Industry leading provider of custom computing solutions for the federal government and heavy commercial sectors to leverage Dot Hill's iSCSI solutions and next-generation Fibre Channel offerings CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dot Hill Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:HILL), a world-class provider of entry-level and midrange storage solutions for OEMs and resellers, today announced that Chassis Plans, the Original Industrial Computer Source®, will offer Dot Hill storage arrays to enhance its offerings for the federal government and heavy commercial computing sectors. Chassis Plans (http://www.chassis-plans.com/) is a recognized leader in manufacturing fully configured, turn-key, military-grade, rack-mount computer solutions that are tailored to meet specific customer application requirements for the industrial, rugged, and military markets. Key military customers include companies such as L3, Lockheed, and Northrop Grumman. Notable commercial customers include Siemens, Nikon, & General Electric. Chassis Plans will leverage Dot Hill's RAID storage solutions to expand its product offerings to include the MIL-STD-810F/NEBS Level 3-certified 5730, as well as Dot Hill's other high-performance RAID storage arrays, which will compliment its custom compute platform offerings designed for federal system integrators and federal government end-users, as well as heavy commercial customers. Dot Hill's 5730 storage solution is independently certified to meet the rigorous MIL-STD-810F and NEBS Level 3 requirements of the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. "For the average Chassis Plans customer, Dot Hill products work in unison with our existing custom compute offerings, to expand their capabilities and applications," said Steve Travis, vice president, Sales, Chassis Plans. "Through the Chassis Plans-Dot Hill collaboration, we are bringing to market innovative computing solutions with storage functionality that meet all the unique requirements of our customers - including transaction speed, redundancy, ruggedness, and compact footprint, along with support for Solid State Disks, SATA and SAS drives." "Chassis Plans focuses on the ruggedized market relating to military and industrial customers. These customers are effectively the ultimate storage 'power users' and have a tremendous need for performance, scalability and redundancy, in a compact and ruggedized form factor," said Andy Mills, vice president of marketing, Dot Hill. "Dot Hill storage systems are extremely well equipped to address all these requirements." Chassis Plans' customers will also have the ability to license Dot Hill's AssuredCopy(TM) volume copy and AssuredSnap(TM) software, which help customers to solve many of today's data management challenges by providing support for business continuance, disaster recovery and regulatory compliance. Dot Hill' AssuredCopy provides the ability to create full volume copies or backups of disk volumes with the ability to quickly restore whole volumes, folders or individual files. Dot Hill AssuredSnap 'snapshot functionality provides the ability to create up to 256 point-in-time copies or backups of disk volumes with instant restoration of data to any captured (snapshot) point in time. Dot Hill R/Evolution(TM) Architecture Provides Competitive Advantage for OEMs Dot Hill next-generation 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. 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 Carlsbad, Calif., Dot Hill has offices and/or representatives in China, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and the United States. Chassis Plans and Original Industrial Computer Source are the trademarks of Chassis Plans. All other trademarks belong to Dot Hill. For more information, visit: http://www.dothill.com/ HILL-G Certain statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical fact 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 materially from those expressed or implied by the statements. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding: the size and timing of orders for Dot Hill's Products due to its collaboration with Chassis Plans; any improvement to Dot Hill's financial results due to the collaboration; the continued existence of the collaboration, and; the performance, benefits or reliability of Dot Hill products in any particular environment. The risks that contribute to the uncertain nature of the forward-looking statements include: that Chassis Plans is under no obligation to purchase product from Dot Hill or continue the collaboration; changing customer preferences in the open systems computing market; and unforeseen supply, technological, intellectual property or engineering issues. However, there are many other risks not listed here that may affect the future business of Dot Hill, as well as the forward-looking statements contained herein. To learn about such risks, you should read the risk factors set forth in Dot Hill's public filings with the SEC, including the Forms 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q most recently filed by Dot Hill. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Dot Hill undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made. DATASOURCE: Dot Hill Systems Corp. CONTACT: Steve Sturgeon of Lutz PR, +1-858-472-5669, , for Dot Hill Systems Corp., or Ruth Macdonald, Marketing Communications Manager of Dot Hill Systems Corp., +1-720-839-6614, Web Site: http://www.dothill.com/ http://www.chassis-plans.com/

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