Dot Hill Signed OEM Agreement with A.T. Works of Japan

Dot Hill Systems Corp. has signed an OEM agreement with A.T. Works, Inc. of Japan. Under the terms of the agreement, A.T. Works will sell solutions based on Dot Hill’s iSN storage virtualization software and 3000 Series iSCSI-based storage arrays, integrated with AT Works’ servers.

Based in Toyama City, Toyama, Japan, A.T. Works manufactures and sells various IT products and provides Internet services and technical support for many of Japan’s largest Internet service providers (ISPs). Through its datacenter services for specialized servers, the company manages the largest server farm in Japan with 8,500 systems.

"We selected Dot Hill as our go-to-market partner because of its strong reputation for storage virtualization capabilities as well as high-quality, modular, storage solutions," said Hirokazu Nagai, vice president, A.T. Works. "Many of our ISP customers are moving aggressively to virtualized platforms. Dot Hill delivers the key technologies we need for high-performance storage networks and provides us with the ability to manage both SANs and NAS through a single, unified storage virtualization tool."

"Dot Hill’s vision of unifying storage through software management solutions has been well received in the OEM community," said Garrett Wein, vice president worldwide OEM sales, Dot Hill Systems. "As large Internet service providers such as A.T. Works look for ways to improve storage management to better serve their customers, they can turn to Dot Hill’s virtual storage software platform as a highly compelling solution with sophisticated features."

Based on a flexible virtualization engine, Dot Hill iSN solutions offer features such as thin provisioning, snapshots, replication, migration and storage tiering. Dot Hill iSN can provision both Fibre Channel, NAS and iSCSI protocols and present file and block services simultaneously while scaling up to 6 petabytes (6PB) of storage capacity. Dot Hill iSN software can be loaded onto standard x86 hardware servers and is readily integrated into existing environments, and is configurable to meet OEMs’ diverse requirements, enabling partners to create and market their own unique branded solutions.

Dot Hill 3000 and 2002 Series storage arrays are easily customized by partners and customers to meet varying performance, capacity, and other specific business requirements. Dot Hill 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. Dot Hill storage solutions scale to support up to 144 SAS, near-line SAS, SSD and SATA disk drives, totaling up to 192 terabytes of capacity based on today’s 2 TB disk drive capacities, and feature a 2U 12 or 24-drive rack-mount footprint.