OEM Agreement Between Dot Hill and Wortmann AG

Dot Hill Systems Corp. announced a new OEM agreement with Wortmann AG, a Germany-based IT solutions provider specializing in small to medium business and home user markets through the European distribution channel.

Wortmann’s success is founded on the evaluation, development and integration of IT solutions covering mobile, desktop, server, storage and display technologies through their Terra brand portfolio. With more than 24 years of experience, Wortmann is an IT company in Germany with subsidiaries in Austria, Switzerland, France, Netherlands and Asia.

Under the terms of the agreement, Wortmann will use Dot Hill solutions to develop their Terra IT solution portfolio and greatly expand the range of storage solutions available to their customers. The partnership will also allow Wortmann to develop integrated storage solutions for the modular (sollte Modular- Heissen) server market through Dot Hill’s SAS host interface external RAID platforms, which have been processed through Intel’s HCL program.

"Dot Hill is well established as a leading manufacturer in the storage industry and their RAID technology has been proven by many of today’s leading storage vendors. Our customers rely on us to supply the utmost in quality with leading price-performance and we are confident that the Dot Hill partnership will allow us to continue our storage market penetration on this basis," said Robin Wittland, member of the supervisory board at Wortmann AG.

"Wortmann has a very impressive range and impeccable reputation within the industry through their Terra brand of IT solutions. We are very excited about this opportunity to assist Wortmann in delivering the very latest storage technologies to their customers," said Garrett Wein, vice president of worldwide OEM sales, Dot Hill Systems.

Dot Hill 3000 Series for OEMs
At the heart of the new agreement is the Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series, a range of entry level storage solutions that rival midrange products and enable OEMs such as Wortmann to provide small-to-medium businesses and data centre managers with access to cost-effective and energy-efficient storage options. The 3000 Series also includes volume copy, snapshot and remote replication software as standard, making affordable, comprehensive disaster recovery solutions available to the entry level space.

The 3000 Series features 8Gb Fibre Channel and more recently 10Gb iSCSI which opens the door to Fibre Channel levels of SAN performance for small to medium sized business based on standard Ethernet networking technology. Additionally, the 3000 Series also features Dot Hill’s patented EcoStor ”green’ battery-free alternative for cache memory, which leverages a combination of super capacitors and flash memory that outlasts traditional batteries nearly fivefold. Business benefits include lower maintenance and disposal costs and reduced server and application down time due to scheduled battery replacement and maintenance.