Chassis Plans to Offer Dot Hill Arrays

Dot Hill Systems Corp. 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 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 volume copy and AssuredSnap 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.