AssuredSAN 4004 Storage Solutions From Dot Hill Provide Superior Performance, Reliability and Scalability to Post-Production Workflows

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Sept. 15, 2014 — IBC2014, Hall 6, Stand A.16 – Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq:HILL), a trusted supplier of innovative storage systems to the media and entertainment industry, announced today at the IBC symposium in Amsterdam that two leading post-production solution providers have certified Dot Hill AssuredSAN® 4004 storage for use with their workflow solutions.

Blackmagic Design, which creates the world's highest quality and most innovative post-production, film and broadcast technology solutions, has certified the Dot Hill AssuredSAN Series for use with its DaVinci Resolve 11 color correction and editing solution.

Tiger Technology, which designs, markets, and supports world-class innovative storage workflow management solutions, has certified Dot Hill AssuredSAN storage for use with its Tiger Series solutions.

Tiger Technology will be showcasing its Tiger Series workflow management solutions running on a Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4004 storage platform here at the show in Hall 7, Stand C.10. Robert Keske, Tiger Technology CEO, said, "We're thrilled to be working closely with Dot Hill and to certify its great high-performance storage with Tiger Series Shared Storage Workflow Solutions. The industry is hungry for alternatives to complex and expensive file-sharing products, and the certified Dot Hill – Tiger combination provides multi-user content-centric productions with a complete and easy project, workspace, user, and media management solution."

Joe Swanson, Dot Hill vice president of marketing and business development, said, "The AssuredSAN product line is a perfect match for M&E requirements, delivering predictable performance, exceptional reliability and scalability. We are pleased to be certified by Tiger Technology and Blackmagic Design, which further validates our unique ability to cost-effectively address high-end video workflow requirements including the ability to handle multiple streams of 4K video directly from our storage solutions."

Dot Hill's rock-solid, wicked-fast AssuredSAN arrays provide over half a petabyte of high-speed 16Gb Fibre Channel storage with 99.999 percent data availability that can be shared by multiple users for maximum efficiency and increased workflow productivity. Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4004 solutions are built on the company's proven and patented RAID architecture, which integrates performance-tuning and optimization of randomized sequential I/O for Media and Entertainment workloads.