Dot Hill Expands Partnership With UNIADEX

Dot Hill Systems Corp. announced an expanded relationship with support and service provider UNIADEX Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nihon Unisys, Ltd., to deliver high-performance storage solutions to the Japanese market.

Under the terms of the new agreement, UNIADEX will market Dot Hill’s line of RAID storage solutions, based on its R/Evolution (Rapid Evolution) architecture, to resellers and end-users through its locations throughout Japan. Enabling customers to rapidly customize storage solutions through a configure-to-product model, Dot Hill’s product family includes the 2730 Fibre Channel offering, the 2330 iSCSI RAID array, the 2530 SAS RAID array, and Dot Hill’s 5730 midrange Fibre Channel solution.

Dot Hill and UNIADEX have enjoyed a long-time partnership. Since 2003, UNIADEX has provided maintenance support for Dot Hill’s family of SANnet II storage networking solutions, offering 24/7/365 comprehensive support for installation, preventive maintenance and spare parts management, under the guidance of highly trained and experienced engineers and support personnel from its ISO9001 certified facilities throughout the country.

"We’re proud to now offer Dot Hill’s innovative R/Evolution storage line," said Tsuneo Akai, senior corporate officer for UNIADEX. "UNIADEX continues to grow its storage solution business by providing high-performance, high-quality products to its partners and customer base, and we see the agreement with Dot Hill as key to reaching UNIADEX’S revenue goal of $40 million US by 2010."

"Dot Hill is pleased to continue its partnership with UNIADEX, which allows the company to provide the Japanese market with entry-level and midrange RAID offerings that deliver enterprise-class functionality combined with ease of management," said Dana Kammersgard, Dot Hill’s president and chief executive officer.