"Bell Microproducts is recognized as one of the world's top value-added providers specializing in turnkey programmes for storage products. Dot Hill's SANnet II and RIO Xtreme product lines helps us further provide for the unique requirements of our broad customer base", stated Phil Roussey, executive vice president of enterprise solutions for Bell Microproducts. "We look forward to working with Dot Hill in this newly expanded partnership and believe that the Dot Hill products will open up new opportunities for our customers."

Dot Hill's SANnet II FC and SATA storage solutions and the RIO Xtreme solutions offer integrated Switchless SAN technology that enables storage consolidation for up to 12 servers without switches, providing the benefits of a SAN configuration at a lower cost.

"Dot Hill's expanded relationship with Bell Microproducts is a strategic component of our sales and marketing plan going forward", stated Phil Davis, Dot Hill's senior vice president worldwide sales. "We look forward to working closely with Bell Microproducts to broaden the distribution of the SMB targeted SANnet II family and to tightly focus on the vertical markets to which the RIO Xtreme solutions are targeted. We believe that Bell Microproducts, one of the world's leading storage distributors, has both the expertise and customer base to help Dot Hill increase market share."

Bell Microproducts is featuring Dot Hill's recently introduced SANnet II SATA channel-friendly bundles for the Windows and Linux platforms. The SANnet II SATA provides high-speed Fibre Channel host connections and high-capacity serial ATA drive connections in a compact 2U (3.75 inches high), 12-drive enclosure. The pre-configured Switchless SAN solution bundles include a SANnet II SATA storage system with single or redundant RAID controller and are shipped with 4, 8 or 12 SATA drives providing capacities of 1.6, 3.2 or 4.8TB respectively. Dot Hill's easy to use SANscape storage management software for Windows or Linux is also included.

RIO Xtreme storage solutions are optimized for very high sequential bandwidth applications such as streaming audio/video, data acquisition and high performance computing. Built with enterprise-class fault tolerance, RIO Xtreme storage solutions deliver high availability with redundant, hot- swappable components. The RIO Xtreme storage solution comprises a very high- performance 1U RAID control head and a 2GB Fibre Channel (FC) 2U JBOD enclosure that expands to 28TB by adding additional 2U enclosures and drives.

The SANnet II family of storage solutions provides industry leading 99.9998+ percent uptime in compact, rack-optimized packages. SANnet II brings carrier-grade reliability and enterprise-class features to open systems platforms. The common modular architecture of the SANnet II family provides seamless scalability for future growth within storage networking and direct attached environments.