Dot Hill Offering New Partner Program Benefits

Dot Hill
Systems Corp. announced enhancements to its Connections Partner Program,
offering improved collaboration, new lead generation resources, and expanded
revenue opportunities for those partners.

Dot Hill’s
Connections Partner Program advancements primarily focus on adding field
resources, value-add programs and solutions based sales tools to the most
committed partners and rewarding those partners that have demonstrated their
loyalty; these partners have access to additional privileges such as amplified
professional service offerings, demand-generation toolkits, marketing support
and increased margin incentives. Alongside these additions are changes designed
to make it easier for all partners to do business with Dot Hill such as
streamlined channel pricing, as well as improved access to technical support
and services.

At the helm
of the new channel partner program is Brad Painter, a 24-year channel IT
veteran, who joined the company in July 2011 from Pillar Data Systems where he
served as vice president of worldwide channel sales. "Fortifying its channel commitment, Dot Hill’s partner program is more
focused than ever on building strong, mutually beneficial partnerships with its
authorized partners, initially in North America,"
said Painter. "While the Connections
Partner Program is open to all storage partners and offers attractive margins
and deal registrations, we plan to work more closely with focused partners to
drive incremental and profitable sales growth. We believe partners will welcome
our emphasis on partner profitability, collaboration and synergy."

"We are very impressed with the award-winning
storage technology Dot Hill offers, backed by a rich patent portfolio. Couple
that with key advancements to their partner program and it was an easy decision
to partner. The new Connections Partner Program is truly focused on helping us
be more profitable by bringing value to our sales process with support for our
marketing initiatives, real collaboration and closing tools," said Jim
Steinlage, president of Choice Solutions, LLC.

"We are pleased to establish a relationship with
Dot Hill Systems," stated John Bettenburg, vice president of North American
Systems International. "Dot Hill is
making sizable investments and increasing their commitment by adding inside
sales resources and lead generation programs to develop new business in the
midrange and enterprise computing markets where we excel in delivering best in
class solutions and service."

Dot Hill
Connections partners deliver storage solutions for a variety of applications
and vertical markets including virtualization, media and entertainment,
education, defense, government and oil & gas. Connections partners are
backed by Dot Hill’s dedicated customer services and sales organization. In
2011 the Dot Hill Connections Partner Program was named to CRN‘s 5-Star Partner
Programs Guide for the second consecutive year. In addition Dot Hill earned a spot
on Everything Channel‘s CRN Virtualization 100 list, which highlights the most
compelling virtualization solutions and vendors delivering best-in-class
products to meet the needs of the channel.