“Dot Hill Systems Corp. (NYSE: HIL), a leading independent
provider of storage and SAN solutions, today announced that
Northern Lights Computer Inc., a leading provider of turn-key
Linux solutions in Japan, has chosen to resell Dot Hill’s SANnet
systems to its customers in need of high-end storage area networks
(SANs) and tape backup. This strategic partnership leverages
both companies’ core expertise in providing solutions to the Linux
community. “
“Dot Hill and Northern Lights are kicking-off their partnership
by showing their joint solution in Northern Lights’ booth at the
LinuxWorld show in Japan on May 11th and 12th, which demonstrates
e-commerce and other applications being performed on Northern
Lights’ rack mount and Linux database servers and Dot Hill’s SANnet
solution. Also at the show and in conjunction with Northern Lights,
Jim Wayda, Vice President of Software Engineering at Dot Hill, is
presenting to the Japanese Linux community, the University of
Minnesota’s Global File System (GFS) dlocks 0.9.6 proposed
specification, which he co-authored. Northern Lights and Dot Hill
also are conducting a joint press conference describing their
solutions.”
“We chose Dot Hill because SANnet is the best storage system for
Linux-based SANs, and our customers expect the best,” said Nobuo
Kita, Chief Executive Officer of Northern Lights. “SANnet delivers
the most reliable, highest density and highest performance storage
systems for the Linux platform today, at a reasonable cost. We also
chose Dot Hill because of SANnet’s unique ability to support GFS
dlocks within the RAID controller, and Dot Hill’s focus on and
expertise in Linux. Dot Hill understands Linux like no other
storage company.”