Dot Hill AssuredSAN Arrays Chosen by Acer Europe

Dot Hill Systems Corp. announced that its storage products have been selected by Acer Europe SA, a manufacturer and vendor of servers and storage, notebook and desktop PCs, LCD monitors, projectors, and smart phones and tablets.

Storage solutions based on Dot Hill’s AssuredSAN series will complement Acer’s Altos range of enterprise server solutions for corporate and SMB customers.

Dot Hill AssuredSAN series arrays in EMEA will be marketed by Acer as part of its solution offerings to HPC customers, SMB and corporate enterprises, government organizations and educational institutions.

"Acer is devoted to delivering IT products that improve usability and add value to customers needs. Acer’s selection of the Dot Hill AssuredSAN series is further validation of the platform’s ability to meet a wide range of customer requirements via support for all popular server interfaces, and efficient use of mixed SSD and HDD drives enabled through our automated real-time tiering technology," said Jim Jonez, senior director marketing at Dot Hill.

"Business customers need dependable storage solutions that complement our Altos Server line and deliver an exceptional price performance value proposition," said Jakob Olsen, VP, commercial products, Acer EMEA. "The Dot Hill AssuredSAN Series enables us to meet this need with a broad range of powerful storage solutions offering cost effective entry level arrays right through to enterprise real-time automated-tiering. By delivering highly modular storage solutions with a variety of integrated features, Dot Hill makes it easy for us to provide our diverse customer base with complete, turnkey solutions that fit their unique requirements."

Dot Hill has a storage heritage spanning over 28 years providing an understanding of the needs of both OEM and channel customers.

"Dot Hill has been extremely easy to work with, presenting an open and responsive business relationship committed to success. I am confident that the AssuredSAN platform will align seamlessly with the Acer brand values of quality, usability and performance, providing our customers with best-in-class storage technology," added Olsen.

AssuredSAN series storage arrays are customized by partners and customers to meet performance, capacity, and other specific business requirements. The storage arrays are equipped with a number of energy-saving features including Dot Hill’s patented EcoStor ‘green’ battery-free alternative for cache memory, drive spin-down and DC power options. They scale to support up to 192 SAS, near-line SAS and SSD disk drives, totaling up to 384TB of capacity based on 4TB disk drive capacities, and feature a compact 12 or 24-drive rack-mount footprint.