Dot Hill Solutions Selected by CGG

Dot Hill Systems Corporation has signed an agreement with CGG SA, an integrated geoscience
company serving the global oil & gas industry.

Dot Hill’s AssuredSAN 4000 Series storage systems will be implemented in CGG’s
subsurface imaging centers and have been selected as part of the company’s
reference architecture. The Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4000 Series will house
geophysical data that CGG uses to develop models to help its oil & gas
customers locate oil reserves.

With a total workforce of over 9,800 in more than 70  locations worldwide,
CGG is an integrated geoscience company providing geological,
geophysical and reservoir capabilities to its broad base of customers, primarily
from the global oil and gas industry. Through its three complementary business
divisions of Equipment, Acquisition and Geology, and Geophysics & Reservoir
(GGR), CGG brings value across all aspects of natural resource exploration and
exploitation.

"Our collaboration with CGG expands
Dot Hill’s growing footprint in the oil and gas space," said Garrett
Wein, VP of OEM sales, Dot Hill. "This
is a key strategic vertical market for Dot Hill due to expanding opportunities
in both domestic and overseas energy exploration which will drive significant
growth in the demand for storage. Customers such as CGG require storage
solutions capable of delivering both fast random I/O and sequential I/O for
different imaging steps. The AssuredSAN 4000 Series was tested extensively for
use with CGG’s seismic information acquisition and analysis computing systems
and delivered exceptional results. Featuring 99.999% availability and
scalability to hundreds of TBs, the AssuredSAN 4000 Series is an
excellent fit for oil & gas applications."

The newest member of the AssuredSAN family, the 4000 Series,is designed with a powerful processor, and these systems
provide accelerated performance for sequential workloads, making them solutions
across vertical markets such as oil and gas, telecommunications, media and
entertainment, big data analytics and digital imaging.

"With more than 80 years of
experience, CGG strives to be the geoscience partner of choice and we are
always looking for better ways to help our customers optimise the discovery and
development of natural resources," said Laurent Clerc, VP subsurface imaging,
CGG. "We selected the Dot Hill
AssuredSAN 4000 Series as part of our reference architecture because of its
impressive randomised streaming performance. In our tests, the AssuredSAN 4000
Series streamed up to 128 randomised, simultaneous streams of seismic data,
which helps us to achieve faster results for our customers."