732, 8Gb Fibre Channel 3720 and 3730, and 8Gb Fibre Channel/1Gb iSCSI hybrid 3920 and 3930, and 2522 and 2532 SAS attached storage arrays to its military and commercial markets for a wide range of applications including emergency response, video and broadcast, field exploration, data acquisition and other mobile data collection efforts.

"Dot Hill and Winchester Systems both share strong reputations for delivering dependable, high performance storage for rugged environments," said Joel Leider, CEO, Winchester Systems. "The vertical drive placement of the 2722 and 2522 is highly conducive to better storage densities, and improved vibration and shock characteristics, and was one of the reasons we selected Dot Hill as our go-to-market partner for this line."

"With so many years of experience in the ruggedized market, Winchester Systems' selection of the R/Evolution platform is a strong validation of Dot Hill's technology," said Andy Mills, vice president of marketing, Dot Hill. "Customers who acquire one of our 4Gb or 8Gb Fibre Channel or SAS-based solutions from Winchester Systems will benefit from the collective expertise of two major innovators in this field."

Available in a compact, 2U form factor with support for 24 2.5-inch disk drives, Dot Hill's Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel/iSCSI hybrid and SAS arrays feature intelligent, fully redundant enterprise-class controllers and a variety of drive options including SAS, SATA and SSD. Dot Hill RAID arrays are based on the highly modular, highly dynamic Dot Hill R/Evolution Architecture, which is designed to rapidly evolve and support OEM technology and enable OEMs to quickly achieve sustainable, competitive advantage in the volume storage market. The R/Evolution Architecture delivers high levels of performance, storage density, time-to-market leadership and configuration flexibility. Using modular and bladed components, the R/Evolution Architecture provides OEMs with a "configure-to-product" model supporting both product differentiation and rapid time-to-market for volume storage market solutions.

Photo available: RR Series Rugged RAID Disk Array

About Dot Hill
Delivering innovative technology and global support, Dot Hill empowers OEMs and resellers to bring unique storage solutions to market, quickly, easily and cost-effectively. Offering high performance and industry-leading uptime, Dot Hill's RAID technology is the foundation for best-in-class storage solutions offering enterprise-class security, availability and data protection. The company's products are in use today by the world's leading service and equipment providers, common carriers, advanced technology and telecommunications companies as well as government agencies. Dot Hill solutions are certified to meet rigorous industry standards and military specifications, as well as RoHS and WEEE international environmental standards. Headquartered in Longmont, Colo., Dot Hill has offices and/or representatives in China, Germany, Israel, Japan, United Kingdom and the United States. For more information, visit:www.dothill.com.

About Winchester Systems Inc.
Winchester Systems provides high performance FlashDisk data storage plus servers and system integration services for VMware, Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms plus Windows, Linux and Oracle Clusters. Storage offerings include Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions for commercial, healthcare, government, military, security, surveillance and educational applications. These tiered storage solutions include iSCSI, SAS, SATA, SCSI and Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays. For more information visit:
www.winsys.com.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Winchester Systems FlashDisk RAID Disk Arrays Achieve VMware Ready(TM) Status

Defense News ~ BILLERICA, MA--(Marketwire - 03/01/10) - Winchester Systems, a leading provider of data storage products, today announced that a complete line of FlashDisk RAID disk arrays, including Fibre Channel, SAS and SATA models, have achieved VMware Ready� status. This designation indicates that these FlashDisk storage products have passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and are now listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List.

Passing the extensive VMware-specified testing helps ensure that these FlashDisk products make best use of VMware technology and are ready for deployment in customer environments.

The FlashDisk RAID disk arrays that are now VMware Ready include these model numbers:

FC3494R, FC3494S, FC3414R, FC3412S, SX3418R, SX3414S, SX3488R, SX3484S, SX3498R, SX3494S, SX2318R, SX2314S, SX2388R, SX2382S, SX1392S, SX1394R, SA3498R, SA4598R and SA4594S.

"We are pleased that these FlashDisk RAID disk arrays qualify for the VMware Ready� logo, signifying to customers that they have passed specific VMware testing and interoperability criteria and are ready to run in production environments," said Bernie Mills, senior director, alliance programs, VMware.

"By using FlashDisk with VMware ESX, enterprises can deploy high speed, high capacity, highly reliable data storage with RAID 6 dual-parity data protection," stated Mr. Jerry Namery, the company's chief technology officer.

The VMware Ready program is a VMware co-branding program for qualified partner products and is a benefit of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. With more than 1,300 members worldwide, the VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to provide them a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers.

Winchester Systems FlashDisk can be found within the online VMware Partner Product Catalog athttp://wwwa.vmware.com/partnercatalog/catalog/. Hardware products can be found within the online VMware Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.

About Winchester Systems Inc.
Winchester Systems provides high performance FlashDisk data storage plus servers and system integration services for VMware, Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms plus Windows, Linux and Oracle Clusters. Storage offerings include Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions for commercial, healthcare, government, military, security, surveillance and educational applications. These tiered storage solutions include iSCSI, SAS, SATA, SCSI and Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays. For more information visit: www.winsys.com.

Winchester Systems and FlashDisk are registered trademarks of Winchester Systems Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

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Joel Leider
Chief Executive Officer
Winchester Systems Inc.
800-325-3700
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