Dot Hill AssuredSAN Storage Solutions Verified as Citrix Ready
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Latest Verification Broadens Dot Hill's Growing Portfolio of Citrix Ready Solutions
LONGMONT, Colo. - Dot Hill Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: HILL), a leading provider of unified virtual storage and SAN storage solutions, today announced that its Dot Hill AssuredSAN(TM) 3000 Series arrays have achieved full verification with Citrix® XenServer® as part of the Citrix Ready® program. The AssuredSAN 3000 Series joins Dot Hill's AssuredUVS(TM) unified virtual storage appliances as the latest Dot Hill offering to achieve Citrix Ready verification.
"The Citrix XenServer platform has been widely adopted in Windows and Linux environments, providing reduced infrastructure costs and increased productivity for enterprises around the globe," said Jim Jonez, senior director of marketing, Dot Hill. "Designated Citrix Ready, Dot Hill AssuredSAN storage products are tested and fully interoperable with Citrix XenServer and XenDesktop environments."
"Citrix Ready partners such as Dot Hill are a critical component of the success of XenServer in the marketplace," said Joe Keller, vice president of Community and Alliance Marketing, Citrix. "With its latest Citrix Ready verification, Dot Hill offers a growing portfolio of storage solutions that are optimized for virtual server and desktop environments."
Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series - Redefining Entry-level Storage
Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series arrays offer support for 8Gb Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), 10Gb iSCSI, as well as other 'state of the art' interface options. In addition, Dot Hill continues to add midrange capability and value to its 3000 Series with options such as AssuredRemote(TM) data management software for remote replication. Advanced data management such as AssuredCopy(TM), Dot Hill's volume copy technology, enabling the creation of independent data volume copies for additional data protection, and Dot Hill's AssuredSnap(TM) snapshot capability for improved data availability and business continuity, allow companies to reduce the burden of meeting modern data retention policies. The AssuredSAN 3000 systems can scale to a total of 288 terabytes of storage with inexpensive JBOD expansion units.
The AssuredSAN 3000 Series features a number of eco-friendly enhancements such as drive spin-down capability and 595-watt 80 PLUS-rated (greater than 80 percent energy efficiency) power supplies for reduced operating costs. Additionally, the AssuredSAN 3000 Series also features Dot Hill's patented EcoStor(TM) "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.
About the Citrix Ready Program
The Citrix Ready program identifies verified solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including Citrix® XenDesktop®, XenApp(TM), XenServer®, NetScaler® and GoToMeeting®. The Citrix Ready designation is awarded to third party products that have successfully met verification criteria set by Citrix, and gives customers an added confidence in the compatibility of the joint solution offering. The Citrix Ready program leverages industry-leading alliances across the Citrix partner eco-system to meet a wide variety of customer needs, and currently incorporates over 2,800 partners who have demonstrated more than 18,000 product verifications. It also includes the Citrix Ready Community Verified program which allows customers to see thousands of products that have been verified by other customers to work in their production environments. The Citrix Ready program received the Alliance Excellence Award from the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) for creating a strong community through implementation of new, innovative best practices. More information about the Citrix Ready program can be found at www.citrix.com/citrixready. Reach Citrix ready using social media via the Citrix Ready blog site and Twitter.
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 us at www.dothill.com.
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