Dot Hill Systems Corp, a leading provider of carrier-class information storage and storage area network (SAN) solutions, today demonstrates its technology leadership with the introduction of the SANnet Tower, a compact, complete SAN system in a self-supporting deskside enclosure. Developed for workgroup and department applications, the SANnet Tower simplifies SAN storage implementation and management by eliminating the requirement for external hubs and switches. This SAN solution from Dot Hill provides up to 1.8TB of storage in a deskside system with direct support for up to 16 servers. Offering high availability, full fabric and Fibre functionality and performance, the SANnet Tower is affordably priced -- beginning under $25,000

The SANnet Tower operates with all of today's popular operating systems, is simple to install, easy-to-use, and reduces operating costs by using less power, maintenance, and training than existing storage subsystems. Storage space requirements are also reduced as this extremely dense SAN solution provides 1.2TB of storage per square foot of floor space. In addition, all SANnet systems are highly modular and give storage users the ability to scale from small to large without changing hardware or software. As customers' storage needs grow, the SANnet Tower may be easily upgraded into a rack system.

"Dot Hill's carrier-class SAN solutions make information safe, easy to manage, and always available. The SANnet Tower system reduces total SAN storage operating costs while eliminating complexity and interoperability issues for the end-user," said James Lambert, chief executive officer of Dot Hill. "Last week we introduced the SANnet RAID Blade for web hosting, email server, and colocation applications which stores information in an ultra-thin (1U), highly dense, rack mountable system. Earlier this week, the availability of 180GB drives and 2GB cache memory upgrades was announced -- an ideal storage solution for customers who need to maximize storage capacity, density, and performance -- with the ability to scale up to 18TB in a single six-foot rack cabinet. The SANnet Tower completes the family of SAN solution products now available from Dot Hill."

All SANnet Tower models offer one or more RAID controllers and support up to 10 disk drives. Its powerful feature set includes 99.9998+ percent uptime, centralized storage management, load balancing, LUN masking, and dynamic LUN assignment. Customer relationship management, sales force automation, and document management are a few types of data-intensive operations that are well suited to the SANnet Tower profile.