Storage Trends

Dot Hill has been at the forefront of many storage technology transitions providing superior products and operational excellence to our customers through state-of-the-art engineering that allows the market for both entry-level and midrange storage systems to be addressed with a unified approach.

Changing Storage Protocols

The storage industry is experiencing a wave of protocol transitions with the evolution of parallel SCSI finding its footing in the form of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) alongside the network based Internet-SCSI (iSCSI). At the same time Fibre Channel, the mainstay of enterprise storage networking for the past decade, is receiving a speed jump to 8Gb plus an alternative Fibre Channel transport mechanism is on the horizon in the form of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Read the Storage Trends Brief.

Virtual RAID Technology - a new category of RAID solution

RAID is an essential technology that provides data protection to a multitude of business critical applications. With today’s multi-core servers reaching increasingly lower price points the market is calling for a high performance RAID solution at a compatible cost. Until now, the choice rested between hardware-controller based RAID solutions aimed at enterprise-class computing that could prove more expensive than entry server hardware, or poorly featured software-based RAID which is often tied to a particular hardware platform and fails to meet the demands of 24/7 business continuity. Virtual RAID technology establishes an entirely new category of RAID for Windows and Linux servers with features and performance to rival hardware-controller based RAID. Read the Virtual RAID Adapter Brief.